In Case You Haven't Guessed, I Have a Taste for Sarcasm

Slate.com has published a do-it-yourself Dan Brown Sequel Generator. Just plug in the city of your choice, and the shadowy organization of your choice, and a new Dan Brown plot is generated just for you!

Thanks to Patrick O'Hannigan of The Paragraph Farmer for the tip.

Comments

[Kamilla]

Oh, that is hysterical! I plugged in "New Orleans" for the city and "The Mounties" for the shadowy organization. I thought it would be the funniest combination available and this is what it generated:

"A mysterious puzzle at the heart of New Orleans.
A shadowy cult determined to protect it.
A white-knuckled race to uncover the Mounties' darkest secret."

Kamilla

[Sally Thomas]

Ah. Mine was Ottawa and the Boy Scouts; the title is The Serpentine Glyph.

[Anthony Sacramone]

Hey -- I just saw this. Sorry, man -- if I'd known you had already blogged on this, I would have left my FT post in the combox here.

[Lars Walker]

Great minds and all that.

[Jerry]

Here is a link that you might enjoy. This guy really lets Dan Brown have it.

I edited Dan Brown’s writing, slowly

Dear Dan Brown,

. . .

In defence of well-written, enjoyable potboilers though, I have to point out that your writing style is so toxically inept that Vladimir Putin could use it to poison dissidents.

That’s hardly constructive criticism, so I’ve also taken an editorial pass at excerpts from the first two chapters of The Da Vinci Code. I’m not attempting to turn you into Faulkner by any stretch of the imagination but there are several tips I hope you find helpful in the future. I’ve left it in track changes, a file format I’m guessing your editor has never shown you.