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Books are like wine. Given a selection of wine, connoisseurs will select wines that the average drinker won't. But their experience and expectations are very di
by lemonberry 2y ago
Books are like wine. Given a selection of wine, connoisseurs will select wines that the average drinker won't. But their experience and expectations are very different. Adventurous/curioust/openminded folks will cross the aisle and change their expectations. The rest will stay with their easy-to-drink wines or their complex.
I tried reading "The Da Vinci Code" and it felt like a was a bad version of Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum". But that's me. Most of my friends would choose "The Da Vinci Code". And I imagine Eco and Brown had very different goals for their books.
I did love Harry Potter and Hunger Games though! Not great works of literature, but they're super fun!
- michaelcampbell 2y agoInteresting; I've read them both and I can't really remember much of Eco's, but I do Brown's. I think I read The Da Vinci Code first though.
- lemonberry 2y agoIt's a been a really long time since I read "Foucault's Pendulum" and having never read "The Da Vinci Code" the similarities may have been projected onto them by me at the time. I probably wasn't as open minded back then either. Well, at least I hope I'm more open minded know.