Whose writing is worse: Dan Brown's or LaHaye/Jenkins'?

Question

That's Dan "Da Vinci Code" Brown vs. Tim "Left Behind" LaHaye and Jerry B. "Buck" Jenkins. Whose wooden prose and execrable plotting is genuinely worse?

I'm not interested in their respective theologies unless it directly affects the quality of their writing.

Answer 1

That one is very easy. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is by far the worst. The sentences are excruciatingly painful to read. The second book is the worst, by far. It was, well, simply horrible. The characters are 1-dimensional. The dialog is so incredibly bad!! And these contrived emotions. Gak! It's like watching Jean Claude Van Damme trying to act! I couldn't even finish the second book and skipped to the 3rd (and stopped there).

Dan Brown's writing is at least readable. The prose itself is fine, even entertaining. The problem is that the plots have horribly contrived twists and the characters have unbelievable flashes of timely brilliance that no real character would ever have. But I don't feel like I'm in pain reading the book like Left Behind.

Answer 2

lets see dan browns e book changed into wonderful business enterprise for roughly a month. The bible isn't even counted anymore until eventually something out performs it quickly because it truly is been the bestselling e book because it all started being mass produced. So the data shows that the bible wins this one

Answer 3

I hear LaHaye's books sometimes come with a bible or tract or something attached. Brown's work sells well on its own merit. LaHaye's work, when the story is over, Bible or not, it is still fiction.

Answer 4

never read either of them

i do know a few atheists who liked the da vinci code but hated the movie

i even know a muslim who said the book was good

havent read it or seen the movie i do have it on dvd laying around here somewhere ill get to it one day

Answer 5

Dan Brown is a much better fiction writer,

Answer 6

all of those bible dudes and dudettes