How to write like Dan Brown

[jack]

If you saw a mainstream link to "How to write like Dan Brown" would you expect it was sarcasm, or serious?

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Satire.

[gerald_duck]

Depends how high-brow a publication.

In tabloid media, serious. In places I'm likely to see a link, satire.

On BBC News… hmm… could go either way. (-8

[fluffymormegil]

I would want it to be satire/sarcasm; in a mainstream source I might well expect it to be devoid of those traits.

[azurelunatic]

This.

[jack]

Yeah, that :)

[pseudomonas]

Mainstream, I'd expect it was serious, if it wasn't provided with other contextual hints that it was satire. While Dan Brown is not generally seen as a Great Writer, I don't think he's (in mainstream terms) the figure of fun that would be required for there to be much mileage in a satirical link with that title. He's a byword for "successful low-brow" rather than "awful writing style", though possibly people see "writing like Dan Brown" as an attainable target compared to other successful writers.