Posted by admin on September 15th, 2009
Dan Brown is shown May 3 in Rome after the premiere of the film version of Angels & Demons. The Masons get a benign portrayal in his new book, The Lost Symbol. (Andrew Medichini/Associated Press)
U.S. writer Dan Brown, who outraged the Vatican with his novel The Da Vinci Code, has centred his latest book, The Lost Symbol, around the Freemasons.
And modern Masons seem delighted, or at least resigned to the prospect.
Brown’s novel, released Tuesday, again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, the main character in The Da Vinci Code. This time, however, he’s solving a mystery in Washington, D.C., involving a secret link between the Masons and the city’s history.
The plot features an anti-Masonic video and an ancient Masonic pyramid containing a secret code.
Posted by admin on September 15th, 2009
The Times did it again, they published a review of a book that was embargoed before publication date. Or did the publisher encourage it by imposing an embargo? The chance to break a story becomes irresistible, and so they went for it and published a review of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Earlier this month they broke the embargo on the Kennedy memoir, True Compass, when they published a review nearly two weeks before publication date.
Now, they’ve jumped publication date by a day, but with a blockbuster that’s sure to have a strict on sale date, every minute counts as customers line up to buy the next book by the author of The Da Vinci Code. The good news for Doubleday and readers is that Janet Maslin likes it:
Too many popular authors (Thomas Harris) have followed huge hits (“The Silence of the Lambs”) with terrible embarrassments (“Hannibal”). Mr. Brown hasn’t done that. Instead, he’s bringing sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead.
Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2009
Publisher’s Doubleday group to print a record five million copies of author Dan Brown’s long-awaited follow to the top-selling adult hardcover novel in history.
The author of The Da Vinci Code will finally publish his follow-up to the top-selling adult hardcover novel of all time.
Dan Brown’s long-awaited novel, The Lost Symbol, will arrive in bookstores Sept. 15, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced Monday.
Featuring Mr. Brown’s well known hero Robert Langdon, the novel will have a first printing of five million copies—a record for parent company Random House Inc.
