I am back after a long time.The last time I posted,I was in my home.Times have changed a lot since then.I am back in my college doing what I do best-procrastinating!I got my brand new Lenovo Y560 Laptop.(One of my relatives bought it for me from US for a damn cheap rate).Surprisingly,after a few weeks got net connection in my room with pretty decent bandwidth.Exams came and went-as they always do.
Well,last week I decided that I must make more 'constructive' use of my laptop.What about reading e books? I had a whole folder of about 7 GB filled with ebooks that I had never opened.And after some brooding,I did start reading an e-book -Dan Brown's digital fortress(hmm...did I say 'constructive use'?) and for over six hours it had me fixated at the end of which I realized the story looks familiar! It was a typical Dan Brown work-the unlikeliest person happens to be the person behind all the mess.I had the hunch all along that who would be that villain-and in the end I was right.After reading the novel I had one thought in my mind-was this novel a good one or a bad one?.And I couldn't decide!
There are a lot of literary purists in the world who argue that Dan Brown is the worst writer on the planet. Salman Rushdie once said about Da Vinci Code- "Do not start me on 'The Da Vinci Code,' A novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."Nice one Sir!.Actually, though Salman Rushdie was harsh he does have a point-Dan Brown's works are not the greatest works of literature.But still ,probably Dan Brown has outsold Salman Rushdie 10:1 ! That's the truth .That's what the figures say! In some way, Dan Brown's novels are like those TV series that I watch -you know that they are not the best work of art but you still watch them!Maybe its time for all those critics to accept the fact that people still want to read Dan Brown despite whatever they say.Dan Brown is a very successful novelist and we must respect him for that.There is simply no use judging his works-we know we will end up reading his novel!
