A fully revised edition of Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller is about to hit bookstores, “Now with no factual errors.“
“It’s true that I let a few little mistakes go in the first edition,” said Brown. “Factual errors about Biblical history, early Christianity and Judaism, Catholic theology, Egyptian mythology, Mithraism, the origins and language of the New Testament and Gnostic Gospels, the Nicene Council, Emperor Constantine, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi texts, the history and modern organizational structure of Opus Dei, the history of the Vatican, interpretations of Leonardo’s Last Supper and Mona Lisa…”
It goes on. For a long and very funny while.
The new edition will have “absolutely bullet-proof historical detail,” plus “some new characters, more chase sequences, and a completely revised conspiracy.” The publication date is April 31.
(Via Maxine Clark, who I blame for causing me to waste the last hour laughing at 101 Reasons to Stop Writing. “5. I’ll just pad this out. ‘Padding: When you run out of ideas, but keep on writing. It’s also something insecure rockstars do to their crotches. The fluff covering the flaccid.’”)
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maxine // April 24, 2008 at 6:52 pm |
It was so funny, wasn’t it! I actually got taken in by it for about half the post, as I read it in RSS so didn’t notice which blog it was on. Nice to have such a laugh.
Maybe now they’ll make a movie “Da Vinci 1.75″ starring Matt Damon and featuring a chase through Waterloo Station before he realises that the train to Paris doesn’t go from there any more….Heaven help him when he tries to get on the tube line to King’s Cross St Pancras (my daily commute).