He makes a reasonably convincing case. Steyn, by the way, is a Republican-friendly columnist from the UK.
Also by the way, the little glimpse I'm getting into Dan Brown's writing style by reading posts like this is decreasing the likelyhood of my ever reading him even further. And I didn't think that was possible.
Liberman (and Pullum, and Steyn) speak of:
Brown's habit of starting books with phrases like "renowned curator Jacques Saunière", "physicist Leonardo Vetra", and "geologist Charles Brophy".
Hmmmm. "Lesbian museum gift shop worker Annabel..." That's it, I'm a genius, I'll sell a million copies.
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Brown's clumsy style is basically modernized pulp fiction writing that either evokes a pleasurable youthful experience reading old Doc Savage, Shadow or Executioner paperbacks - or turns the reader off with its clunkiness. Me, I didn't mind it, but, then, I once managed a used bookstore and spent a lotta quiet time reading crappy pb originals . . .
I once night managed a similar bookstore...I must have read all the wrong books!
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