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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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.  |
And I'm called an elitist?
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Originally Posted by frui
And I agree with you that he is no literary giant. He is nothing compared with James Joyce and Steinbeck. But he can give us fun, simple and straigh. Don't you think that's also a manifestation of talent?
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I think people's problem with Brown (me among them) is that he is lacking in the aesthetic/intellectual aspects of writing.
A good book should be 1) interesting enough to compel the reader to continue reading, 2) plainly enough written that the reader understands, and ideally 3) elegantly/cleverly enough phrased so as to provide what I would describe as "a literary experience"... a sort of "delight at clever words and lovely and pleasantly varied expressions".
It seems to me Dan Brown delivers well enough in 1) and 2), and is widely despised for neither being good nor giving a damn about 3).
I'm sometimes told "
EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN PREFERENCES". Maybe there's something to it, even when it's not about disliking PDF.
- Ahi