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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-04-04 05:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #5933 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5933 ⌋

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Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[personal profile] tabaqui 2023-04-04 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
There was such a to-do about that 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' (plus movies); when they were new, you'd have thought he was the next best thing since sliced bread. My sis loaned me the Da Vinci one and it was just...so awful. The couple others I've looked at were the same.
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Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2023-04-05 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
That is when I decided to read him, haha. I guess I thought it was less about him and more about the fact that people love both bible and illuminati conspiracies. Like the people I knew who actually liked his work spent most of that era desperately trying to convince people to read his tech-thrillers, which they claimed were actually good. I just remember him writing exactly like the "men write women" twitter
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Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[personal profile] tabaqui 2023-04-05 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I had never heard of him, and then suddenly he was everywhere, and i was just baffled.
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Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2023-04-05 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't be surprised if the Catholic church investigations shot his works in to the stratosphere. But I agree he's awful

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

(Anonymous) 2023-04-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I do think there was a certain amount of treating Dan Brown like he was a serious intellectual threat to Christianity as a religion, and generally a Thinker who had to be taken seriously. Which was and is ridiculous. So he was overrated to that extent.
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Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2023-04-05 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
i was saying this above, but considering the time period where in the us the catholic church was steadily seeing more investigations into its cadre of pedophiles, i could definitely see people taking dan brown too seriously.