Its funny, as I get the impression that this also describes the Reacher series. And really any "pulp" fiction. So many successful stories are basically the same story over and over. Curious why this particular one would be so derided?
I am not above reading trash, and you often have to accept crappy writing in genre fiction. My wife reads the trashiest pulp romance there is. But even considering the low-grade prose in our diet, Dan Brown's writing is worse by an order of magnitude.
I'd rather gargle diarrhoea than read his shit again.
I'd rather attend a school play.
I have ADHD, but I once spent a day looking at a wall rather than allow his tepid faeces into my person.
He passes the turing test: machines cannot write that badly. His word choice smells like burning tyres, his sentence structure is like a drunk driver in a car park. He's a phenomenon.
Choose:
a) Dan Brown
b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVE (you must watch it all)
Is it better than a lot? I mean, almost certainly is in the mix there. It did enjoy a lot of time in the spotlight in ways that somewhat surprise me looking back. I couldn't say how it caught the attention that it did.