Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Best description ever of Dan Brown’s writing style?

Just So You KnowPerfidy Attacks

Found on Digg Spy, as the most intelligent comment on a story entitled ”Tom Hanks signs on to Angels & Demons for Record Payout?“.

Now, mind you, it came after a bunch of comments about how Angels & Demons was far superior to the Da Vinci Code. Which is absurd, as it’s like comparing runny shit to smelly shit.  Who knows which was actually worse?  Who cares?  They both (the books, not the types of shit) served a purpose, namely to be throw-away airport reading purchases, which is precisely how I came to read them both.

Anyway, the comment linked above, from Dumbledorito, reads, in its entirety:

A&D has a plot so linear you could put your eye out with it. Plus, it has an antimatter bomb (WTF?) and will probably piss off even more Catholics. The ending was more improbable than the Pope having been a former ping-pong champion, and lastly, if you’re going to make a movie about the Illuminati, it should be based on the works of Robert Anton Wilson.

Sorry to rant. I just didn’t care for it. It was also another “scholar wet dream” film as the bookish nerd-professor gets the hot chick thanks to his esoteric knowledge of an obscure subject.

Yeah, like s/he said.


Posted by Patton on 04/10/07 at 10:46 PM
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