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Dec 09

She Will Not Be Able To Resist His Scholarly Charms

Lost Symbol coverThe time has finally arrived. The official launch of The Chaos Factory website. And to kick things off, we have a special event I mentioned a couple of months ago.

The Great Dan Brown Experiment will take place this coming Saturday, December 19th. Over the course of 24 hours (I hope) I will be reading The Lost Symbol, and live blogging about the experience. For those of you in the Western Hemisphere, the fun begins your Friday night. Please join me in order to provide the moral support I undoubtedly will need to devote an entire 24 hours to Dan Brown.

A little background. I read The Da Vinci Code a couple years ago, wondering what all the fuss was about. (And if you are unsure what I mean by fuss, as I mentioned earlier, The Da Vinci Code is already the 8th best selling novel of ALL TIME!) I found it annoyingly compelling, because even though I disliked everything about it, I finished it in 2 or 3 days. It was like I was riding my bike past a truck carrying a shipment of scissors that had crashed into a mental hospital. I could not look away.

So I have decided to relive the experience with The Lost Symbol. Will it be better than the Da Vinci code? Did Dan Brown take the tens of millions of dollars he has earned in royalties to enroll in a basic writing course? Will I live through the weekend or will I choke on my own bile? Will there be a beautiful, young love interest for Robert Langdon who cannot help but fall for his scholarly charms? All these questions will be answered this Saturday.

Remember, all of this takes place right here at entropy2.com.

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18
Oct 09

The Great Dan Brown Experiment

zenWe interrupt our regular scheduled blogging for two important announcements.

First, Dance With Sunflowers will soon migrate to a new location, at entropy2.com. The process of starting up the new website and switching over will take another month or two, and in the meantime I will continue posting here. The new site will include several new blogs and other exciting endeavors I will tell you about later. Be on the look out.

Second, as part of the new website, I will be conducting my first live blogging event. I will be reading Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol, over the course of 24 hours, with a running journal of my reactions. Join me as I experience the best selling book (2 million copies sold in the first week) for the first time, with immediate feedback on what will surely go down as a modern classic.

Of course, being invested in the novel might influence my impartiality. So I am looking for someone who will loan it to me in the next few weeks. Please do not buy it with the specific intention of giving it to me, as that will defeat the purpose. But if you already have it, I will be happy to take it off your hands.

When I have a date for the Live Blogging session, as well as the debut of the new website, I will let everyone know.

To whet your appetite, here are some facts about Dan Brown’s previous novel, The Da Vinci Code:

  • According to Wikipedia, it has sold more than 80 million copies to date.
  • 80 MILLION! That equals The Catcher In The Rye, and easily surpasses Charlotte’s Web, To Kill A Mockingbird, or Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
  • That’s right, more than the dictionary
  • In fact, the only novels to have sold more books in the history of humankind are: Le Petit Prince, She, Dream Of Red Chambers, The Hobbit, And Then There Were None, The Lord Of The Rings, and A Tale Of Two Cities. That’s it. The entire list. The Da Vinci Code is already the 8th best selling novel of all time
  • It is almost entirely based on the Umberto Eco novel, Foucault’s Pendulum, which predates it by more than a decade.

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