tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298362012480073528.post1993710357094960720..comments2022-11-05T15:17:23.337+00:00Comments on The Noughties 2000-2009: Dan Brown: beyond good and evil?Tim Footmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994870249790211481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298362012480073528.post-24259834851997573072009-09-25T15:43:29.228+01:002009-09-25T15:43:29.228+01:00I reckon it's Arthur Mullard and Hilda Baker.I reckon it's Arthur Mullard and Hilda Baker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298362012480073528.post-39327629659733890872009-09-23T15:12:43.259+01:002009-09-23T15:12:43.259+01:00I don't think it's jealousy. I hang out on...I don't think it's jealousy. I hang out on writing forums and wade through a fair amount of amateur writing littered with beginners' mistakes. Reading Dan Brown's work is similar, albeit with less spelling errors and a much better instinct for narrative structure. <br /><br />The musical equivalent, I reckon, is James Blunt.Fat Rolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374906684948810408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298362012480073528.post-40971056740293003842009-09-23T15:03:00.022+01:002009-09-23T15:03:00.022+01:00I loved the Da Vinci Code and can't wait to ha...I loved the Da Vinci Code and can't wait to have a crack at the sequel.<br />Brown's strength is his absolute command of story-telling and ability to pull the threads of a plot together brilliantly. <br />The wall of sneering intellectual snobbery is fuelled, quite obviously, by jealousy. <br />(Ok a "wall" can't be "fuelled but who gives a monkeys?)Roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09780409453528524865noreply@blogger.com