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Ive read both books, and Angels and Demons is the sequel to the Da Vinci Code...not the prequel.

Don't worry the English languish will survive but Dan Brown still isn't my favorite author not that I have seen very much of what you are talking about I read the Da vinci code in Swedish but when I read angles and demons in English I did notice a few things so a tip if you can't stand his wrongs read it in a different languish

If you think about it, Shakespeare was the "bane of the English language" at that time. He used words incorrectly (nouns as verbs; "I raccooned him," for example), screwed up English syntax for the sake of his iambic pentameter, and so much more.

But hey. It's a risk you gotta take for writing, eh? xd

Dan Brown is definitely not the pinnacle of fine English literature, but his escapist fiction makes for entertaining and easy-to-follow novels when you read them in different languages you're trying to learn. Haha.

Hm, he's definitely not like a great author, but sometimes I just want to read something quick for the entertainment. For example, Twilight was a horrible, horrible book, but to be honest I had a good time reading it. (Maybe because it's like a shoujo manga?) I found so many mistakes... but I wasn't reading it for a good read, I just wanted to be entertained.

Kind of like when a friend makes a stupid joke, but you still laugh and get the amusement, so you appreciate the joke.

He's not just the bane of the English language, he's the bane of science. It really wouldn't matter, except that Wikipedia is way more accurate. Check out what I had to do for my bio class (I got 100% on this, might I add...I don't remember which Dan Brown book it's from though):

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Ming fingered his bow tie. “My paleontologic speciality is extinct Arthropoda and Mygalomorphae (This isn’t needed. Mygalomorphae is a group within the phylum Arthropoda, making this statement redundant). Obviously the most impressive characteristic of the organism is-“

“-is that it’s from another friggin’ planet!” Corky interjected.

Ming scowled and cleared his throat. “The most impressive characteristic of this organism is that it fits perfectly into our Darwinian Linnaean (Linnaeus first classified organisms, not Darwin.) system of terrestrial taxonomy and classification.”

Rachel glanced up. They can classify this thing? “You mean kingdom, phylum, species, that sort of thing?”

“Exactly,” Ming said. “This species, if found on earth, would be classified as the order Isopoda and would fall into a class suborder (Class doesn’t come after order, and all woodlice are clumped in suborder Oniscidea.) with about two thousand 3,500 (There are 3,500 species in suborder Oniscidea, not 2,000.) species of lice woodlice (Lice are insects; woodlice are isopods.).”

“Lice Woodlice?” she said. “But it’s huge.”

“Taxonomy is not always (It can be, though.) size specific. House cats and tigers are related. Classification is about physiology evolutionary relationships. This species is clearly a louse woodlouse: It has a flattened body, seven pairs of legs, and a reproductive pouch identical in structure to wood lice, (The species being talked about is a woodlouse so comparing it to woodlice is redundant.) pill bugs, beach hoppers, (Beach hoppers are in the order Amphipoda, not Isopoda. Therefore, comparing the species to beach hoppers does not prove that it’s a woodlouse.) sow bugs, and gribbles (Gribbles, such as the species in genus Limnoria, are in the suborder Flabellifera, not Oniscidea. Therefore, comparing the species to gribbles does not prove that it’s a woodlouse.). The other fossils clearly reveal more specialized-”

“Other fossils?”

Ming glanced at Corky and Tolland. “She doesn’t know?”

Tolland shook his head.

Ming’s face brightened instantly. “Ms. Sexton, you – haven’t heard the good part yet.”

“There are more fossils,” Corky interjected, clearly trying to steal Ming’s thunder. “Lots more.” Corky scurried over to a large manila envelope and retrieved a folded sheet of oversized paper. He spread it out on the desk in front of Rachel. “After we drilled some cores, we dropped an x-ray camera down. This is a graphic rendering of the cross section.”

Rachel looked at the x-ray printout on the table, and immediately had to sit down. The three-dimensional cross section of the meteorite was packed with dozens of these bugs.

“Paleolithic records,” Ming said, “are usually found in heavy concentrations. Often times, mud slides trap organisms en masse, covering nests or entire communities.”

Corky grinned. “We think the collection in the meteorite represents a nest.” He pointed to one of the bugs on the printout. “And there’s mommy.”

Rachel looked at the specimen in question, and her jaw dropped. The bug looked to be about two feet long.

“Big-a** louse woodlouse, eh?” Corky said.

Rachel nodded, dumbstruck, as she pictured lice woodlice the size of bread loaves wandering around on some distant planet.

“On earth today (Insects were huge 300 million years ago.),” Ming said, “our bugs insects stay relatively small because gravity their method of gas exchange keeps them in check. They can’t grow larger than their exoskeletons tracheal systems can support. However, on a planet with diminished gravity increased levels of oxygen, insects could evolve to much greater dimensions. Woodlice are not insects, though, and use gills instead of trachea. Therefore, they can become large on earth. In fact, there are huge isopods found in the ocean.”

“Imagine swatting mosquitoes the size of condors,” Corky joked, taking the core sample from Rachel and slipping it into his pocket.

He's adorable~! :]