The Globe and Mail: KEEPING ABREAST OF THINGS IN N.B.:

Okay, it’s not a fatwa, but Salman Rushdie certainly has been very public in expressing his dislike of Dan Brown’s appallingly popular The Da Vinci Code. The Satanic Verses author recently asked a group of U.S. university students to raise their hands if they had read the Brown novel. When they did, he snapped: “Shame on you . . . that book is so bad that it makes bad books look good.” On another occasion, he called it “the worst novel ever written.” Recently, an American literary journal cited Rushdie as saying that, “It’s bad to murder writers. Except maybe Dan Brown.” He was kidding, of course.

Cross-posted from THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND for the benefit of bad book aficionados.

The Globe and Mail: KEEPING ABREAST OF THINGS IN N.B.: “Okay, it’s not a fatwa, but Salman Rushdie certainly has been very public in expressing his dislike of Dan Brown’s appallingly popular The Da Vinci Code. The Satanic Verses author recently asked a group of U.S. university students to raise their hands if they had read the Brown novel. When they did, he snapped: ‘Shame on you . . . that book is so bad that it makes bad books look good.’ On another occasion, he called it ‘the worst novel ever written.’ Recently, an American literary journal cited Rushdie as saying that, ‘It’s bad to murder writers. Except maybe Dan Brown.’ He was kidding, of course.”

The Globe and Mail: KEEPING ABREAST OF THINGS IN N.B.: “Okay, it’s not a fatwa, but Salman Rushdie certainly has been very public in expressing his dislike of Dan Brown’s appallingly popular The Da Vinci Code. The Satanic Verses author recently asked a group of U.S. university students to raise their hands if they had read the Brown novel. When they did, he snapped: ‘Shame on you . . . that book is so bad that it makes bad books look good.’ On another occasion, he called it ‘the worst novel ever written.’ Recently, an American literary journal cited Rushdie as saying that, ‘It’s bad to murder writers. Except maybe Dan Brown.’ He was kidding, of course.”

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