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Originally Posted by frui
I can fully understand the "high class"/"low class" conflict in this Dan Brown controversy, being a man used to devour both elite and pulp literature altogether, reading Shakespear and Sheldon at the same time. I do the same in music enjoyment. I like Bach, and I like Richard Clayderman.
This is not schizophrenia, and being Dr Jekyll and Hyde is quite a normal case for modern people.
Now I will talk about what is probably not normal in me, and that's the real reason why I give this post here: I grow more and more impatient with the "low class" literature I used to like. I can hardly finish any of them recently. Yesterday I started to read "The Day After Tomorrow". It has a great start. I was happily surprised. But soon it lost momentum as the others. I have to skip a page or two to get myself keep reading.
But the same cannot be said of Dan Brown! I re-read Angels and Demons a couple of days ago. I did not feel the same boredom as I read other pulp fictions. The elite faction here (which is dominant) will of course find this weird, yet the pulp faction must also feel it hard to understand, or even offended.
That's the very reason why I am desperately searching for a Dan Brown clone, now that he is the only pulp fiction writer who can satisfy me, yet he produces one book in 6 years. Give me another Dan Brown, please! I know this is a very low request, yet I now know this is the hardest request.
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Hi frui,
I know he's not a "great writer" by any stretch of the imagination, but I just love Dan Brown's books. Real "page turners"!
Have you read any of Jeffrey Deaver's books? He's an author I find equally compelling, especially his "Lincoln Rhyme" series, the first one of which is "The Bone Collector".