wfz
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The Solomon Key and Beyond: Unauthorized Dan Brown Update (Nimble Books) is now available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007NAFA0/internetbookinfo
in paperback, PDF, and Microsoft Reader formats. 96 pp.; e-books are color with hyperlinks.
Free review copy available to anyone who promises to write a review on Amazon.com -- email me at external@nimblebooks.com.
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shad
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I just ordered this book and I can't wait to get it and start reading. Ciao for now,
SS
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Demons_of_Angels
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so wot is the point of tis book?
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8549176320abc
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Could we have that last post translated into English?
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Governments offer us safety for our freedom. It is by seeing this safety as false that we are freed.
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danaholic
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I'm re-reading A&D and Da Vinci Code again to pass the time...
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Dazzle
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danaholic said:
I'm re-reading A&D and Da Vinci Code again to pass the time...
Why don't you read something completely different?
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Sophie_2005
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we know you hate dan brown. but SOME people like to read his books so quit telling people to read other books when there quite happy reading books by Dan Brown!!!
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Sephia
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hehe. I am passing the time with Harry Potter. is that better or worse?
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Dazzle
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hehe. I am passing the time with Harry Potter. is that better or worse?
It's a step up. 
Seriously though, there's a world of writing out there and it saddens me to see that people talk about re-reading pulp fiction when there's very little to take away from it. Sometimes, I feel, when they have read very little - so little as to say that Brown is a great writer - I honestly can't take their opinions on board with respect to what is good and bad.
Sadly there's so many great writers* out there who people don't give the time of day because they are only interested in the latest from John Grisham, Stephen King, Anne Rice, James Patterson, etc.
* Italo Calvino, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, JG Ballard, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jorge Luis Borges, and then new writers (at least to us) such as Khaled Hosseini, Ismail Kadare and the exceptionally different House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
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lehighhistorian
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People do "get something out of fiction." While it is not a history book, they get something that economists would call "utility." People get their "utility" from different things. You might not like Dan Brown's books, but other do. Just the same way that you probably do not like the movies that I like; we have different tastes. That, to me, is what makes the world go round. Why does everyone have to be like YOU? Why do people, like yourself, feel the need to criticize everyone that is NOT LIKE YOU! Difference is ideal, as I would never want to be as close minded as yourself.
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Dazzle
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lehighhistorian said:
Why does everyone have to be like YOU? Why do people, like yourself, feel the need to criticize everyone that is NOT LIKE YOU!
You're making stuff up as you go along. Nowhere did I say anything of that sort. I'm simply concerned for literature and confused at people saying they are "rereading" Brown's books. If they love reading so much then how's about they widen their tastes?
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Sephia
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Wow. I only read one of those "great writers" which is kinda depressing. Could you possibly consider adding Alexander Dumas, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Milton, Dostoevsky, Lao Tzu, Epictetus, Plato and a few dozen others?
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Dazzle
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Quote:
Sephia said:
Wow. I only read one of those "great writers" which is kinda depressing. Could you possibly consider adding Alexander Dumas, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Milton, Dostoevsky, Lao Tzu, Epictetus, Plato and a few dozen others?
Certainly, although I was referring to new releases from current living writers. Althoughg Borges did seem to slip into my contemporary list. 
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Sephia
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ahh
contemporary great writers are a bit harder, since most are not appreciated until after they have died.
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Langdon
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Quote:
wfz said:
The Solomon Key and Beyond: Unauthorized Dan Brown Update (Nimble Books) is now available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007NAFA0/internetbookinfo
in paperback, PDF, and Microsoft Reader formats. 96 pp.; e-books are color with hyperlinks.
Free review copy available to anyone who promises to write a review on Amazon.com -- email me at external@nimblebooks.com.
yea i actually jus downloaded it today, but i cant view. At 1st it was b/c i had no MS Reader, but evn once i downloaded that and activated it, i still cant read it. It won't load up .
Can any 1 help ? 
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Langdon
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so no 1 can offer ne help ?
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Zel
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Dan brown beats harry potter!
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Dazzle
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Zel said:
Dan brown beats harry potter!
One's a hack and one's a character - how could they possibly be compared?
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Sephia
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Dazzle.... please?
Though I agree that comparing an AUTHOR and a character is impossible.
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AAnnAArchy
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Dan Brown couldn't beat Harry Potter. Harry is a wizard. Sheesh, people.
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Dazzle
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Robert Langdon enjoyed the look on others' faces when he told them that Harry Potter wasn't real.
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Sephia
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Lol.
At which point Harry Potter turned up and Avada Kedavra'd Langdon's sorry ass.
(which is totally out of character, but, oh well.
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Zel
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Nono, Dan Brown was an English Teacher, he could write an ultimate spell book that really makes the user self-destruct, and then replace it with Harry's spellbook.
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Dazzle
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Zel said:
Dan Brown was an English Teacher
That really disturbs me. I hope it was English literature rather than any form of creative writing.
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wfz
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I stopped sending out review copies because not enough people were doing reviews! If you are still interested, please send me a note at wfz@nimblebooks.com.
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