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How does one top The Da Vinci Code?
Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code was the top selling book from the past decade. It sold in the gazillions. That’s a lot of books.
Brown’s next book has been a long time in coming. Eagerly awaited. Much delayed. What’s the hurry? Brown doesn’t need the money. He could retire right now.
Even so, Brown has forged ahead and his new book The Lost Symbol will be published on September 15. There it is at number #1 on Amazon.com. It shot straight to the top of the best-sellers on Amazon the moment it was announced. Expect it to occupy that lofty perch all summer long and when the book actually comes out it will sell like ice cream in the desert, or at least that is what Brown’s publishers hope will happen.
Can Dan Brown capture lightning in a jar again? Can it happen twice? I see his chances as being slim to none. Even if he sells 10 million copies it won’t be enough. Amazing, but true. The bar is simply set too high to replicate that level of success. It won’t be a failure, mind you, but it isn’t the Second Coming, either.
I had a chance to interview Dan Brown on my radio show when The Da Vinci Code first came out. I turned it down. Who knew? I have been wrong before and I’m sure that I will be wrong again lots of times.
Note: the generic book cover explains that “this is not the final book jacket.” I wonder if I can get an interview with Dan Brown for this book? I suppose there’s a better chance of winning the lottery? I wonder if they remember that I turned down that interview before?
Good luck, Danny Boy!
Vick Mickunas
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By irishguy
April 24, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this
Don’t feel too bad Vick, I recall a story about the record label exec who didn’t sign the Beatles because “gutiar bands are on the way out”. It could of been worse.