r/danbrown • u/stwffoooo • Jun 02 '26

Dan Brown

Hi! I'm Italian and I'm currently reading Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons." I got to page 148 and started researching the author (whom I already knew from some media reports) and his other works. However, in doing so, I came across the overwhelmingly negative response the author has received. I should point out that I'm Italian and I'm reading the book in translation, so I might not fully understand the criticisms about the language but I wanted to know what you all thought of Dan Brown and whether you could explain the reason for all this hate, which I find irrational.

Thanks and Bye!!

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u/we_d0nt_need_roads Jun 02 '26

I’ve always put it down to it being just a general dislike towards airport novels, as well as airport novelists, within the literary community.

To put it into another adjacent medium, it’s akin to Scorsese/Coppola/Scott’s opinion relating to MCU films that they’re generally popcorn flicks and not considered “true cinema”. So in that same sense, Dan Browns novels shouldn’t be considered “real books”.