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11368085 No.11368085 [Reply] [Original]

Is he one of the greatest storytellers of all time?

He is not great at prose like Tolstoy or Joyce, but he is vastly superior to them when it comes to storytelling.

>> No.11368108

>>11368085
What is great story telling?

>> No.11368128

>>11368085

brown has his own weird, often funny prose style, that's the main selling point for me

>> No.11368147

>>11368085
No, he isn't. He's just easier, like most popular writers.

>> No.11368261

>>11368108
Hard to describe, I would say engaging plot and having dynamic control of the pace over the course of the novel.

>>11368128
I agree but 18 year old prose autists like >>11368147 cannot imagine reading pre-approved stylists.

>> No.11368266

>>11368261
*cannot imagine reading anything other than pre-approved stylists

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>> No.11368350

>>11368261
>having dynamic control of the pace over the course of the novel
yes this is the main thing that dan brown is actually good at. in the da vinci code, the chapters are only 2-4 pages, almost every one ends on a cliffhanger, there are always 2-3 story threads progressing at any time.
when the book was massive i read the whole thing on one long haul flight just to see what the fuss was about. the writing and the plot and utter bollocks of course, but i was never bored reading it.

>> No.11368410

>>11368085

>vast

I already feel the vastness spreading and echoing through eternity