{"id":2296,"date":"2005-09-16T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/codes-and-codas.html"},"modified":"2005-09-16T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T22:28:49","slug":"codes-and-codas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/codes-and-codas.html","title":{"rendered":"Codes and Codas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, now I think this is even a bit much for me: People writing books explaining Dan Brown’s next book before it’s published.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It  sounds like an Onion<\/em> headline, but two books now look not to Brown’s past but to his future\u2014or, rather, they look to his past so they can look to his future. <\/p>\n

Secrets of the Widow’s Son: The Mysteries Surrounding the Sequel to the Da Vinci Code b<\/em>y David Shugarts (with a foreword by leading Brownologist Dan Burstein), out from Sterling this week, is the more ambitious effort.It’s a parsing of fansites and Brown interviews as well as of the themes that seem to preoccupy the author in earlier books. Brown himself gets a treatment normally reserved for late, great thinkers ("It appears Brown has read and studied a variety of occult theories of Western cultural history") while material in previous books is "reverse-engineered" to determine where he’s going, both with the Freemasons in The Solomon Key <\/em>and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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