Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol": The Ultimate Unauthorized and Independent Reading Guide
Amanda Auchter (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Sometime I miss the harried routine of grad school, which when I say (write) it out loud, you'll think I'm crazy: reading 5 books a month, writing (on average) 6 poems and 2 annotations. I felt so productive, so in tune with things. Then came graduation, teaching, the end of the bubble. I'm a scatterbrained reader right now. What's on my shelf? A ridiculous hodgepodge that I'll pick up depending on...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Chetan Bhagat's 2 States, or Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. For most bookstores, those are first preference for their show windows. Compared to the situation after 9/11, when a plethora of books on the subject dominated US bookstores, there has been remarkably little on 26/11.
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amazing: Palin’s book number one on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller list; Update: “It is truly unprecedented” posted at 6:58 pm on September 30, 2009 by Allahpundit Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Forty-eight days before the release and she’s already topped Dan Brown’s latest conspiracy-theory casserole at both top retailers. To put that in perspective,...
Digital Podcast (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Week in Audio Books - This Week's Best Sellers Subscribe to the podcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestSellingAudioBooks 1. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | yesterday
(This is a bit of non-political weekend fun. Don't take it too seriously.) No, I'm not pulling a Dan Brown on you: Leonardo da Vinci really did write what have been called "prophecies." Many of these quotes seem more like axioms or observations, applicable to any time, although the ones printed here seem intended to be taken as forecasts of things to come. Each prophecy carries a poetic title....
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Dan Brown’s latest thriller ‘The Lost Symbol’, Freemason Mal’akh gazes down the human skull cradled in his palms and looks into the crimson wine before drinking it in long deep, swallows to the last drop. TNN | Nov 19, 2009 by Arun Ram After the installation of Dr B Biswakumar as the grandmaster of Freemasons India [...]
Martin Meenagh Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
What powers global growth? The picture is Guercino' s Et in Arcadia Ego, which is often sidelined in the popular bourgeois mind by Poussin's picture of sheperds which Dan Brown, Henry Lincoln, and others have turned into a travesty of art-as-something-useful in recent years. Guercino's painting is about the contrast of opposites, and has been seen as a play between harsh reality and dreamy innocence....
Home Video News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
If I were making a list of things I wouldn’t have expected Umberto Eco to say, this quote taken from an interview with Der Spiegel would be a contender for the #1 spot: I felt like a character in a Dan Brown novel. Heh… [Via MetaFilter]
Bertram's Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This is the second to last day of my blog tour. I wasn’t sure I’d manage to do all the work — 52 stops in 35 days. When you count the posts I did here to promote the tour, that means I wrote eighty-seven articles in five weeks. Whew! I truly did not intend the tour to be so [...]
The Green Apple Core (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The last time I wrote for the Green Apple Core, Dan Brown had just renewed his heroic quest to save publishing (I guess the fact that I'm still employed means he succeeded'), the Phillies still had a chance to win the World Series (sure, so did the Giants), Glenn Beck hadn't yet "immortalized" his Nazi fetish on a book cover , and we were all assured Oprah's talk show would go on forever...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
How much of Dan Brown’s new novel is fiction and fact? Simon Cox examines the truth in DECODING THE LOST SYMBOL: THE UNAUTHORIZED EXPERT GUIDE TO THE FACTS BEHIND THE FICTION. Based on extensive research, this A-to-Z guide lists the real people, organizations, and themes featured in Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, explains their histories and [...]
Raindrops (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Here it is, seven o'clock in the A.M., and I've completed the daily Sudoku in the morning paper. Whoda thunkit: not about completing the puzzle but doing so by 7:00? I've never been a morning person. Certainly, the normal worker who is nighthawk by nature is forced to stumble out and about in a state of bewilderment at ungodly hours. (Or are they, in point of fact, the godly hours') But once I retired...
Boxwish (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
File this one under “no, you don’t say” as apparently the Vatican is upset with The Twilight Saga: New Moon . After expressing disapproval at the Harry Potter books and films and likewise the Dan Brown efforts, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons , the Catholic Church has now taken offense at the latest instalment of the Stephenie Meyer saga. Interesting that there was no need...
From On High (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Truly a phenomenon: Palin's Gold Mine by Duff McDonald, The Daily Beast Going Rogue is going gangbusters, and it looks like both Palin and her publisher, HarperCollins, are going to make some serious money off of it. A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced...
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