Dan Brown
Posted: Thu 17 September, 2009 Filed under: Writing 5 Comments »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.
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.
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.
[…] up reading the Telegraph’s list of Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences, pointed out by d4d. It is frankly hilarious. I’ve never read Dan Brown, nor do I plan to, and this only […]
Who is Dan Brown? 😉
(come sin the same unreadable bag as JK Rowling in my opinion)
Ah, typos are amusing sometimes, aren’t they…