Thread: Please give a writer harder to put down than Dan Brown
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:55 AM   #34
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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).

That's a nice way to sum it up. Sir Terry Pratchett excels at all three!

EDIT: Hey Wario! We were thinking of the same thing at the same time! Get Out of My Head!!!
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