/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11544217]

Can we talk about renowned author Dan Brown?

[Anonymous No.11545808]

i use the most atrocious books I have the unfortune of owning as practical objects. A coaster, pedestal for my monitor, a stepladder for my cat, kindling for campfires, origami practice, propping chairs and/or tables and so on. I've never used one as toilet paper before, but I will if one day I find myself in a bind.

Anyway, most of them are by dan brown

[Anonymous No.11545838]

>>11544217
>Can we talk about renowned author Dan Brown?
"No"

[Anonymous No.11546034]

>>11544217
Deception Point wasn't THAT bad, but that's nearly all

[Anonymous No.11546091]

>>11544217
>sells millions of books
>way more that dostojerkski and any of the other authors /lit/ circle jerks about
>still ridiculed

you're all just jealous haters

[Anonymous No.11546239]

>>11546091
>literary value is determined by how much money it makes

[Anonymous No.11546314]

>>11546239
I agree, the moment it becomes popular we need to start pretending it was always shit.

[Anonymous No.11546319]

>>11546314
>literary value is determined by how much money it makes
it works both ways, why are you making me greentext you again

[Anonymous No.11546938]

>>11546314
But Dan Brown was always shit, anon. His prose is atrocious.

[Anonymous No.11546942]

>>11546091
>>11546314
Name one redeeming quality of Dan Brown's work. He lacks originality, style, and substance.

[Anonymous No.11546943]

>Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy wordsmith’s fiercest foes. The critics.

>Renowned author Dan Brown hated the critics. Ever since he had become one of the world’s top renowned authors they had made fun of him. They had mocked bestselling book The Da Vinci Code, successful novel Digital Fortress, popular tome Deception Point, money-spinning volume Angels & Demons and chart-topping work of narrative fiction The Lost Symbol.

This shit is pretty funny.

https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

[Anonymous No.11547043]

>>11546938
>His prose is atrocious.

People said that about Theodore Dreiser and James Fenimore Cooper, and now they're enshrined in the canon of great American literature. Deal with it: Dan Brown is going to live on as a classic in the mystery/thriller genre.

[Anonymous No.11547062]

Where does he get off charging $30 for his books?

[Anonymous No.11547101]

>>11547043
No one cares about Theodore Dreiser and you know it. The Last of the Mohicans is the only work of Fenimore's that's widely known/beloved and it was relentlessly mocked by Mark Twain.

[Anonymous No.11547155]

>>11547043
You know there are countless bestsellers who haven't withstood the test of time, right? Proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1910s

Over half of the stuff on that list has been completely forgotten. Take a look at the success of Robert W. Chambers as just one example. He had multiple best selling novels but nowadays the only work of his that's remembered at all is The King in Yellow and a few other short stories and none of that work sold anywhere near as much as his now forgotten romance schlock. Dan Brown will be extremely lucky if a century from now one of his works is fondly remembered.

[Anonymous No.11548294]

>>11545808