Dan Brown saves the literary world, one cliché at a timeDan Brown may be the writer we love to bash (see his 20 worst sentences here!) but without him many other great writers would never be read. His books are like gateway drugs, says Christopher Scanlon.
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Dan Brown’s worst 20 sentences
To mark the release of Dan Brown’s latest, The Lost Symbol, Tom Chivers plucks the worst phrases from his oeuvre.
Can Oprah and Dan Brown save the publishing industry?
The recession-racked US publishing industry is hoping sales of Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol and the return of Oprah’s Book Club will be enough to carry them through the pre-Christmas period.
Philip Pullman: Dan Brown’s new novel is “flat, stunted and ugly”
Author Philip Pullman has laid into fellow writer Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol, labelling the characters “flat and two-dimensional” and the prose “stunted and ugly”. Ouch.
Why America loves Dan Brown
Polls reveal the growth of do-it-yourself spirituality in the US, says Ross Douthat. It’s a sentiment that Dan Brown taps brilliantly in Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code.
Understanding Dan Brown’s America
If you want to understand American religion, says Ross Douthat, you need to understand why so many people love Dan Brown.
Angels & Demons: like National Treasure goes to the Vatican
Another Robert Langdon movie and another bad hair day for Tom Hanks. Stay away from Angels & Demons, writes Luke Buckmaster.
