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Originally Posted by RWJ
Oh yes! Dan Brown novels fill this niche for me. They're execrable on a number of levels, but at the cottage a few years ago I went through all of his novels. They're amusing, but the prose is hammy and purple, the characters two dimensional when not one dimensional, the history is ghastly, and the basic premise is usually ridiculous. Terrible, but oddly not at all boring.
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Dan Brown - and for that matter, John Whatsisname, the lawyer who writes about lawyers - don't write novels. They write screenplays and disguise them as novels. I think the average length of a DB chapter is between two and three pages.