Who else thinks Dan Brown is a terrible writer?

Question

Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code were both good thrillers but they weren't worth the hype.

Answer 1

Thank God someone else! I think he is a talentless hack! HATED "DaVinci Code", it was repetitve and poorly written....you are not the only one.
The best description I have heard is he is "literature for people who don't really read."

Answer 2

Me. I think Da Vinci Code is pretty good, but Angels and Demons, Digital something (I forgot the title), Deception Point are horrible. Oh Gosh, especially Deception Point,it's the worst book ever written on earth. Dan Brown is terrible!

Answer 3

I wouldn't say Brown is "terrible," per se, but he definitely does not deserve to go down in the stacks of great literature.

Brown writes blockbuster movies, not life-changing, introspective glances at the Self. I will give Brown this: he is a good researcher and should probably get into the business of writing movies.

I would basically classify Brown with King, Crichton, Grisham, and others in the field of writing mass-printed, mass-purchased books. This is not an insult to Brown, because I have to respect the fact that he wrote a poorly-written action/mystery book that nearly everyone liked. And it is tough to please everyone. I just don't think it's necessarily the best indicator of a good writer.

Answer 4

Not me! I accept his books as fiction and am highly entertained by his plots. I think he is a good contemporary fiction author. I do think too much hype has accompanied his writing career. Many of those who complain about him probably just need to get a job and think of others for a few hours a day rather than searching for personal offense in a tale of well-written fiction.

Answer 5

For his genre, he's a good writer. He's not Norman Mailer or Phillip Roth, but his writing for his theology mystery genre is quite good. He writes terse sentences that makes the story flow easily, he develops two dimensional simple characters, and has a heart pounding plot line. In other words, he's a commerical fiction writer, and quite entertaining. For his genre one only needs to be entertaining to write well.

Answer 6

His writing is atrocious. The fact that he insists that his information for the DaVinci Code was all historically true is not only disingenuous but an outright lie. Book critics who know much more than I about writing , metaphors, sentence structuring regard him as a joke.

Answer 7

Nothing he does is worth the hype. Just goes to show that almost anyone can get published if you're controversial enough.

Answer 8

Haven't read either- but if someone's books are just so-so or good,doesn't mean they are terrible..I agree that there was a lot of "hyping" up that occurred...

Answer 9

I can think of many other authors who are far worse... how about Danielle Steele to start...

Answer 10

I don't think his writing is bad-- I just don't like the message they send.