Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol": The Ultimate Unauthorized and Independent Reading Guide
Monnow Man (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is no part 3! I’ve abandoned the idea of writing a page by page commentary of The Lost Key’s masonic content as: a) I no longer have the time. b) Now I’m on the middle of the book the masonic content has thinned out. c) I’m not being gripped by the book – it feels shallow and the [...]
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have finished reading Dan Brown’s last novel, The Lost Symbol, a few days ago. Maybe to be begin with, I must tell you that this is not a novel but a script for a planned blockbuster. Maybe if one takes it as a script, disappointment would be lesser. After the Da Vinci Code, this [...]
Kingsdowner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Currently imprisoned in the house by a cold (strange that men get far worse colds than women, who consequently can't understand the suffering and don't give the appropriate sympathy) I'm forced to bore any remaining readers with holiday snaps from our recent trip to Rome. During a hot slog around piles of rubble in the forum, many tourists enjoyed the light relief of a wall lizard sunning itself. The...
Time to Write (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
According to the blogger Destructive Anachronism, the formula for post-print literature may be “high quality content + innovative marketing + multimedia.” This was referenced in an article in the New York Times about a new quarterly literary magazine called “Electric...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Doesn't matter where you look at the moment, at low culture or at high, the issue is the inability of the public to distinguish good from bad. Better dancers get thrown out of Strictly Come Dancing because worse dancers have a certain something about them that appeals to prepubescent girls and their only just post-pubescent mothers. Similar criteria operate to the real or feigned fury – there's...
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Freemasonry and the New AgeGuestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.On September 15, 2009, THE LOST SYMBOL came off press. Fans of THE DA VINCI CODE, with more than 80 million copies in print perhaps...
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here are our latest hardcover fiction bestsellers: 1. The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan 2. Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving 3. Wild Things (fur-covered version), by Dave Eggers 4. Half-Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls 5. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore 6. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown 7. The Help, by Katherine Stockett 8. Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem 9. Her Fearful Symmetry,...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There's a growing trend in Hollywood where studios buy the screen rights for books before they are even released (see the recent acquisition of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse for just one example). I suppose it makes sense that if you have a big name writer (ie. Dan Brown) or a property that will probably be a big hit, you should get on board before anyone else finds out about it (and before the...
Monnow Man (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The recent publication of “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown seems to have stirred an interest in freemasonry in the online world. A search on #freemasonry on Twitter reveals a mix of curiosity, ignorance and, sadly, bigotry. These are balanced by tweets by freemasons who enjoy what they do and are proud of the organisation [...]
Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The God Conspiracy This book is in progress at Podiobooks. I've gotta love a conspiracy-theory, techno thriller where so many of the characters are Christians. Nothing like a bunch o' manly men stopping for a quick prayer before going out to whack the bad guys, right? One e-mail. Five lines. 4,000 dead. And it is only just beginning… When a small boy in Iowa forwards a mysterious email from...
En Face (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Image: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg208/maya_7002/42-game-concept-art-21425-124270972.jpg Image:... Related posts: Giulia Montanarini skimpy outfit Sienna Miller – M.H. Portrait Session at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, August 1 – 81 HQs Dan Brown’s novel sells over a million copies in 1 day!
HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I am an engineer by training who had very little writing experience in my career until I started HubSpot. In the early days of the company, I could not write software, so I spent a lot of time writing articles for our Internet Marketing Blog and was pleasantly surprised by how well it performed. Today, the blog has over 20,000 subscribers and over 100,000 new visitors per month. The good performance...
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
by Michelle Gagnon I stumbled across this article yesterday: "The cost of John Grisham's "Ford County," officially released Tuesday, moved up and down like stock market shares as rivals Amazon.com and Walmart.com extended, then rescinded, their high discounts for top-selling pre-orders. Early in the day, Amazon was selling Grisham's book of short stories for $9, the same price it had...
POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Lulu has become something of a curiosity in the old shop of author solutions services for me in the past year. Yesterday, we reported their announcement of an improved e-book facility, allowing them to properly embrace the development and continuing changes in the e-book market and provide self-publishing authors with something more than, what was, a pretty bog-standard e-book option. Bravo, Lulu....
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Resource Shelf has alerted me to the October OverDrive listings. They come form the 9,000 or so libraries that use EverDrive. Here are a few: Download Audiobooks – Adult Fiction 1, The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Books on Tape Two months on list and second month at #1 in this category) Download Audiobooks – Adult Nonfiction 1. [...]
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