Finished Reading 'Deception Point', by Dan Brown
It was a superb non-Robert Langdon novel from Dan Brown
I love reading thrillers, but in the last couple of years I rarely read more than two or three of them. Dan Brown has been one of my favourite thriller authors all along. I had read all of his books previously except Deception Point. Actually, this books is one of the only two books of Dan Brown, the other being Digital Fortress, which is not a part of the Robert Langdon series. I’d already read all of his Robert Langdon novels that came out until now and also Digital Fortress. But I always kept Deception Point in store for a later time whenever I would hit a bad reading slump and really crave for a book that would get me out of it. I’ve had multiple such slumps over the last decade but for some reason I never picked up this one. It just felt too valuable to use it off. There was always some other book at hand that would eventually inspire me and I would get on with it. But not this time. This time, I needed Dan Brown.
My recent readers-block has been a pain as I described in my previous post. I was also really craving a thriller read so much this time around and Deception Point sprang to mind on multiple occasions. So, after a lot of thinking and waiting, I went ahead and purchased the book and began reading it almost from the very next day.
I’m a slow reader, and the nice thing about that is when I’m reading a good book I end-up immersing myself in the story far more deeply, living with the characters and in those environments for a nice few weeks. This book too did that for me—I was walking around Washington DC with high-level government officials, including the president of the US and chilling around with a bunch of top scientists on an ice-sheet in Greenland, all of it while learning about a startling discovery that held the potential to change the world forever.
Picking up this book everyday for a few minutes here and there was a nice feeling after not being able to read much recently. And by the time I reached the last 200 pages or so, I was totally hooked. This weekend, I read for a few hours into the Saturday midnight until 1:45 AM and then continued where I left off right after getting out of bed on the following morning to finally finish off the novel before my day fully started. Apart from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None which I read a few months ago and loved it, I don’t remember any recent reads that gave me this feeling, not even Master of the Game, by Sidney Sheldon.
I read Deception Point in a paperback edition and it has one of the best font sizes. I love it when a book has a good font size, it really helps my reading. Some books, especially paperbacks, come with a tiny font which completely puts me off and takes the reading experience away from me. So, this one was very helpful that way too. And the icing on the cake was this paperback edition came with a full-page colour photo of the author on the inside-cover. I love it when a book has a nice large photo of the author on the inner cover page. Publishers rarely do this, but it’s really cool when they do. I think I’ll start collecting books with such big photos of my favourite authors.
Here is the photo of this one. It’s so cool, isn’t it!
