Brown’s writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages not a single word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives. I slogged through 454 pages of this syntactic swill.
Mijn gedacht. Gedver dat was een akelig slecht boek. Poor man’s rehash van Holy Blood Holy Grail, dat zelf ook al niet bijster veel overschot had.