martes, marzo 22, 2005

Dan Brown y El Código Da Vinci

No he leído el mencionado libro, ni lo tengo planeado por el momento. El original cuesta un poquitín más de lo que debería costar a mi parecer, tengo otros libros por leer y/o comprar, todavía no sale en bolsillo y no lo he encontrado en segunda mano aún. Ah, copias no compro. Pero bueno, no es de éso de lo que quería hablar sino del artículo/entrevista que le publican en el NYT. Trata principalmente de lo que han sido para Dan Brown estos dos años luego de la edición del Código Da Vinci, qué le ha cambiado en su vida y que no, y lo que lleva trabajando en su nueva novela, una especie de segunda parte del Código Da Vinci, aunque lo que adelanta es prácticamente nada.

Gone are the days when he could sit undisturbed in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, sketching out the murder scene that opens his blockbuster novel. He has stopped taking commercial flights because of the commotion that usually accompanies him, with people lining up in the aisle to get his autograph on books, cocktail napkins, even the occasional air-sickness bag. He has given almost no interviews over the last year, immersing himself instead in researching and writing the follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code," which will again feature Robert Langdon, the familiar Harvard religious scholar, and will be set in Washington and focus on the secretive world of the Freemasons.

Since its release on March 18, 2003, "The Da Vinci Code," Mr. Brown's fourth novel, has sold roughly 25 million copies in 44 languages around the world, including nearly 10 million hardcover copies in the North America. That is 10 times the average sales of industry titans like John Grisham and Nora Roberts, making the book one of the fastest-selling adult novels of all time. While most books move into paperback within a year of their original publication in hardcover, Mr. Brown's publisher, Doubleday, still has not scheduled a paperback release of "The Da Vinci Code." Starved fans, meanwhile, have snapped up everything else Mr. Brown has written: his three earlier novels, which produced barely a ripple when they were published, have now sold more than seven million copies, according to Nielsen BookScan. Based on traditional rates of author royalties, Mr. Brown has probably earned close to $50 million in the last two years from sales of his four books in the United States alone.

Y para los fans, una nota sobre el recientemente editado Las Claves del Código Da Vinci, y vaya, también hay Claves Ocultas Del Código Da Vinci de Enrique De Vicente. De la censura vaticana mejor ni hablar, que con el desmentido hecho ya parece parte de la campaña de marketing.

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