[The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News] ‘Secrets’ unearths more ‘Da Vinci’ theories

‘Secrets’ unearths more ‘Da Vinci’ theories: “Dan Brown’s sequel to his superseller ‘The Da Vinci Code’ will not be out for perhaps a year. Or two. But that’s merely a pesky detail, brushed aside by the first book to take readers inside what may be the coming book’s pseudo-historical theories. Or not.

This is how overcaffeinated pop culture has become: a book that cracks the code of Brown’s next novel, before anyone really knows the code. ‘Surely in the history of literature — and I say literature with a small ‘l’ — this has happened before,’ says David A. Shugarts, author of ‘Secrets of the Widow’s Son: The Mysteries Surrounding the Sequel to ‘The Da Vinci Code’ ‘ (Sterling, 201 pages, $17.95). But he can’t think of any other example….

This new “Secrets” is a quick tour of every conspiracy theory or alternative history that’s ever been floated by a serious scholar or a guy muttering to himself on a street corner: the Illuminati, the Mormon Church, the Founding Fathers, the Boy Scouts, the Cabala, Skull and Bones, the Tarot, Stonehenge and the CIA….”

I took a different tack in my “Solomon Key” book, preferring to stay closer to authenticatable facts. The result is a shorter, but more reliable tome.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News at 10/10/2005 07:25:03 AM

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