Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
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·February 2, 2025dlcarrier
citizenpaul
>I listen to a few hundred audio books a year while working.
What do you do that you can immerse yourself in novel and get work done at the same time? I want that job. I've never had a job that was mentally so untaxing that I could listen to a book at the same time.
zabzonk
Never really understood why these modern best-seller writers are so popular. It's not as if the text is even easy or enjoyable to read! At least with guys like Tom Clancy you got a load of military hardware stuff to get off on.
louthy
Genius comedian Stewart Lee likes to poke fun at Dan Brown…
quercusa
Unfortunately not available in the US.
quercusa
They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man.
Animats
It's been all downhill since "The Flight of the Old Dog".
vanderZwan
> the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses.
Think this is my favorite joke in the whole thing.
mperham
That’s amazing. Really nails his stilted prose.
null
I listen to a few hundred audio books a year while working. There seems to be no correlation between the quality of the writing and the fame of the book. As disheartening as it is that thousands of great novels are never recognized, it is also awkward that some percentage of awful novels sell well and need to be reviewed.
I don't think we should make fun of Dan Brown, or assume that all of his novels will be awful, but we should take his individual novels for what they are, and for every one I've read, they're squarely in so-bad-it's-good territory.
For anyone else who enjoys such novels, I highly recommend Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. There's also commentary on the novel by the creators of RiffTrax in episodes 71 through 77 of the 372 Pages podcast: https://372pages.com/ep-71-if-bizarre-foods-went-horny