“Origin” and the Demise of the Dan Brown Formula

Robert Langdon is Dan Brown’s #ManCrushMonday every day. All rights © FlynetPictures.com, May 3, 2009

Apparently Dan Brown might as well be the Elizabeth Gilbert of grocery-store thrillers. Book lovers and literary snobs alike seem to relegate him somewhere between Nora Roberts and Nicholas Sparks, dismissing his novels like they’re Twilight for adults who romanticize European art and architecture, historical mystery, and diet political intrigue.