Comments on: Dan and me

By: ian

ian — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:07:12 +0000

I saw a great book in an airport the other day, it was like something co-written by Dan Brown and Andy McNab. I wish I could remember what it was called.

By: Wood

Wood — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:59:38 +0000

Thank you. I really appreciate that. Although I didn’t notice anyone being particularly embarassing.

If you’re interested, I’m doing the headline feature at the Crunch on 20th August, and I was thinking that I’d probably have to wheel this one out at the end. Come and say hi next time you’re there. I won’t bite.

By: jibbs

jibbs — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:35:46 +0000

I saw this at the crunch and thought it was amazing in every way.I genuinely don’t think i’ve laughed so hard in my life (yes, i was the embarassing girl near the front bent over in hysterics). ‘Fuck you Dan Brown’ has become a catchphrase of mine since. So good to be able to read it again….but man, that night you were electric! Please do it again sometime and let me know. I loved it and utterly agree ‘fuck you, dan brown, FUCK you!’

By: Deb C

Deb C — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:09:25 +0000

ooh this is clever! I bet it’s even better as a performance piece.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:38:21 +0000

I don’t quite know that it works that way, that he’s taking up space where better writers could live. I mean, the top of the sales is so often reserved for the lowest common denominator. It has to be to appeal to a wide audience like that. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad, but whatever takes up that big, shiny shelf space is usually that kind of material.

The good thing is, it’s that kind of material that keeps booksellers — and book publishers — in business. I genuinely do not believe that Dan Brown, or any other Writer Du Jour, is taking up valuable real estate.

– c.

By: Wood

Wood — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:26:17 +0000

@Will: he’s cost me nothing, true.

But the economics of book sales, at least over here, mean that for every acre of shelf space a Dan Brown display takes up, an acre of other writers’ books, good, bad and indifferent, get remaindered. Dan Brown (and maybe JK Rowling, although I don’t think I can honestly bring myself to hate her) is costing other writers. His work is actively keeping other published writers from their chance.

Which actually brings me to put what I wanted to say in a much better way, so actually I’ve edited it to include that thought.

Dan Brown costs me nothing. But you’re helping make my writing better.

By: Emily Jones

Emily Jones — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:07:55 +0000

Thanks for posting this from a member of the very appreciative audience ;)

By: Will

Will — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:44:58 +0000

As a live-performance piece, I like it a lot, even with its adverbs and third-person antics.

Is it worth the cost of your soul? No. Remember, remember: Dan Brown has nothing to do with you. His success costs you nothing.

Succeed despite him, not to spite him.

By: Wood

Wood — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:47 +0000

No, but close enough.

The title was “Fuck you, Dan Brown.”

I was last up at the open mic — I’m a regular — and there’d been like fifty really serious poems before me. And I was like, this is a poem about how as a writer, you’re never as successful as you want to be. It’s called, “Fuck You, Dan Brown.”

I got a round of applause before I even got to the start of the poem. Times like that, you know you’ve already won the audience.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:24:08 +0000

Is the original title of the piece: “Dan Brown Is A Mighty Cunt?”