Convince us to read a book you don't care for yourself.
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Convince us to read a book you don't care for yourself.
I would highly recommend any budding writer to go and read Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. You can find it cheap in all good charity shops. Then get yourself a red pen and have fun editing the shit out of it because it's so badly written.
The first page is predominantly a lengthly, detailed description of a silhouetted figure.
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Convince us to read a book you don't care for yourself.
I would highly recommend any budding writer to go and read Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. You can find it cheap in all good charity shops. Then get yourself a red pen and have fun editing the shit out of it because it's so badly written.
The first page is predominantly a lengthly, detailed description of a silhouetted figure.
️ Joking aside, I would recommend everyone to read whatever hated classic novels they were forced to read in English at school.
It put me off picking up classics for a long time, but I love reading them now and I get so much more from the experience. There is less brain-numbing analysing and it's more about what the story is telling you.
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Convince us to read a book you don't care for yourself.
I would highly recommend any budding writer to go and read Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. You can find it cheap in all good charity shops. Then get yourself a red pen and have fun editing the shit out of it because it's so badly written.
The first page is predominantly a lengthly, detailed description of a silhouetted figure.
️ @Emmacox Alan Moore recommended this in his writing course too. “Try to work out exactly what it is about this work that offends you.”
God I remember reading TDvC and just. Everything is bad in it. A third of the word count spent explaining conspiracy theories in a bathroom in the Louvre. Absurd claims that it’s based on factual information. Brown’s “Je parle Français” sections. People having the start of memories but then pausing them on cliffhangers so they could continue the plot.
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@Emmacox Alan Moore recommended this in his writing course too. “Try to work out exactly what it is about this work that offends you.”
God I remember reading TDvC and just. Everything is bad in it. A third of the word count spent explaining conspiracy theories in a bathroom in the Louvre. Absurd claims that it’s based on factual information. Brown’s “Je parle Français” sections. People having the start of memories but then pausing them on cliffhangers so they could continue the plot.
@Dataless I remember reading it on holiday in Scotland. I'd just read the amazing Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb and then I read DaVinci Code.
I like Alan Moore's advice. There are benefits for not DNF a book. I feel TDvC did well from the marketing. Often, I'll open a book with pages of praise about the novel, and I take it as a challenge to find reasons to hate it.
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