I saw the link on Hollywood Wiretap, but the story about Seth Mnookin's story in a soon-to-sell issue of Vanity Fair that delves into allegations of plagiarism by Dan Brown in the writing of best-selling "The DaVinci Code" is on the website Editor & Publisher. The charge is that Brown appropriated portions of his novel from Lewis Perdue's "Daughter of God"....oops. Kind of a movie-plot spoiler just mentioning that title.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 6, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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Chris says ...
Jeffrey, I'm surprised a hip, baby boomer, counterculture type like yourself - not to mention virtually the entire publishing and other media establishment - isn't aware of how every book Dan Brown has written rips off ideas from ILLUMINATUS! the epic counterculture trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. From the Merovingians and married Jesus to the Illuminati and Freemasons, Brown has made millions ripping off ideas presented in a more entertaining fashion by others.
By the way, Brown's next book, more than rumored to involve a cabal of Freemasons secretly controlling the Beltway, is supposedly being rewritten by a ghostwriter to avoid further legal problems.
Brown is, quite simply, a hack.
Posted by Chris at June 6, 2006 6:18 PM
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delbomber says ...
...make that a bloody rich hack.
Posted by delbomber at June 6, 2006 9:25 PM