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Originally Posted by HarryT
To paraphrase someone I forget: Dan Brown is not an author whose books should be casually laid aside; they should be thrown with great force.

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The original quote is by Dorothy Parker: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." She was talking about
Atlas Shrugged, which I love, personally. The quote fits much better with Dan Brown.
What's harder to put down than Dan Brown?
Anything. I put down Dan Brown many, many times before putting him down for the last time in the middle of The Da Vinci Code. I couldn't make it through a single full book by Dan Brown. All the criticisms pointed out by the op are correct. He's a horrible writer, through and through. Give me Melville, give me Hawthorn, give me anyone with a bland story so long as he can
write. When did people stop caring about writing as an art form?