Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including the recent record-breaking The Lost Symbol, which had the biggest one-week sale in Random House history for a single title. His previous title, The Da Vinci Code, has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, making it one of the bestselling novels of all time. In addition to numerous appearances on The Today Show, Mr. Brown was named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine. He has appeared in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels are published in over 50 languages around the world
Biography
Novelist Dan Brown may not have invented the literary thriller, but his groundbreaking tour de force The Da Vinci Code -- with its irresistible mix of religion, history, art, and science -- is the gold standard for a flourishing genre.
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1964, Brown attended Phillips Exeter Academy (where his father taught), and graduated from Amherst with a double major in Spanish and English. After college he supported himself through teaching and enjoyed moderate success as a musician and songwriter.
Brown credits Sidney Sheldon with jump-starting his literary career. Up until 1994, his reading tastes were focused sharply on the classics. Then, on vacation in Tahiti, he stumbled on a paperback copy of Sheldon's novel The Doomsday Conspiracy. By the time he finished the book, he had decided he could do as well. There and then, he determined to try his hand at writing. His first attempt was a pseudonymously written self-help book for women co-written with his future wife Blythe Newlon. Then, in 1998, he published his first novel, Digital Fortress -- followed in swift succession by Angels and Demons and Deception Point. None the three achieved commercial success.
Then, in 2003, Brown hit the jackpot with his fourth novel, a compulsively readable thriller about a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon who stumbles on an ancient conspiracy in the wake of a shocking murder in the Louvre. Combining elements from art, science, and religion, The Da Vinci Code became the biggest bestseller in publishing history, inspiring a big-budget movie adaptation and fueling interest in the author's back list. In 2009, Brown continued Robert Langdon's esoteric adventures with The Lost Symbol, a tale of intrigue that, like its predecessors, takes readers on a wild ride into the sinister mysteries of the past.
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Brown revealed the inspiration for his labyrinthine thriller during a writer's address in Concord, New Hampshire. "I was studying art history at the University of Seville (in Spain), and one morning our professor started class in a most unusual way. He showed us a slide of Da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper"... I had seen the painting many times, yet somehow I had never seen the strange anomalies that the professor began pointing out: a hand clutching a dagger, a disciple making a threatening gesture across the neck of another... and much to my surprise, a very obvious omission, the apparent absence on the table of the cup of Christ... The one physical object that in many ways defines that moment in history, Leonardo Da Vinci chose to omit." According to Brown, this reintroduction to an ancient masterpiece was merely "the tip of the ice burg." What followed was an in-depth explanation of clues apparent in Da Vinci's painting and his association with the Priory of Sion that set Brown on a path toward bringing The Da Vinci Code into existence.
If only all writers could enjoy this kind of success: in early 2004, all four of Brown's novels were on the New York Times Bestseller List in a single week!
In our interview with Brown, he shared some of his writing rituals:
"If I'm not at my desk by 4:00 a.m., I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hourglass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do push-ups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood -- and ideas -- flowing.
"I'm also a big fan of gravity boots. Hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code , Angels & Demons , and The Lost Symbol , Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno .
Against this backdrop, 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 Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.
我从来没看过《神曲》。 到今天早上七点,花了一夜时间看完了Dan Brown的Langdon系列新书,Inferno。我想作者大概已经全心全意专宠Robert Langdon以至于读者如我开始同情一个教授在这些年间受到的种种生死考验。总体来说,这本书比上一本《The Lost Symbol》还是水平上稍有好...
评分差一点让我以为有搅基情节,丹布朗文笔十年如一日。后半段土耳其部分宛如在看花样姐姐……丹布朗的小说总有一个共性,妄图毁灭世界的永远是最先进的科技,而拯救世界的关键存在于古老神秘的符号学,反正两头我们都不懂正好瞎忽悠。当然主人公是打不死的兰登教授,文职工作者拯...
评分开始读的时候感觉这本书就是为了拍电影写的,套路很一般,开头小高潮,然后阐述由来,然后在高潮,然而最后的高潮也没有很惊心动魄。但是书中提出的问题很让人思考,给出的答案其实还是蛮有新意的。人类繁殖的太快,终究资源会枯竭。如果是你,要怎么解决这个问题呢? 这本书...
评分 评分已经不太记得达芬奇密码讲的是什么故事了,只记得是一口气看完的。这本书应该和达挺像的,一如既往的有很多和艺术相关的东西,不知道丹布朗是不是在艺术方面很有造诣。不过我觉得我的空间感真是奇差,凡事他描绘的跟方位有关的东西都没办法在脑海里形成一个具体的形象,很困扰...
剧情布局比起以往套路有所变化突破,甚至某个段落还用上了叙诡,但是谜题设计上却大失水准,反倒不及前作失落秘符那个无比华丽的大幻方。但丁神曲的引用十分表面化,艺术品和谜题的嵌套关系也不够紧密,谜题存在的动机更是至终都没有解释的严重大bug一个。
评分虽然还是一口气看完,但没有丹.布朗其他小说编的有耐心,最后竟然陷入“其实大家都是自己人”的路数上来了。不过还是决心以后好好游览一番佛罗伦萨,现代意大利语,哼哼。不喜欢中文版封面,所以标记了这个版本。
评分叙诡太坑爹了。
评分虽然还是一口气看完,但没有丹.布朗其他小说编的有耐心,最后竟然陷入“其实大家都是自己人”的路数上来了。不过还是决心以后好好游览一番佛罗伦萨,现代意大利语,哼哼。不喜欢中文版封面,所以标记了这个版本。
评分真没想到Z博士制造出来的瘟疫不是鼠疫,也不是什么马上能令人致死的病毒,而是让地球三分之一人口不能生育的基因变异。兰登教授只是个art 专家,竟被扯进这么一个任务旋涡,堪比007了啊,故事立意虽高,呼吁人们重视人口膨胀对人类的危害,但真的有点勉强了。
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