Dan Brown's former publisher has a new job. Stephen Rubin, who resigned last month from Random House Inc., said Tuesday that he will be the new president and publisher of Henry Holt and Company, where authors include Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin. Rubin was the longtime head of the Broadway Doubleday division of Random House and published John Grisham, Pat Conroy and Brown, whose "The Da Vinci Code" is among the best-selling novels in... Read Full Story
Title: The Lost Symbol Author: Dan Brown Reader: Paul Michael Audiobook 2009 Unabridged Length: 17 hours
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The wait was five years for the next in the Robert Langdon series that includes Angels & Demons and the incredibly successful The Da Vinci Code.
The wait is now over and it certainly wasn’t worth it. To summarize – The Lost Symbol is an overwrought, action less, poorly constructed book that never rises above the pedestrian, and... Read Full Story
Exeter, NH native Dan Brown recently released his fifth novel, The Lost Symbol , continuing the story of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon.
The thriller–a sequel to Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code –takes place in Washington D.C., where Langdon must investigate the kidnapping of Freemason Peter Solomon. The villainous Mal’akh holds Solomon hostage and threatens to release a video of power-brokers practicing Masonic ritual, demanding that Langdon unlock the Ancient... Read Full Story
The mind of Dan Brown may be a cluster of codes, but in person he appears no more mysterious than your average tennis partner. He is that smiling, sandy-haired man with the dimpled chin you know from the jacket flap of "The Da Vinci Code," the sporty looking fellow in blazer and slacks. After six years of letting his work do the talking — a conversation that whispered and screamed across the globe — he is back, at least briefly, to promote his new novel, "The Lost Symbol," and to reflect on... Read Full Story
The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the center and high ceiling painted with gold stars. Countless secrets supposedly have been shared in this and thousands of similar rooms around the world. Facts of life have been debated, honors bestowed, rituals enacted. You would need to belong to a lodge to learn what really goes on. Or you could simply ask. "The emphasis on... Read Full Story
The man who published "The Da Vinci Code" is resigning. Stephen Rubin, a publishing executive since 1984 whose authors have included Dan Brown, John Grisham and Pat Conroy, said Thursday that he was stepping down as executive vice president and publisher-at-large of Random House Inc., effective Oct. 2. "I have had the privilege of publishing and working closely with some of the greatest authors in the world," Rubin, 67, said in a statement Thursday. "So what's next? I am in serious... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hotly anticipated follow-up to author Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" was released on Tuesday amid positive reaction from critics but the American novelist admitted he was under pressure to sell well. "The Lost Symbol" comes six years after Brown's last book and again follows the adventures of Harvard professor Robert Langdon. It hit U.S. bookstores at midnight with an unusually large print run of 5 million copies and expectations the book can revive the publishing... Read Full Story
The books are under guard, the plot's secret, the author silent, but all that will change when Dan Brown's latest conspiracy potboiler, "The Lost Symbol," is unleashed Tuesday. Extraordinary measures have been taken to keep the sequel to 2003 mega hit "The Da Vinci Code" under wraps, right down to posting guards in book warehouses. But much as in Brown's tangled -- some say nonsensical -- plots about secret societies, the Catholic Church, and symbologist Robert Langdon, not everything is as... Read Full Story
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Author Dan Brown may have outraged the Vatican in "The Da Vinci Code," but his new book, "The Lost Symbol," is being welcomed by his latest subjects, the Freemasons. Brown's novel, released on Tuesday, again features the fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, with the story taking place over a 12-hour period in Washington. But while the fictional story lines about conspiracy and the Catholic Church in "The Da Vinci Code" caused an uproar among... Read Full Story
After hitting top selling records through “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons”, Dan Brown is back again with a marvelous piece of The Lost Symbol . The book is released all over the world in September 2009, with 528 numbers of pages. This new book is preceded by “The Da Vinci Code”. It simply means Robert Langdon is back with his immeasurable knowledge of Illuminati, Freemasons, Symbolism and Cryptography.
This new book, fifth book by Dan Brown, is over a period of twelve hours in... Read Full Story
