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Record: Brown's new book sells over 1m copies in a day
news ^ | 18 September 2009,

Posted on 09/17/2009 12:52:19 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: bookreview; danbrown; davincicode; lostsymbol; thelostsymbol
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Teaser wallpaper for Dan Brown’s upcoming book, The Lost Symbol. Images are unofficial.

The content of the image is left up to your interpretation. What (or who) is the helicopter searching for? Why is the flag at half staff? WhAt is the significance of the symbols on the left side of the image? Why is the compass oriented with east at the top? I’m not telling!


1 posted on 09/17/2009 12:52:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

You ask many questions, grasshopper.....


2 posted on 09/17/2009 12:57:17 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: JoeProBono

I just saw it in the Sunday Parade magazine. Had a different title last year (before publication).

A lot of things he writes about symbology, religion and art history and visiting great cities does intrigue me.

I have read Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point and Digital Fortress ... So I’ll be reading this one too.

It is as they all are books for entertainment, not a non-fiction story. They are entertaining and make you look at things in different than usual. This one appeals to me on multiple levels, and on a personal note more so since many men in my family were/are Masons. As am I.

Plus I’m a sucker for a good series.


3 posted on 09/17/2009 1:03:57 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: K-oneTexas

How could you make it through the horrendous cliche writing in those books?

I (barely) made it through the first

May I suggest....

http://www.fanfic.net

Better writing there.


4 posted on 09/17/2009 1:10:54 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: K-oneTexas

5 posted on 09/17/2009 1:11:13 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
In the early days....everything G. Washington was noted as "Masonic"....

It's a great topic....

6 posted on 09/17/2009 1:13:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: netmilsmom

We all have different taste. You don’t like Brown, I do. I find his and many other in this genre very entertaining.

I’ll check out fanfic.

We will have to agree to disagree.


7 posted on 09/17/2009 1:14:28 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: JoeProBono

Those are excellent sales, but as far as being a record? Rowling’s last Harry Potter book sold 8.3 million in the first day. I know that this is listed as adult fiction as compared to young adult, but they’re splitting hairs here to claim records. It’s like when you’re watching a football game and hear that a ball carrier has the longest run from scrimmage in a non-conference game since December 15th. Everything’s a record.


8 posted on 09/17/2009 1:16:15 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: K-oneTexas

Hey, Brown is OK reading for the beach.

As long as you remember that it’s a fictional gloss on a core of historical.....fiction.


9 posted on 09/17/2009 1:37:52 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (If we can't get good government, then I want as little government as possible.)
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To: Notary Sojac

What he write, for me, is entertainment. If I want something real I’ll read the history of WWI or Viet Nam.

My job has me reading the real world stuff all the time ... I like this break.


10 posted on 09/17/2009 1:42:34 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: JoeProBono

He writes poorly, IMO, although I find the books interesting, and enjoy them none the less.


11 posted on 09/17/2009 2:49:13 PM PDT by Paradox (ObamaCare = Logan's Run ; There is no Sanctuary!)
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To: K-oneTexas

Have you read “Pillars of The Earth” by Ken Follett? It’s an excellent historical novel about the building of a cathedral in England in the 12th Century. A good, fat book to read! =o)


12 posted on 09/17/2009 4:38:11 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina

No I haven’t, but I’ll add it to the list. Thanks.


13 posted on 09/17/2009 5:03:22 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: K-oneTexas; SunkenCiv
Is it any good?
14 posted on 09/17/2009 7:35:43 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

Don’t know. Haven’t read the new book yet. But I will.


15 posted on 09/18/2009 6:14:08 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: arasina
Pillars must be 20 years old by now. You are right good book. read it cover to cover on a plane to Taiwan in the early 90’s
16 posted on 09/18/2009 6:19:31 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: Perdogg

:’) I haven’t read any of his books. Not being some kind of snob, I figure that anything in print that sells like hotcakes must have something going for it. :’) Since 1985 I’ve only read one (perhaps two, but I don’t recall what it would have been) book-length fiction, oh, also re-read most of Lord of the Rings before the first movie came out.


17 posted on 09/18/2009 5:37:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
Right now I am rereading all of the Ian Fleming Bond novels. I am up to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I am saving the anthologies for last. Since I now have the Internet, my suspicions about Thunderball have been confirmed (I read it in 1989) that not only was Thunderball was written to be filmed as a movie but Fleming was sued and had to pay for plagiarism.

I have also learned that, like I felt 20 years ago, that there is some doubt that Fleming actually wrote The Man with The Golden Gun.

Also, I never knew of the controversy with The Spy Who Loved Me and how it was actually banned in some countries due its "graphic talk" about sex and the fact that the female in the book (It was also controversial that the book is told from the woman's point of view - The Spy being James Bond) had an abortion. Fleming made it so that the story could never be filmed and that Vivian Michael will never be a character in a Bond film.
18 posted on 09/18/2009 6:29:12 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

Did Fleming write any of the screen adaptations? I thought that was mostly the work of someone else. Thanks P.


19 posted on 09/18/2009 8:09:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
He and three other people wrote Thunderball which was supposed to be the first James Bond movie. Then it all went to hell.
20 posted on 09/19/2009 5:43:47 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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