{"id":5313,"date":"2013-05-11T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2013-05-11T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:26:37","slug":"critics-abound-for-renowned-dan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5313","title":{"rendered":"Critics Abound for Renowned Dan Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lars shared this article on Facebook, and I was moved&#8211;moved I tell you&#8211;to share it here, because you can&#8217;t get good writing like this often: &#8220;The voice at the other end of the line gave a sigh, like a mighty oak toppling into a great river, or something else that didn\u2019t sound like a sigh if you gave it a moment\u2019s thought. &#8216;Who cares what the stupid critics say?&#8217; advised the literary agent. &#8216;They\u2019re just snobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/10049454\/Dont-make-fun-of-renowned-Dan-Brown.html\">You have millions of fans.<\/a>&#8216;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Deacon writes in response to the Dan Brown&#8217;s upcoming novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385537859\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0385537859&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Inferno<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0385537859\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, which if you are going to buy it, you must use this link. Must! Support starving artists!<\/p>\n<p>The novel is another unique take on art history and world conspiracy. From the book: &#8220;Against [the backdrop of Dante&#8217;s <i>Inferno<\/i>], Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1613824769\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1613824769&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Dante\u2019s dark epic poem<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1613824769\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dude! That is one unique thriller! I&#8217;ll go on record now by predicting this will tell of a Manx plot to manipulate world currency. Dante has been rumored to be Manx sympathizer among all the scholars who have studied him. Sorry, I should have given you a spoiler alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lars shared this article on Facebook, and I was moved&#8211;moved I tell you&#8211;to share it here, because you can&#8217;t get good writing like this often: &#8220;The voice at the other end of the line gave a sigh, like a mighty oak toppling into a great river, or something else that didn\u2019t sound like a sigh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critics Abound for Renowned Dan Brown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-goofing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}