Single women and The DaVinci Code: what gives?

[Fuji_Kitakyusho]

I wasn’t all that impressed by “The DaVinci Code”, but “Deception Point”, also by Dan Brown, I couldn’t put down.

[Mariemarie]

@Zjestika

Well, you’d get a flirty wink from me, for whatever that’s worth.

ZJ

Oops. Pardon me, Miss ZJ, I didn’t see you there. May I buy the next round for you and Mr. G?

[Antonius_Block]

@Waccoe

I guess it proves single women are satisfied by an intriguing beginning, a soggy middle and a weak ending, including a complete absence of climax.

Nice one, Waccoe. Welcome to the SDMB! Hope you decide to stick around…

[Misnomer]

@Fuji Kitakyusho

I wasn’t all that impressed by “The DaVinci Code”, but “Deception Point”, also by Dan Brown, I couldn’t put down.

I’m currently reading Deception Point.

I read Da Vinci Code in March (and yes, I’m a single woman), but I only got it so that I could talk about it with the (seemingly) hundreds of people who kept asking me if I’d read it yet. I didn’t expect to like it – I almost never read “the book everyone’s talking about” – but I wound up being highly entertained, and I liked the writing, so I read Angels & Demons as well. It was also entertaining, but EXACTLY the same story (just set in a different country).

I’m about halfway through Deception Point: so far, Brown is sticking with the “very attractive, highly-intelligent single woman winds up fleeing from bad guys with very attractive, highly-intelligent single man” thing, but I’m happy to discover that it isn’t the same story for yet a third time. And, of course, it’s well-written and entertaining.

From what I’ve heard/read, these three are his only decent books. So Deception Point is probably the last Dan Brown story I’ll read, unless someone recommends otherwise.

[Anaamika]

@jsgoddess

Woman on dating site: “Well, I don’t want a man who only watches football on television. I’d like someone who reads. Yeah! So, I’ll mention that I read. I’ll just put down the last book I read… hmm… I wonder what that was. Oh, The Sensual Pilgrimage, the one with Thor Hawkesflyte and Rowena Ravenhurst, when he abducted her as she was on a journey to the nunnery to escape from Baron von Darke! Um, maybe I don’t want to put that one down. Oh, I know. The DaVinci Code! Everyone’s heard of that one, and it doesn’t have anyone named Thor in it.”
It seems likely that people are picking it because it’s famous, popular, and they actually have read it. I’d say it probably isn’t indicative of the actual reading habits of more than half of American women.

Yeah, but what good is this? You’re still not getting a guy whose interests coincide with yours.

Myself, I’d be putting Philip K. Dick and Terry Pratchett. At least I could weed out the people who don’t read at all.

[wonky]

@Elenia28

Yeah, but what good is this? You’re still not getting a guy whose interests coincide with yours.

The same good people get when they say that they are of “average” build when they are 100 pounds overweight, or when they say they love walks on the beach when they really love watching reruns of Melrose Place. People aren’t necessarily honest, either with themselves or with others.