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Originally Posted by Sparrow
As someone who is half way through 'The Turn of the Screw'; I would just like to say that Dan Brown is a better writer than Henry James (imho).
This is HJ in full flow:
"It produced in me, this figure, in the clear twilight, I remember, two
distinct gasps of emotion, which were, sharply, the shock of my first
and that of my second surprise. My second was a violent perception of
the mistake of my first: the man who met my eyes was not the person
I had precipitately supposed."
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It was written at a time when James wasn't able to type and was largely dictated as evident in the odd starts and stops in the grammar. You get used to it and doesn't really make him a bad writer.