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Posted on July 11, 2014July 19, 2014 by Glenn

Dan Brown is infamous in the world of grammarians. One of my favourite resources, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences, criticizes the first sentence of “The Da Vinci Code” Continue reading “One theory why Dan Brown writes so badly”

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