Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown

[spinbaby]

This absolutely hysterical column is well worth reading:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10049454/Dont-make-fun-of-renowned-Dan-Brown.html

A sample:

The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

[rurallib]

1. Hilarious it is. And funny, too

“Think of all the money you’ve made,” recommended the literary agent. That was true too. The thriving ink-slinger’s wealth had allowed him to indulge his passion for great art. Among his proudest purchases were a specially commissioned landscape by acclaimed painter Vincent van Gogh and a signed first edition by revered scriptwriter William Shakespeare."

I have never read any Brown? Does he really write like that?

[Chan790]

3. "Yes" said the book nerd who reads too much posting on Democratic Underground. n/t

[NV Whino]

5. Save yourself

Don't read him.

[Wait Wut]

6. This ^

This is probably the only case where the movie is better than the book. The movie was awful. I think there may have been two. I saw one, read two. Regretted three.

I told my sister that his writing was aimed at grade schoolers pretending to be graduate schoolers.

The one fun result of his books, new conspiracy theories!!!

[hack89]

2. "The Newton Sudoku"

[olddots]

4. Yes but is he a climate change denier too ?

n.t.

[graywarrior]

7. Hilarious!