You can’t like everything you read.
The Beach by Alex Garland: Young guy bumming around southeast Asia falls in with a group of crazies on a hidden beach. His arrival causes problems, he mopes, he goes nuts in the jungle, some people die. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the insomnia-curing movie version that I forgot to take out of my Netflix queue after finishing the book. The novel version actually started pretty strong before falling apart and suddenly ending.
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown: I’ve really enjoyed Brown’s other books, especially Angels and Demons. In his latest, his hero Robert Langdon criss-crosses Washington DC, trying to solve a mystery involving the Freemasons. I was excited for this to come out, but disappointed that it felt so unoriginal after his other Langdon stories.
Gideon’s Sword by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: I love this writing duo, and look forward to every Pendergast novel they put out, so was looking forward to the launch of a new series by Preston and Child. This felt like a mashup of discarded ideas from their other series, and I won’t be reading the next Gideon book. Nothing original here, and none of the humor that I like from their other work.
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