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Was there a Mrs. Jesus? | Scholars and Rogues

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Illuminati 2012- The World doesn’t want you to read. « Ramanan50's Blog

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Your Lucky Day: The Dark Dangers of Greed

“Your Lucky Day” is an amazing short film made for OhHello TV by Dan... more

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WHACKO-TV The Lost Symbolism

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Dan Brown's New Book Sells A Million Copies In One Day

Dan Brown does it again. Doubleday announced Wednesday that "The Lost... more

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Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences ever?

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Freemasons hail Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol as 'good fun'

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Nothing's lost on Dan Brown as long-awaited 'Symbol' arrives

NEW YORK — The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's thriller to be released Tuesday — his first since 2003's The Da Vinci Code— includes a scene that Brown says came from his own life.
In the new novel, Brown's recurring hero, Harvard professor Robert Langdon, is recognized by a fan who tells him: "My book group read your book about the sacred feminine and the church! What a delicious scandal that one caused! You do enjoy putting the fox in the henhouse!"

Langdon, who in Brown's fiction writes non-fiction books about symbols and religion, replies, "Scandal wasn't really my intention."

Is that a reference to Da Vinci, which has sold 80 million copies worldwide, and was driven by the idea that the Vatican covered up Jesus' marriage to Mary Magdalene?

"Of course," Brown says and laughs.

Three years ago, facing a British copyright infringement suit over The Da Vinci Code (decided in his favor), Brown says a woman recognized him, and used that phrase: "Putting the fox in the henhouse."

He replied the way Langdon does in the novel. But if scandal isn't his intention, what is?

"To mix facts into a fictional setting and get readers to ask questions about what they believe. But to make it fun to read. Someone said it's like eating vegetables that taste like ice cream. That's a little simplistic."

Brown's thrillers are anything but simplistic. The Lost Symbol, a 509-page puzzle, is set in modern-day Washington, D.C.

It's driven by a Masonic legend: hidden in the nation's capital is a map or portal that leads to a body of secret knowledge, that as Langdon puts it, "allegedly enables its practitioners to access powerful abilities that lie dormant in the human mind."

The map may not literally be a map. And for much of the novel, it's not clear what's real and what's metaphorical symbolism.

But with a first printing of 5 million copies, there's no doubt that Symbol promises to be the publishing event of 2009.

Brown says he knew he had to do two things to appeal to his fans: "They had to immediately know they were back in Langdon's world, but that the story was fresh."NEW YORK — The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's thriller to be released Tuesday... more

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The only review of 'The Lost Symbol' you'll need

Fantastic. If the book was actually like this I'd totally read it. Thanks Gawker.

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Dan Brown Named 'Most Donated Author'

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Get Booked: Is Dan Brown an evil Book Killer?

Thom Geier says it best, so I'll just let him begin:

"There’s been much fulminating in the books world lately that The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, is bad for publishing. This week, former Publisher’s Weekly editor Sara Nelson even dubbed Brown a “Book Killer.” The theory is that Brown’s readers will only troop into stores (or go online) starting Sept. 15 to buy Symbol, probably at a deep discount, and they won’t buy anything else. Worse, the critics argue, the hubbub surrounding Symbol will drown out media coverage of other books — and eat into sales of those books too. So publishers have supposedly been shuffling the release dates of various titles so they don’t have to go head-to-head with the Dan Brown juggernaut."

Thom Geier's analysis:

"It doesn’t take a Harvard symbologist to see that this is mostly sour grapes and a whole lot of hooey."

You hear that? A whole lot of hooey. I like this guy.

"It reminds me of the stink that publishers raised over the Harry Potter series, successfully persuading The New York Times and other outlets to demote the titles from their adult best-seller lists so that J.K. Rowling titles wouldn’t hog up so many slots. Why do we have to compete with a book that appeals to a youth-skewing mass audience, beyond the usual Starbucks-sipping B&N crowd?, the publishers asked. That just isn’t fair! (Imagine if the movie studios tried something similar so they wouldn’t have to compete with the box office returns of G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.)"

Mr. Geier goes on to point out that, although Dan Brown's new novel will almost undoubtedly jump to the #1 slot, it's effect on the book purchasing trends of other books will be minimal and, if anything, will draw in and audience that may include many "non-habitual book shoppers."

"The crossover with Jon Krakauer or Jonathan Lethem or Pat Conroy, some of the authors alleged to be “hurt” by Brown, seems infinitesimally small. (I’d love to see the Venn diagram of the overlap in readership, actually.)"

Brownie points if you can supply Master Thom with his Venn diagram.

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Do you think Dan Brown is a Book Killer? Will you be reading his newest book, Lost Symbol? And which would be worse to meet in a dark alley: the Dan Brown Juggernaut or the J.K. Rowling Youth-Skewer?Thom Geier says it best, so I'll just let him begin: "There’s been... more