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Originally Posted by legion
My Brown writes fiction. He writes very good, very entertaining fiction. I know plenty of religious people (like my FIL) that enjoy his novels because they realize they are reading some very complicated, often historically-based fiction. It irritates me to no end when people (either for or against) try to take his novels as "fact". Now, I understand that Mr. Brown is often intentionally evasive about the "truth" in his novels. I see this as nothing more than a clever marketing ploy, that works very well.
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Counterpoint...he's not making these stories up, he's popularizing theories and ideas that have been around, sometimes for centuries. He then adds lots of panache and characters and all of that, but the basic ideas have some legs
