I just checked this morning and my Amazon Short The Use of the Bible in The Da Vinci Code is back on Bestseller List, currently at number 24 after a weekend surge. If you haven’t read it yet, invest .49 cents to discover what Dan Brown’s novel really says about the twelve specific Bible passages he references.
While you’re tackling one of today’s tope cultural issues, check out another emerging controversy in my recent work, Misquotes in Misquoting Jesus. It’s a quick read, providing the quick facts necessary to evaluate the ideas presented in the N.Y. Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus by Dr. Bart Ehrman.
The secret’s out: `Da Vinci’ mania fading – Yahoo! News
NEW YORK – It couldn’t last forever, right? Simmered by three years of lawsuits, religious debates and conspiracy theories, brought to a boil in May by the Hollywood movie, the craze for all things “Da Vinci Code” is finally fading, publishers and booksellers agree.
“I would definitely say it’s slowing down,” Barnes & Noble fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley says. “Once everybody got past the movie, the whole thing peaked.”
No more “Da Vinci” spinoffs. Yay!
I saw this coming two years ago when I published THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND.
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Amazon.com: American Theocracy Unpacked: Arguments Examined, Implications Explored, and a Way Forward Suggested: Books: W. Frederick Zimmerman
The Amazon page for AMERICAN THEOCRACY UNPACKED is up and ready! Pre-order from Amazon, or direct from the publisher for $19.94 + $1.59 Media Mail.
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When I began reading American Theocracy, the best-seller by Kevin Phillips, I felt almost immediately that this was an excellent and thought-provoking book that was so wrong about so many fundamental issues that it demanded a strong, immediate, and highly focused response. This book, American Theocracy Unpacked, takes advantage of electronic publishing technology to provide that “nimble” response, less than three months after I started reading Phillips’s book.
In American Theocracy Unpacked, I take a close, almost paragraph-by-paragraph look at Phillips’s arguments. I am confident that the result is respectful but stimulating. I acknowledge and applaud his many important insights, but I also suggest a way forward that is less fearful of an “American theocracy,” and, indeed, more hopeful for America and the world.
In the body of the book, I have used the informal, rather “bulletized” house style that Nimble Books has used to produce “living books” on subjects ranging from Harry Potter and Dan Brown to science, politics, technology, and medicine.
READ THIS BOOK IF …
- You thought American Theocracy was an important book.
- You are interested in a far-ranging, open-minded meditation on the issues Phillips raises.
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You are a Christian who is wondering how to be “salt and light” in a world that fears theocracy.
DON’T BOTHER IF …
- You are expecting me to disagree with everything in American Theocracy.
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You are expecting me to attack Kevin Phillips as a person.
- You aren’t willing to read American Theocracy.
HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED AND WHAT IT CONTAINS
This book follows the same structure as American Theocracy, with the addition of some introductory and interstitial comments.
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The Da Vinci Code Movie Photos – Da Vinci Code Photos, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou
Gallery of photos from the Columbia Pictures movie “The Da Vinci Code” featuring photos of Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Paul Bettany, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina and Jean Reno. (Photos © Columbia Pictures)
Defamer, the L.A. Gossip Rag: First Rumblings Of A ‘Da Vinci Code’ Disappointment
Based on the first reviews trickling in from an eve-of-premiere press screening of The Da Vinci Code at Cannes, this might be a good time for the Imagine assistants to make a busy-work project of re-alphabetizing the office take-out menu binder in anticipation of a possible office-lockdown lunch of shame once their bosses return to LA from their promotional rail tour on the Blasphemy Express. An early Da Vinci Code panning round-up (links in Defamer article):
· “The feeling moved quickly from one of great anticipation to one of, shockingly, great boredom…instead of the film building to a white knuckle conclusion, it was the audience fidgeting as Da Vinci passed the two-hour mark and unveiled the first of its half-dozen endings…by the time the big climactic moment of the film finally arrived, the audience burst out laughing, as if this were yet another classic bit of Tom Hanks comedy. As the credits rolled, not a single bit of applause was heard.” [FilmStew]
· “[R]eaction from Cannes critics ranged from mild endorsement of its potboiler suspense to groans of ridicule over its heavy melodrama. ‘It’s a movie about whether the greatest story ever told is true or not, and it’s not the greatest movie ever screened, is it?’ said Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London’s Daily Mail. ‘As a thriller, well,’ he continued, shrugging.” [AP]
· “‘Nothing really works. It’s not suspenseful. It’s not romantic. It’s certainly not fun,’ said Stephen Schaefer of the Boston Herald. ‘It seems like you’re in there forever. And you’re conscious of how hard everybody’s working to try to make sense of something that basically perhaps is unfilmable.’ [Reuters]
· “[D]irector Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have conspired to drain any sense of fun out of the melodrama, leaving expectant audiences with an oppressively talky film that isn’t exactly dull but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material; result is perhaps the best thing the project’s critics could have hoped for.” [Variety]
Uh-oh.
This reader knows not the journey he has begun
Reading The Da Vinci Code, “Harry Potter for adults” comes to mind. There’s a sense that writer Dan Brown and Potter author J. K. Rowling attended the same creative writing course.
“Tell the story using the simplest words you can,” their instructor might have advised. “You’re not writing poetry here. People aren’t looking for colour or rhythm or even a bon mot now and then; just tell the damn story.”
Ouch.
The game of Clue is quickly solved: It was the albino in the museum with the revolver.
But wait. Show me a mystery in which a murderous albino works for himself, and I’ll show you a flawed mystery.
Zing! Good one.
courant.com | ‘DaVinci’ A Godsend To Book Industry
Heckuva job, Brownie!
Dan Brown’s novel “The DaVinci Code” – which suggests Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the Catholic Church suppressed that history (and women in general) and the Renaissance genius’s paintings hide clues to the whole story – is a publishing phenomenon. The author may be a false prophet, but his profits are for real, and Friday will mark the book’s second coming, so to speak: the film version starring Tom Hanks.
The release of The Da Vinci Code movie is stirring the creative juices of the world’s reporters. Good one, Brownie!
PRESS RELEASE Move Over “Da Vinci Code”
Move Over “Da Vinci Code”
“The Key To Solomon’s Key” Ignites Historical Bombshell of ‘Biblical’ Proportions
MIDDLEFIELD, MA — (MARKET WIRE) — 05/16/2006 — Readers looking for an even more striking revelation will find it in a controversial new book that hits bookstores next week. “The Key To Solomon’s Key, Secrets of Magic and Masonry,” by Lon DuQuette, brings subjects of mystery and intrigue, Freemasonry, Knights Templar and King Solomon, to an astounding conclusion. DuQuette, a celebrated occult author and Mason, reveals for the first time an intricately woven connection between King Solomon’s legend and the Templar/Masonic legacy.
Loon alert.
Not that I shouldn’t take a glance or two in the mirror…
Updated May 2006 with 60 pages of new material!
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