Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences

Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol , has earned piles of cash from his books. The man can tell a good story, but is his writing as bad as many critics claim? (One professor called Brown’s prose “staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad.”) The Telegraph has catalogued 20 of Brown’s worst sentences, including this one from The Da Vinci Code : “Five months ago, the kaleidoscope of power had been shaken, and Aringarosa was still reeli…

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