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Dan Brown, debunked

  • Michael Baigent,"Debunking Dan Brown," Daily Beast, 20 September

  • Tom Chivers,"The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences," Telegraph, 15 September

  • Adam Gopnik,"Read All About It," New Yorker, 28 September

  • Jeremy Jehu reviews The Lost Symbol for the Telegraph, 15 September

  • David Plotz,"Dan Brown's Washington," Slate, 16 September

  • Dan Brown plot generators at: Slate and West 116th Street.
  • Read entire article at Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria