Dan Brown worst writer EVER!

[J. Falcon]

Seriously, if you think this guy is a good writer you have never read a good book in your life. I thought DVC was laughable (I couldn't even finish it, that's how bad it was, and I almost always finish a book once I am at least halfway through). Someone recently gave me Angels and Demons and it is somehow even worse. Pathetic writing style, cardboard characters, James Bond type near death escapes, impluasible plot turns, inaccurate facts. OMG, is our society that dumbed down that we consider Dan Brown evem a decemt writer?

/rant.


BTW, the movies are just as fucking bad.

[minddust]

reading books?

WUT

[The Duck]

I agree, could not even get though the da vinci code.

[lazycash]

Worse than fatfoo?

[Sly]

Originally Posted by lazycash

Worse than fatfoo?

I'm beginning to see a trend.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by lazycash

Worse than fatfoo?

I should have said Worst Bestt Selling Author Ever.

[CosmicTang]

I can't disagree with a single word you wrote J.Falcon. Except that I did finish the books.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by CosmicTang

I can't disagree with a single word you wrote J.Falcon. Except that I did finish the books.

It must have been torture.

[CosmicTang]

Originally Posted by J. Falcon

It must have been torture.

I wanted to see just how bad it could get. I picked up the DVC because so many people were raving about it and told me I just had to read it. I'll admit, the subject matter was intriguing (although not original). But the actual writing was putrid. The dialogue and exposition was so bad I was laughing out loud at parts I shouldn't have been.

I read A&D out of morbid curiosity. Again, the subject matter intrigued me, but when I got to the last 1/4 of the book I was rolling my eyes and sighing. I've never read another word he's written and won't. He is absolutely the worst writer I've come across. DVC could have been a spellbinder if he had any writing chops at all. It's a shame that subject matter that tends to intrigue and fascinate people wound up in the hands of such a hack.

[scuba steve]

dan brown wrote one good book then copied it to 5 others. same formula, same shit

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

dan brown wrote one good book then copied it to 5 others. same formula, same shit

Which good book did he write? DVC and Angels and Demons are absolute shit. I can't imagine this guy writing anything good.

[nickutis]

Well seems like you disagree with 90% of population then. I found davinci code and A&D pretty good books, easy read to relax your brains from work.

Alltough his last book, The Lost Symbol was pretty shitty in comparison to his first books

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by CosmicTang

DVC could have been a spellbinder if he had any writing chops at all. It's a shame that subject matter that tends to intrigue and fascinate people wound up in the hands of such a hack.

If you want to read an excellent book on the same subject, written decades ago by a true master and professional in his field, for people who actually like to think when they read, pick up Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It isn't an easy read by any stretch of the imagination, but much more fulfilling and complex.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by nickutis

Well seems like you disagree with 90% of population then.

I doubt 90% of the population think Dan Brown is a good writer. But even if they did it would just work towards proving my point. Fatfoo's erotic stories are better written.

[seeandsee]

rantssssssssss

[Daddy Big Nuts]

Originally Posted by nickutis

Well seems like you disagree with 90% of population then. I found davinci code and A&D pretty good books, easy read to relax your brains from work.

Alltough his last book, The Lost Symbol was pretty shitty in comparison to his first books

I agree on all accounts......

[ottopottomouse]

I've not read any of his books but I thought Angels and Demons was a reasonable film.

edit// and if his books are worse than fatfoo's erotic stories how on earth did they even get published?

[Quentin]

I don't know.... ever read anything by L. Ron Hubbard? I think he could probably give Brown a run for his money re: being the worst writer among best sellers.

For a good book that covers a complex construct along the lines of what Brown was shooting for in his work, give New York Trilogy by Paul Auster a shot. The first story in that, City of Glass, is my favorite. It combines the device of an unreliable narrator (one of Herman Melville's favorite tricks) with an exploration of the nature of identity, and the relationship between perception, knowledge, language and sanity.

Auster is a great line-by-line writer, but what really gets me is the depth of the world he creates in stories like City of Glass. You have to do some serious thinking/planning, and probably a hell of a lot of research, just to conceive of a story like that in the first place, much less to execute it in a way that is intellectually compelling and viscerally entertaining at the same time.

[Manowar]

he made a hell of a lot of cash from it

[WebairMetz]

All writers are different and so are their styles. I enjoyed reading his books but wouldn't say he was a great writer. On the other hand, books like The Stand are really excellent reads. I happen to really enjoy the Dark Tower Series...and well Ken Follet writes a damn good book. Ever read The Key To Rebecca? I would suggest that for sure. http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliogra...o_rebecca.html

How about Life Of Pi by Yann Martel? Some people absolutely hate the book - while I enjoyed it.

[mayabong]

Anything that makes christians go nuts makes me happy.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by WebairMetz

All writers are different and so are their styles. I enjoyed reading his books but wouldn't say he was a great writer. On the other hand, books like The Stand are really excellent reads. I happen to really enjoy the Dark Tower Series...

Sorry but I think Stephen King is another horrible writer, though not nearly as bad as Dan Brown. His writing style isn't bad, it's just that 90% of his stories are dumb. I have enjoyed very few of his books (I think the only ones I liked were Dolores Clairborne, Hearts in Atlantis and Needful Things). To anyone who ever read The Shining, it is the only movie that I would say is better than the book, but that is mainly due to Stanley Kubrick masterful directring.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by mayabong

Anything that makes christians go nuts makes me happy.

That's probably the only reason why his books sell like they do. Because people think they are reading something new and controversial, and that they are picking up valuable information and cluture, inside an "entertaining" story.

[AFSC]

I couldnt finish Angels or Davinci, HORRIBLE reads!!

[sitesurfer70]

I love the movie stepbrothers.....a very dumb movie that made me laugh a lot....

[CYF]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

dan brown wrote one good book then copied it to 5 others. same formula, same shit

glad that I'm not the only one that thought all his books are the same

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by CYF

glad that I'm not the only one that thought all his books are the same

I would still like to hear which was the good book he wrote.

[CYF]

Originally Posted by J. Falcon

I would still like to hear which was the good book he wrote.

I read Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons, I didn't think either was good

[kaori]

yeah... read all his books... they killed some time, but they were by no means terrific... I think they were so well liked, because they were read by people not used to reading!

[The Sultan Of Smut]

I listened to the book and it rocked!

[Darkland]

Okay... then let us hear who you think IS a good writer. And don't reach into the old well used grab bag of classical writers either. Everyone already knows they are good.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by Darkland

Okay... then let us hear who you think IS a good writer. And don't reach into the old well used grab bag of classical writers either. Everyone already knows they are good.

John Le Carre is a masterful writer (Shakespeare compared to Brown), one of my all time favorites. He still puts out good novels that are entertainng, but subtle. But they aren't "easy to read" and "relax the brain" like someone else put it.

Umberto Eco and Gore Vidal are two other contemporary writers I enjoy. Dan Brown writes for people too lazy to read real literature. He makes John Grisham sound like Faulkner.

[Agent 488]

pretty bad but was able to finish the book at least.

[izzynew]

The Davinci Code is a dreadful book. The plot was copied almost verbatum from academic texts and the structure of the book was very annoying.
But I finished reading it. I had a long flight delay and there was nothing much else to do

I've read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and it's a great and challenging read.
I discovered Eco when I read The Name Of The Rose. Great book too, and the film wasn't too bad.

Stephen King I read as a kid and thought The Shining was ok, but he has really gone downhill since he came off the coke.

[Tulku]

I think "Digital Fortress" is good ..
I don't like the others..

[SGS]

Dan Brown = Very good at hype.

[Raf1]

the worse writer has got to be fatfoo, lol

[Brujah]

You need to stop talking shit about Stephen King. That's just going too far.

[ottopottomouse]

Originally Posted by Darkland

Okay... then let us hear who you think IS a good writer. And don't reach into the old well used grab bag of classical writers either. Everyone already knows they are good.

Last book I can remember reading and thinking it was good was Archangel by Robert Harris.

[LoveSandra]

Originally Posted by lazycash

Worse than fatfoo?

[smax]

Question -

Originally Posted by J. Falcon

OMG, is our society that dumbed down that we consider Dan Brown even a decent writer?

Answer-

Originally Posted by nickutis

Well seems like you disagree with 90% of population then. I found davinci code and A&D pretty good books, easy read to relax your brains from work.

Alltough his last book, The Lost Symbol was pretty shitty in comparison to his first books

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by izzynew

The Davinci Code is a dreadful book. The plot was copied almost verbatum from academic texts and the structure of the book was very annoying.
But I finished reading it. I had a long flight delay and there was nothing much else to do

I've read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and it's a great and challenging read.
I discovered Eco when I read The Name Of The Rose. Great book too, and the film wasn't too bad.

Stephen King I read as a kid and thought The Shining was ok, but he has really gone downhill since he came off the coke.

Seems like you and I agree on almost everything. I also loved The Name of the Rose, it's actually one of my all time favorite books.

[MadisonMadness]

agree on the dan brown comments that he is a dreadful writer...but america loves him...its the need to not think that helps. i read dv code all the way through and found that, for a thriller, it wasn't very thrilling. but i did enjoy his historic references to religion and its inner workings. but you had to wade through all that crap writing to get to it. on a+d, i read the whole book on a flight from europe (amazed at the wretched prose) and had two pages to go when the plane landed. i've yet to finish it....just didn't care enough about the characters....and couldn't bear two more pages of his crap. haven't seen the movies.

[CosmicTang]

I'll be checking out Foucault's Pendulum.

Stephen King was good when I was a kid. Ditto Tom Clancy. I would be bored to tears by them now.

Kurt Vonnegut has been my all time fave author. And 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez is my fave book.

I just picked up Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace that I'm anxious to start.

[J. Falcon]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this.