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Originally Posted by corroonb
Also Dan Brown and JK Rowling have an awful lot in common....
Neither can write.
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Hm....
Actually, Rowling can tell a good (albeit formulaic) story in perfectly adequate prose.
Dan Brown can't.
After reading Brown, I felt I had to take a shower: the writing is at first grade level, his historical research is about the same, and his character development is of the cutout variety. To boot, his appears to assume, that his audience consists of people, whose IQ is generally below 70.
At the time I read the Da Vinci Code, it seemed to me, that Dan Brown had read the Foucault's Pendulum, and decided to come up with something in the same vein, but much, much dumbed down, to take advantage of the religious revival going on in the US, and beyond. (Come to think of it, Angels & Demons seems to be borrowing from The Name Of The Rose.)
My guess is, that people will still read Harry Potter a couple of generations from now, while Dan Brown will be buried deep in the pulp fiction heap.