Record: Brown's new book sells over 1m copies in a day

news ^ | 18 September 2009,

[JoeProBono]

SAN FRANCISCO: The latest novel from “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, “The Lost Symbol,” broke one-day sales records, its publisher and booksellers said. Readers snapped up over one million hardcover copies across the US, Canada and the UK after it was released on Tuesday, said publisher Knopf Doubleday, a division of Random House. “We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for ‘The Lost Symbol,” said Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House.

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, called the book its bestselling first-day adult fiction title ever, including pre-orders. Barnes & Noble said “The Lost Symbol” broke its previous one-day sales record for adult fiction.

[Perdogg]

Another point re From Russia with Love. Fans consider this the best Bond novel by Fleming. However, eventhough it was published in 1957, I believe it was written years earlier. The story itself, without saying in the novel, takes place in 1954. The central story takes place on Thursday August 12th. The only time this happened in the 1950s was 1954. Also, the plot involves the MGB, which was disbanned in 1954. Fleming keeps switching between "Tatiana Romanova" and "Tatiana Romanov".

Another indication that Fleming got lazy was in decribing Kerim's mother. "My father was the sort of man women cannot resist. All women want to be swept off their feet...taken to a cave and raped."

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Marc Draco describes Tracy's english mother "I was married once only to..an English governess. She had come to Corisca..to look for bandits....subconscious desire to be raped."

[Perdogg]

I am glad the book is out. At least there is something other than tween vampire books in bookstores.

[CaptRon]

I like the genre myself, I just find Mr. Brown a terrible writer, not to mention that the whole premise of the Da Vinci Code was not original with him.

[K-oneTexas]

That’s true. I read ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’, “Foucault’s Pendulum’ and several others.

Eco is a better writer than Brown, but Brown is enjoyable.

Historical fiction is interesting reading. Mystery. Flights of fancy. Weaving a tale or a yarn. As I said enjoyable reading.