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[[Dan Brown]], [[Trope Namer]] of [[Dan Browned]], gets his own page due to the absolutely monstrous amount of the eponymous activity found in his myriad works. Due to the scrapping of the last page due to natter, ill-will, et. al., there ''is'' [[No Such Thing As Notability|such a thing as notability]]. Citations are done like the following:
* Blah Dan Brown Blah Blah [[Critical Research Failure]] Blah Blah [[Hollywood Style]] Blah. ''
As well, any thing about [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever|religious inaccuracies]] will not be represented on this page, due to a) [[The Bible]] being a work with wide interpretations. b) [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement]].
== [[Digital Fortress]] ==
* The depiction of Seville has been criticized by Spanish-speaking readers, among other things. ''
** This one was simply insulting - Brown portrayed the Spanish healthcare system as useless and incompetent - in fact, it is ranked 7th in the World by the WHO (for comparison, the USA's is 37th).
* The book states that the etymology of "sincerely" is a combination of two Latin works "sine" and "cera", meaning "without wax". A popular, but entirely wrong, urban legend.
* The book confuses how the number of bits in a key scales; specifically it states that a 64 bit key has twice as many combinations as a 32 bit key. It actually has 4,294,967,296 (2^32) times as many possibilities.
** The book also confuses the purpose of a public key with that of a private key.
* The atomic elements made to create the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were different (plutonium and uranium) and not just two different isotopes of uranium. That doesn't fit with the story of course...
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== [[Angels & Demons]] ==
* Improper use of the Italian language was noted by Italian readers, along with generally being wrong about things pertaining to Rome. ''{{smallcaps|[http://leggiamo.altervista.org/thriller_angeliedemoni.htm (Italian) Thriller Reviews]}}''
* Contrary to what the book claims, Anti-matter can't be used as a source of limitless energy due to it taking more energy than it produces. Someday, hopefully, but certainly not now. ''
** Not now, [[Perpetual Motion Machine|not ever]]. Energy does not work that way.
* No, CERN can't blow up the world whenever it wants like in the book. It doesn't have enough antimatter, for starters. ''
** Although a major plot device was that two scientists at CERN secretly developed a method for collecting bomb-level amounts of antimatter, and one was killed to get it. It was stated in the book that they could not achieve such levels until the characters discovered the fictional method.
* A news commentator says that Ventresca was elected pope by "Adoration" when the crowd cheered him after they thought he had saved Vatican City from the antimatter. First, the proper term is "Election by Acclamation". Second, although Election by Acclamation hadn't been used since 1676, it became impossible in 1996 by Papal decree. Third, Acclamation required a spontaneous unanimous proclamation by the electors present (not the crowd outside) that a person should be Pope. A crowd cheering somebody's name would not be sufficient. ''
** The film version has the Cardinals discussing electing the Camerlengo in this manner, since he wouldn't be eligible otherwise. Again, a requirement of Acclamation was spontaneity. As in, the electors had to proclaim the election ''without'' negotiation or consultation. This was based on the belief that the Holy Spirit moved the electors to declare that God had chosen the person.
** Also, unlike the film claims, anybody can be elected as pope, even a layman. (If a layman is elected, he has to be first ordained deacon, then priest, and then consecrated as bishop, after which he can take office.) ''
** In the novel, it was the "electors present", not only the crowd, that cheered: all the cardinals were moved by the crowd to chant, and in doing so, gave their consent. The other two points are valid, however.
* The book maintains that CERN created the Internet, which was created by the USA's Department of Defense's DARPA military technology research organization. CERN created the World Wide Web, which is not the same thing. This is exceptionally odd since Brown got it right in [[Digital Fortress]]. ''{{smallcaps|Pages 7 & 20–21 of Angels & Demons}}'', ''{{smallcaps|Niels Brügger's Web History (2010)}}''
== [[Deception Point]] ==
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