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Dan Brown’s follow up to The DaVinci Code, now titled The Lost Symbol (wasn’t it supposed to be “The Solomon Key” or something?), will be released in September. Reports on its first print run range from Holy Fuck to Holy Fucktard. And speaking of fucktards, the big boxes are already trying to squeeze the little guys out by slashing prices by 50%. OMG-OMG-OMG! SALES! (runs in place while nervously shaking hands at sternum level) GRAB!! GRAB!! GRAB!! Thankfully, there are only a few authors who can make the entire industry start to pant and panic as though a suitcase full of money has popped open on the cultural interstate. Ah, Dignity… when is your holiday over, again?
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April 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
I can’t believe how much press this news release by Dan Brown is getting. Over at the books section of the Globe and Mail they dedicated a good chunk of print (or shall I say bytes) to this story. I mean really. Have any of you even read Deception Point or Digital Fortress? I rest my case.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
As a bookseller, all I can say is “Whew”.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Dave, the new book isn’t getting press because it’s going to be some jaw-dropping piece of fiction. The truth is that the general reader is interested, forcing media to cover it to the ears and making yet another gong show out of something that’s not really worthy.
PS. I read Davinci Code because, at the time, I was tired of being asked about it and of being probably the last Chapters employee who hadn’t yet read it. Tried Angels and Demons but couldn’t get through it — the formulaic writing ruined it. I imagine the other two you mention are just the same.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I wonder how the new book will open? I don’t mean “Robert Langdon woke…” because that’s a given (the other two opened the same way). What I want to know is what will wake Robert Langdon up? Will it be his alarm clock? Or a phone call? Or a knock on the door? Or bullets bursting through the window? Or an albino monk jumping up and down on his head? Or a home invasion by obsessive amateur cryptographers who are convinced a secret message revealing the true orgins Western civilization is hidden in the artwork of Keith Haring?
Or will he, GASP, SHUDDER, be awake at the start of the book?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night. I may drink too much coffee.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
i wish i could get back those 4 hours of my life that i spent reading that book.