Comments on: Reason #13: You Are Not Dan Brown

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By: Chapters: April 2009

Chapters: April 2009 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:58:00 +0000

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Mon, 11 May 2009 21:49:35 +0000

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By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:12:10 +0000

The visualization here had me ROFLMAO. Prospective novelists take note, if you can't use words to create a picture in someone else's that arouses an emotion, STOP WRITING. Sorry you just don't have the talent.

By: Dan Starr

Dan Starr — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:30:27 +0000

Meanwhile, Malcolm Gladwell’s just scored a hit with “Outliers,” a nonfiction book with the premise that most spectacular successes are the result of a little ambition coupled with a lot of dumb luck. I don’t know if he mentions Dan Brown, but TDVC seems like another example–Brown’s fourth cryptogeek techno-thriller, fortuitously arriving at a time when the reading public wanted to buy cryptogeek techno-thrillers. Of course, Gladwell’s own success with “Outliers” is itself an example of this principle–the market is ready for a book that states the obvious point that it’s better to be lucky than good.

And guess what–none of us are Malcolm Gladwell any more than we’re Dan Brown.

By: Petronius Rakehell III

Petronius Rakehell III — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:44:20 +0000

I got to the end of chapter 1 of “Angels & Demons” and thought: “Wow, what crap!” I enjoy reading pulp, but I at least expect it to be semi-well-written. There’s a difference between great pulp fiction and utter tripe.

By: Destiny

Destiny — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:33:53 +0000

Betsy-

Or it could just be that anyone with half a brain thinks he’s crap. You do you realise you just admitted you like all his books even though they’re the same, right? Why would anyone in their right mind read the same plot over and over and over- nevermind, don’t answer that.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:54:48 +0000

Wow. That is a whole lot of bitterness. I’m assuming most of the people who comment on this are writers or like to call themselves so. I actually found this as I was searching to see if Brown came out with a new book. I’ve read all of his and, although they are pretty much they same, I enjoyed all of them. I think this anger for him comes from your own envy. The book may be as horrible as you say it is, but he had a great idea and made a buck. As much as you may hate to hear this, most people are not that introspective, cultured, “deep” or ….smart. If you all are writers, then you may as well accept, as with most art, that no one will ever value your work as it should be. All artists must accept this. Dan Brown is commercial. It is comparable to theatre vs. film. I must say, even if he used a “crazy” idea about Jesus that someone else came up with, I thought the puzzles were clever. People like puzzles. It’s entertainment.

By: Pequod

Pequod — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:58:28 +0000

I Love you also!

And its “as if you read my mind”..I was sitting here NOT smearing my privates with peanut butter and thinking..[picture little stars going round in a circle above my head] “Wow! What if I wrote a book that got as big as TDVC!!! They will say ‘Pequod is the next Dan Brown’!!!!”

And then…I read your reason 101..

The stars crashed around my shoulders making THE EXACT PATTERN LIKE IN THE BOOK IN THE LOUVRE!

with NEW HOPE I decided to write that book anyway..in PEQUODS book Jesus is Bi and has a threesome with paul and Mary, Mary has a kid, JC is found out, decides to “come out of the manger” , and comes out in favor of same sex unions, the Church FRIKKIN knows this and has been HIDING it, and ALL of this is discovered in super secret RUNES in works by RAFAEL and protected by the Knights Templar who secrectly run Microsoft
Bill Gates is JC’s descendant..of course I cant reveal the REST because Danny might STEAL it..but I will give one last ’spoiler’..JC , after “coming out” goes into fashion
and puts out a new line called ‘Revelations’ a daringly ‘naughty’ line..of course he gets crucified in the end but leaves a relic “The Briefs of Turin” which are stained by JC’s second coming.

Aur Revoir

By: sazettel - The Davinci Code -- Day 4

sazettel - The Davinci Code -- Day 4 — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:12:07 +0000

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