DaVinci Overload
If I see one more copy of Dan Brown’s ‘The DaVinci Code’ I’ll scream. I must have seen at least 150 people reading it on the metro in the past three months. I saw three today alone.
It’s not a good book (I admit it, I read it - but only because a friend gave it to me). The idea is very interesting and is enough to get you started but the promises of intellectual intrigue and serious secret stuff are quickly broken as the whole thing turns into a tarted-up car chase complete with soap opera ending.
So what keeps people reading it? Well, I think the secret is that the chapters are so short. There are 105 chapters in 450 pages and some of them are less than a page. This keeps you turning the page. You know it’s rubbish but what harm can one more chapter do, it’s only an iddy-biddy 3 pages.
I guess this really is writing for the attention span of the MTV generation.
Mark Waters marked time at 6:39 pm on June 9th, 2004 .
