is Dan Brown a Thomas Pynchon?

[B C Johnson]

Perhaps Dan Brown IS Thomas Pynchon.
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Subject: is Dan Brown a Thomas Pynchon?


> http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-davinci15.html
>
> ""Is this person a Thomas Pynchon or Toni Morrison or Philip Roth?
> That's the wrong question," Nelson says. "But I'm quite open to a lot
> of different kinds of writing, including a lot of genre fiction, which
> can be brilliantly written and often is. But Dan Brown is a mediocre
> practitioner of his genre -- not the worst, but certainly not the
> best.""
>
> just a funny and pointless Pynchon reference in an article bashing a bad 
> book.