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The Book Of The Dead

DavidLeblond

DavidLeblond

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I was just reading the latest book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Book of the Dead, when I came across this paragraph:

"She plugged in her laptop and booted it up. At the insistence of her husband, Bill, she had recently switched from a PC to a Mac, and now the boot-up process took a tenth the time--zero to sixty in 8.9 seconds instead of two and a half plodding minutes. It had been like trading up from a Ford Fiesta to a Mercedes SL. As she watched the Apple logo appear, she thought that at least one thing in her life was going right."
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I've always loved their books, now I have one more thing to like about them!!
 
*shrug* To each his own, I guess. I love their books, they're all very entertaining. I guess the writing isn't the best in the world, but hey look at Dan Brown... he writes horribly and sells millions. (And his first three books are pretty entertaining as well.)
 
DavidLeblond said:
*shrug* To each his own, I guess. I love their books, they're all very entertaining. I guess the writing isn't the best in the world, but hey look at Dan Brown... he writes horribly and sells millions. (And his first three books are pretty entertaining as well.)
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Well, I don't read Dan Brown, either.

"It was a dark and stormy night..."
 
clayj said:
Ugh. That is such horribly clichéd writing. It sounds like the author's fishing for a free car from Mercedes or a free computer from Apple.
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Cliche indeed.

Nice to see even the invented are happy with their Macs, though.
 
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