{"id":1029,"date":"2006-09-20T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2006-09-20T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:19:00","slug":"it-is-now-officially-2003-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/it-is-now-officially-2003-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It is now officially 2003 for me"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might surprise no one and everyone — I’m not sure which — that I haven’t yet read The Da Vinci Code<\/i> — that bastion of hypermarketed literary sensation. But I am in the process of remedying that egregious infraction, thanks in large part to Ashley lending me her hefty illustrated hardcover copy — a volume that, as I lie in bed leafing through it, gives me occasional college-era flashbacks to a time when I would take a meaty textbook to bed only to abandon it ten minutes in because there was no greater sleep aid in my studently life than a dull and densely worded $300 textbook. <\/p>\n

Tonight I will begin chapter fiveof Mr. Brown’s magnum opus. My take on the book so far is that it is easier to read than a textbook, of moderate interestingness, and written as poorly as any potential novel I could possibly eke out would be. Dan Brown’s love of modifiers rivals even my own (Dan Brown’s pervasive<\/i> love of copiously superfluous<\/i> modifiers vigorously<\/i> rivals even my own?) <\/p>\n

Brown’s prose style has been lambasted before<\/a> by language enthusiasts whose opinions I value greatly. I have no qualifications that would merit my addition to the pile-on, but I’m gonna dive on top of the heap anyway. <\/p>\n

So far, I find his writing style to lack grace and imagination. He uses lowest-common-denominator words that evoke not imagery but mere facts, despite the adjectivals and adverbials galore. His syntax is clumsy and, while I don’t think he’s necessarily a bad writer, I think he could use a stern and perspicacious editor who will approach his manuscripts with a red pen of Authority, making sure every word in the book belongs there and isn’t there just because it was the first word Dan Brown thought of.<\/p>\n

Of course, my opinion is moot. Dan Brown is a rich, rich man whose writing ability is inconsequential at this point. All he needs to know how to write is his signature on the back of a check. And I wonder how many modifiers he can fit back there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It might surprise no one and everyone — I’m not sure which — that I haven’t yet read The Da Vinci Code — that bastion of hypermarketed literary sensation. But I am in the process of remedying that egregious infraction, thanks in large part to Ashley lending me her hefty illustrated hardcover copy — a volume that, as I lie in bed leafing through it, gives me occasional college-era flashbacks to a time when I… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}