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Sep '09

Dan Brown

   Posted by: lyle   in Writing

For once in my life, I’m not going to go off on a rant about Dan Brown’s writing style and so on. I’ve done enough of that via Twitter to last me a while. (I may add some thoughts over the weekend, but I wouldn’t count on it)

Instead, I’m going to let The Telegraph point things out in a far better, pithier (and significantly less sweary) way by just pointing you to this article showing what they list as Brown’s Worst Twenty Sentences.

And it’s fair to say I really don’t want to read his new novel.

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4 comments so far

 1 

Awww but I wanna hear a rant!!! :)

Interesting to see Prof. Pullum quoted – his Language Log blog is one I follow, and he is a hilarious speaker on the English language.

September 17th, 2009 at 12:12
lyle
 2 

Oh, it’ll probably still happen. I just need the time to build up a decent head of steam on the fuckstick twat.

I’ll have to read more by Prof. Pullum – hadn’t come across his writing before now.

September 17th, 2009 at 13:56
 3 

Who is Dan Brown? ;)

(come sin the same unreadable bag as JK Rowling in my opinion)

September 17th, 2009 at 15:42
 4 

Ah, typos are amusing sometimes, aren’t they…

September 17th, 2009 at 15:42

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