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Originally Posted by talaivan
There's a mistaken idea that great literature has to be less enjoyable -- or at least a lot harder to read -- than Dan Brown or similar. This may be true of Henry James and James Joyce, but anyone who reads the great Russian writers, esp. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, will find them a lot more enjoyable -- and easier to read -- than the likes of Dan Brown. It is intensely pleasurable to listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington -- actually a lot more so than listening to Michael Jackson, I think.
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And to all those talking about brevity and understandable language, why not read Hemingway? He single-handedly influenced the style of all popular fiction after his work was published. Read the Old Man and the Sea instead of Dan Brown's craptacular fiction. Read Steinbeck's moving and funny, Tortilla Flats. Read some short stories by Kelly Link. Read the phone book, but don't read Dan Brown, for the love of literature, please