![]() ![]() It is the largest first print in the history of publisher Random House worldwide and the massive launch has been hailed as the biggest literary event since JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows two years ago.īut Pullman, who has himself sold about 15,000,000 books, says that although Brown’s work has captured the popular imagination, it has little literary merit. The thriller, which will again feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, hit the shelves yesterday with a global English language first print run of 6,500,000 copies. ![]() ![]() HE may be the publishing phenomenon of the decade whose religious conspiracy theories have captivated the world, but one of the country’s most high-profile novelists has called Dan Brown’s writing “flat, stunted and ugly”.Īuthor Philip Pullman made the comments as Brown’s much-anticipated follow-up to the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, yesterday sparked a buying frenzy at book shops around the UK. ![]()
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