Mocking Bad Writing

I have been tearing through some books recently, attempting to read what my housemate owns before I move out. So in the past week I read the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson and De Villier's Code by Tom Eaton.

Did anyone think that while Da Vinci Code is is riveting, it is some bad literature? The De Villier's Code is based in Cape Town and makes fun of all the horrible writing of Dan Brown. I was so glad to find that despite the numerous readers of the Da Vinci Code, some people do think it is badly written. For instance, Tom Eaton pokes fun at how Dan Brown interrupts his narrative so often with chapter breaks and sometimes has incredibly short chapters. So the characters are having a discussion and a new chapter starts a paragraph later in the middle of a sentance and the main character gets frustrated and decides to wait it out as each chapter gets shorter, until there is nothing for several chapters. He speaks to see if the interruptions are done, nope, not yet. Finally he continues.