Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown

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It must be awful to be as popular and successful as Dan Brown.
 
I know that it’s an old article, but I lost half a cup of coffee to the line, “…flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in.”
 
Meow.

Indeed, DB is laughing all the way to the bank.

Write something that people like spending time, discretionary money, and eye-strength on more than the output of his mind, and you would have something to burn on.

Indeed, getting burnt on by the small minded proves that you are somebody.

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It’s sad that this man’s potboiler writings are passed off as important literature to an unsophisticated public and made into movies by Hollywood.
 
Dwyer said:
It’s sad that this man’s potboiler writings are passed off as important literature to an unsophisticated public and made into movies by Hollywood.
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Well people do like a good mystery. And his stories, while not the best written, are at least interestingly presented mystery stories. Often with subjects the popular culture likes to imagine are more mysterious then the reality might be. Such as the Vatican, the Illuminati, Christ having a family, The Masons, etc…
 
Dwyer said:
It’s sad that this man’s potboiler writings are passed off as important literature to an unsophisticated public and made into movies by Hollywood.
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Has there been any “important literature” in English since Robert Ludlum?

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Padres1969 said:
Well people do like a good mystery. And his stories, while not the best written, are at least interestingly presented mystery stories. Often with subjects the popular culture likes to imagine are more mysterious then the reality might be. Such as the Vatican, the Illuminati, Christ having a family, The Masons, etc…
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At least he can burn equally on everybody!

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GEddie said:
Has there been any “important literature” in English since Robert Ludlum?

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I don’t personally follow contemporary literature but the answer is, unsurprisingly, yes:

rd.com/culture/contemporary-writers-read/

There was a time when writers played a role in our society; writers would be featured close to an annual basis on the cover of *Time *magazine (e.g., T.S. Eliot) for example.

Today, if a novel or play is discussed in our society, and the title trickles down to the common man or woman, vetted and pruned by the cultural gatekeepers as worthy of his or her consumption, its subject matter has to be about sex, vaginas, lawyers, the Catholic Church and its “secrets”, or the Catholic Church sex scandal, or a sequel to a literary classic bestseller from 55 years ago.
 
GEddie said:
Has there been any “important literature” in English since Robert Ludlum?

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Well, I’ve always though Boynton’s But Not the Hippopotamus to be an underrated classic on conformity, acceptance, and identity politics.
 
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Well, I’ve always though Boynton’s But Not the Hippopotamus to be an underrated classic on conformity, acceptance, and identity politics.
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Pales when compared to her earlier works, like “Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down.”

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