2009-10-02T11:37:33Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/ahistorical-fiction-and-why-dan-brown-s-books-are-so-populartag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/272/9302009-10-02T11:37:33ZStephan<p>My point exactly. He could have googled in on his cell phone!</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/272/9292009-10-02T11:08:54ZSursumCorda<p>Okay. A cryptologist who doesn't immediately recognize Fibonacci? That's enough to discourage me, even if he does have a cool name.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/272/9282009-10-02T04:47:05ZStephan<p>I'm not even sure you would enjoy the books. Brown often creates tension not by building a scenario where the most horrid consequence is extremely difficult to avoid, but by bringing a character to a new location, telling us that what she saw there would change her life forever, and then cutting away to another part of the story. Add to that a professor of cryptology who takes several pages to figure out where the sequence 1-1-2-3-5-8-13 etc. comes from, and you can understand how the book was less than satisfying - even if it had been historically accurate.</p>