Dan Brown Books

jeeez are they written badly!

'he was like a man naked walking in to a pride of lions'
Do lions get randy at the sight of naked men?

It's also full of schoolboy text:

'and than it all went black'
'like he was hit by a truck'

Nerdy Crap
'the super-space cruiser could travel at mach 15'
'he got in to his Alfa Romeo, 156, twin spark sedan [power steering, central locking]' (I detect a hint of Mr Partridge)

bleh bleh

Rubbish.
(I'm looking forward to the ending though)

Have you only just noticed? I couldn't bear to read them.

I cheated and got the audiobook...

Dan brown ? as in the 'da vinci code' ?

Oh yes.

This bloke takes him apart.

I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. ...

Yeah- it's a shockingly written book but actually a compelling story. There are some things he gets right- the pace and the intrigue, but the language used to convey it- ugh! He's no Umberto Eco!

I liked the books myself. Have read pretty much all his novels and they are all similiarly fast-paced and full of cheeky turns.

Some people can point out various flaws in his writing style but then someone is bound too when Dan Brown has been so succesfull as he has - sounds like jealousy to me. You don't hear footballers commenting on other players games if they have a bad 90mins do you? Not to mention the fact that his publishing house would have been screaming for the finished script, already knowing how popular it would have been, so a few grammatical errors or dodgy phrases are par of the course in my eyes.

Everyone likes their own style of writing. My missus has the attention span of a lettuce so likes short chapters, sharp and packing a punch.. i am more of slow boiler so don't mind if a chapter is 20/30 pages long providing it isn't full of mindless drivel.

Originally Posted by mac99

Oh yes.

This bloke takes him apart.

Worst bit of davinci code? When he spends a whole chapter trying to build suspense over a five letter code with the clue 'Eve's Temptation" or something, all the while having the hero looking out over the oldest APPLE tree in england...

Tosh. Utter tosh. If I hadn't been on holiday and starved of beach reading material I would have burned the rubbish

It's quite funny really. The Da Vinci code was the first book of his to take off, all the others didn't do anywhere near as well, until the Code went ballistic We couldn't print enough of the stupid things