September 2009
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“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as...”
– George Orwell
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“Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.”
– J. G. Ballard
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“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went...”
– George Orwell
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“I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.”
– Arthur Miller, on Marilyn Monroe
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Roman Polanski Arrested
The Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody in Switzerland, believed to be over a 31-year-old US arrest warrant.The organisers of the Zurich film festival, at which 76-year-old Polanski had been due to accept a lifetime achievement award, did not specify the nature of the warrant. The director fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse...
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“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is...”
– Arthur Miller
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Telegraph lists Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences →
libraryland:cankerbloxxom:
If Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol is anything like his previous works, it will not go down well with the critics. Famously, comedian Stewart Lee mocked him for using the sentence “The famous man looked at the red cup” in his bestselling The Da Vinci Code.
They’re certainly harsh. Edinburgh professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum says “Brown’s...
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Bestsellers - Where Dan Brown Fits In
The Bible 2.5bn-6bn
The Qur’an 800m
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) 200m
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction on Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell (1908) 150m
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (1954-5) 150m
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 100m
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003) 81m
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)...
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