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Dan Brown: mystery maker, or just ‘laughably awful’?

Dan Brown: mystery maker, or just ‘laughably awful’?

The Front · The Australian

October 10, 202515m 19s

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Show Notes

A factoid dude, but it ain’t art’ says guest Jack Marx on Dan Brown and his latest novel The Secret of Secrets. Brown’s books sell by the boatload, but can he really write? Literary Editor Caroline Overington joins Marx to dissect Brown’s appeal: from his love of puzzles to his ‘romantic nincompoop’ hero, Robert Langdon.

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