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    Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House

    Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed

    Happy Dan Brown Day

    Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is Just The DaVinci Code in Washington D.C.

    Warrior Angel Dan Brown Hovers Over a Roiling Hollywood

    Fate of Publishing Industry Depends on Dan Brown's Next Book
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    Image of Mar Charbel Mar Charbel
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    why is everyone wearing goddamn scarfs?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    09/17/09

    @Mar Charbel: Vampire orgy?
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    Image of Colander Colander
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    I love how diverse the celebrators are in the click-thru photo.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    Okay, this is a VERY insider comment -- which I usually try to avoid.

    The real person that got damaged by Dan Brown's hesitation is Steve Rubin, the former President and Publisher of Doubleday/Broadway. If The Lost Symbol had been published last year, he'd still have his job.

    Steve is a intelligent, perceptive man who worked for the company in various ways for almost 20 years. If you asked him a question, he would give you a clear answer.

    So Dan Brown dithers...

    Rubin is kicked upstairs to a vague job...

    And Sonny glides down the hallway with a smile on his face.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    09/17/09

    @smithhimself: Had Steve Rubin done a better job managing Doubleday's outsized advances and the cash flow problems they caused, he would still be publisher. And I feel much more sorry for the many Doubleday employees who lost their jobs than for Steve. He's still drawing a significant paycheck in his "vague" job.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    09/29/09

    @BeckySharper:

    No. He's gone.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    His books are obviously ghostwritten by his brother, Encyclopedia Brown.
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    Image of KurticusMaximus KurticusMaximus
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    Dan Brown is a pretty convincing argument against universal literacy.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    OK, Dan Brown, you win.

    But answer me this much: Is it the Templars, the Catholic Church, or the Masons who secretly run everything on this planet? Which one is IT?

    Or is your point that they're all one and the same uber-org headquartered 1) in the Louvre 2) under the Pope's robe 3) in a broom closet at the Lincoln Memorial?
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    and [Brown] was taking forever with his new book

    For what? To craft his prose? To research facts? I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason here.
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    Image of Gregoire Gregoire
    09/17/09

    @Claire Buoyant: I believe he was busy rolling around in a bed of money, and lighting cigars with burning money, and well, doing other related money things.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    09/17/09

    @Claire Buoyant:

    Ohhh, it looks like someone likes sour-grape flavor Hater-Ade!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/17/09

    @Claire Buoyant: In the pic above, it looks like this door-stopper runs 1,500 pages--typing that many idiotic words takes time.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    09/17/09

    In reply to Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
    Ha ha, that's the ugliest cake I've ever seen, and I watch A LOT of Food Network challenges!
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    09/17/09

    @misslinda: [cakewrecks.blogspot.com]

    (It already has a book deal, too.)
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    Image of Gregoire Gregoire
    09/16/09

    In reply to Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed
    I used to say bad things about Dan Brown, but then one day I picked up this book called Twilight.

    Now I think Dan Brown is Victor Fucking Hugo.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    09/16/09

    In reply to Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed
    "Pssst," the oracle whispered. "Write books for people who can barely read!"
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    09/16/09

    In reply to Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed
    FUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOU!
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    09/16/09

    @braak: Sorry. I know I'm supposed to be adding to the discourse, or something.

    But seriously. Fuck you, Dan Brown.
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    Image of Rhymenocerous Rhymenocerous
    09/16/09

    In reply to Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed
    So Dan Brown is like the Jay Leno of books?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    09/16/09

    @Rhymenocerous: No. Jay Leno is the Dan Brown of comedy.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    09/16/09

    In reply to Don't Forget: Bad Big Books Keep Good People in Publishing Employed
    I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code.

    It was a fast, stupid, forward-propelled good read that kept me mildly entertained for three hours.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/16/09

    @TedSez: I bet readers who innocently enjoyed Dan Brown get to go to heaven.

    People like you and I, who despise his illiterate, ill-informed pseudo-historical bs but bought it/read it anyway for sh*ts and giggles? We're going to HELL.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    09/16/09

    @snugbug: I'll join your handbasket. Though I'm pretty proud that I knew some of the codes before they characters did. "C'MON! It's backward, for god's sake, you morons!"

    Also, it was free.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    09/16/09

    @snugbug: I'd be very surprised if more than a tiny fraction of readers actually believed any of it.

    Although I have to admit, it finally helped me understand what The Chalice and the Blade was all about.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    09/16/09

    @SaraRueful: I expensed it (I actually did have to read it for work) so that the publishers of Twilight paid for it. Ha.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    09/15/09

    In reply to Happy Dan Brown Day
    "Everyone acknowledges that the book isn't actually any good . . ." (See @Jeangenie: on Washpost review)
    Yet the NYT review seemed overall pretty favorable, taking the book as a "guilty pleasure" and crediting Brown with "...bringing sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead. The new book clicks even if at first it looks dangerously like a clone." And other nuggets of praise. [www.nytimes.com]
    Not that most folks who read book reviews would buy Dan Brown or that most folks who buy Dan Brown read book reviews.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    09/15/09

    In reply to Happy Dan Brown Day
    Alex, you forgot about the Sudoku asspaper Yalies.

    [gawker.com]
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