... on The Da Vinci Code from Jenny D: Oh dear, this is very funny....
Money quote: "...the NYTBR has taken to reviewing the most undemanding mass-market bestseller-type books that everyone is going to buy anyway, when what they surely really want is to be singling out the interesting but lesser-known stuff that is also commercial (i.e. non-'literary,' genre, less prestigious) but is as rich and rewarding to read as decent 'literary' fiction...."
And speaking of funny, try this: The Dan Brown Code.
Thank you for the pointer to that excellent entry by Geoff Pullum ("The Dan Brown Code"). Very funny entry. I know Prof Pullum, he is a published Nature author. And I can just see him writing that post! I just love his deconstruction, particularly of the first sentence (word) of the novel.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, another potentially interesting blog I have now discovered to add to my daily load of fascinating "spare time" reading.....help!