I'm a bit of a Dan Brown hater myself. I once tried to read The Da Vinci Code but gave up less than a quarter of the way through which means that it was added to the very very short list of books that I have failed to complete.
I would write down for your amusement the myriad reasons that I think he's a terrible writer - but why reinvent the wheel.

Here is one of the most sarcastic bits of writing I've seen in a long time that does the job perfectly well.

The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences (hat-tip to Language Log).

Those are brilliant, arnie. Some of them are funnier than Terry Pratchett. Shame they're not meant to be...

My favourites are 16, 14b and 8.

(You don't think it is Pratchett, do you, subversively writing comedy disguised as adventure?)

I'm amused by the phrase, "...her precarious body..." Is "precarious" misspelled? Should it be pre-caryous, meaning prior to having cell membranes?

I read "The Da Vinci Code" and was entertained. I wasn't looking for Great Literature and didn't get it, but I did have fun with it. I read "Angels and Demons" and found myself suffering unwilling suspension of disbelief.

Brown's Digital Fortress had so many errors of fact and bad writing that I should have never had to read another one of his books, but I read The Da Vinci Code to see what all the hubbub was about. It certainly was not the style or the plot.

I'm currently reading Steve Berry's The Venetian Betrayal. He's like Brown in that he writes thrillers based on historical fact mixed with conspiracy theory-type fiction. If you like Brown you'll like him. Anyway, a big part of the book is that the letters ZH are "Old Greek" for "life". OK, ζῆ is the imperative of ζῶ "to live", that's fine. He talks about this in the writer's note at the end of the book, too.

But then he goes on to say "The noun "life" is more accurately ΣΦΠ." Wait, what? We need a vowel!

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