The Lost Symbol author Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences

The Lost Symbol, the latest novel by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, has gone on sale. We pick 20 of the clumsiest phrases from it and from his earlier works.

By Tom Chivers

If Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol is anything like his previous works, it will not go down well with the critics. Famously, comedian Stewart Lee mocked him for using the sentence “The famous man looked at the red cup” in his bestselling The Da Vinci Code.

via The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences – Telegraph.

Wonderfully mean spirited stuff this, and the Jet-Set Hobo applauds it.  For what it’s worth, here’s my favourite bit of nitpicking:

A voice spoke, chillingly close. “Do not move.” On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly. Only fifteen feet away, outside the sealed gate, the mountainous silhouette of his attacker stared through the iron bars. He was broad and tall, with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. His irises were pink with dark red pupils.

A silhouette with white hair and pink irises stood chillingly close but 15 feet away. As the Torygraph writer puts it, ‘what’s wrong with this picture?’

Read the entire article for more delightfully snide insight… And remember the old saying. If you don’t have anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit next to me…