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almostnever

the dan brown code

May 23, 2006 23:14

In honor of The Da Vinci Code film, I urge everyone to check out these excellent posts on Language Log by Geoffrey Pullum regarding Dan Brown's prose "stylings", if you haven't read them yet.

The Dan Brown Code is the first, and additional links to more are at the bottom of that post. I especially like Learning the ropes in the trenches with Dan ( Read more... )

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almostnever May 24 2006, 06:38:43 UTC

Isn't it fabulous? I think my favorite part is where the curator sees his attacker "in silhouette" and then proceeds to describe the attacker down to the color of his pupils!

jubilancy May 24 2006, 20:50:02 UTC

Dude, if that happened in a high school workshop, the author would be flayed alive and fed to starving cats.

anatsuno May 24 2006, 06:41:02 UTC

heee, i remember those. Love them. *still radiating conempt danbrownwards omg*

almostnever May 24 2006, 07:05:03 UTC

I'd only read a couple of them before. The whole series is fun!

magnoliafires May 24 2006, 06:57:26 UTC

I keep trying to convince a(very intelligent, very literary) friend that those books are complete trash, but she never listens to me. *sighs* *sends her links to those pages*

magnoliafires May 24 2006, 07:02:35 UTC

I mean...

Genius female student, Meagan, gasped in horrified shock as it became re-illuminated in her studious mind that her bosom friend, startlingly intelligent Meite, had been sucked in, head over heels, into the unusual world of those ridiculously tragical novels.

almostnever May 24 2006, 07:03:56 UTC

Heheheheee! NICE!

magnoliafires May 24 2006, 07:05:08 UTC

Yaye, thanks! *grins*

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aprilkat May 24 2006, 15:04:17 UTC

Ha ha! Thanks for the links - they are funny, but seem to be true.

I am one of the few individuals who has never read Dan Brown. Last night my husband (another DB virgin) and I went to see the movie "The DaVinci Code" and came out speculating whether the clunky dialogue and unconvincing plot turns were the fault of the screenwriters or the author. (Obviously, it was both.)

westmoon May 24 2006, 16:43:02 UTC

I love these.

I winced and muttered my way through the book last year, and was extremely bitter about the praise heaped on Mr. Brown's head by the time I limped to the last page.

And just this weekend at a family party I bit my tongue when the topic turned to the book and movie ("The best book I've ever read!!!!" was the standard phrase). It really was NOT worth the aggravation of trying to argue otherwise.