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Originally Posted by frui
I know, I know, he is crap, everybody with a taste says.
His characters are flat. His language is bland. His world view is shallow. His plot is absurd. He is greatly flawed.
But he has an absolute power to absorb you from the very beginning to the very end, even in his weakest opus like "Deception Point".
I read all genres of thrillers, from Tom Clancy, through Kathy Reichs, to John Grisham. Every one of them has some shining points, but you will feel bored most of the time. No one has the talent of Dan Brown to catch you tight in every page.
So I believe there are two factions of writers. One faction includes Dan Brown alone. The other faction has all the other writers.
I am not paranoid. I am not a die hard fan of Dan Brown. I just want some books I cannot put down. I just find this humble request harder and harder to fulfil.
Now, my learned fellow readers, educate me, correct me, please! Add someone I don't know to the Dan Brown faction I mentioned above. I'd be overjoyed if I knew he was not alone.
Thanks you.
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There are plenty of good writers out there who can write the pants off Dan Brown. Even mentioning his name makes me nauseous. He's the H1N1 of literature. He's the English Language equivalent of the colour beige. He writes with the comprehension of a twelve year old, and a not a particularly bright twelve year old at that. He's a McDonald's Happy Meal (and you're just as ironically unhappy after you've consumed his plastic-tasting McLiterature). He's the Alpha and Omega of crap. He's the pinnacle of a reading culture that treasures the mundane, the stupid and the downright inane. He's the failure of the modern publishing industry personified. He has become the destroyer of worlds.
This is a sentence written by Dan Brown:
The famous man looked at the red cup.
The next time someone says to me "But we need the publishing industry to filter out the crap, to make sure we have quality. Books aren't just released without editing and proofreading, don't you know?"
Well, the next time I hear someone say that, all I'm going to say is:
DAN BROWN.
And that will be answer enough.
