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by psd1 1069 days ago
Personally, I think his storytelling is poor, but it's not the worst. 5th percentile for plotting, say. But he plumbs new depths with his prose.

I am not above reading trash, and you often have to accept crappy writing in genre fiction. My wife reads the trashiest pulp romance there is. But even considering the low-grade prose in our diet, Dan Brown's writing is worse by an order of magnitude.

I'd rather gargle diarrhoea than read his shit again.

I'd rather attend a school play.

I have ADHD, but I once spent a day looking at a wall rather than allow his tepid faeces into my person.

He passes the turing test: machines cannot write that badly. His word choice smells like burning tyres, his sentence structure is like a drunk driver in a car park. He's a phenomenon.

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so wait -- you're saying there's a chance you might read it?

Choose:

a) Dan Brown

b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVE (you must watch it all)