Big Bad Book Blog Links 1-18-07
By Aaron HierholzerFor the first time in its history, the Washington Post will be serializing fiction - specifically, business reporter David Hilzenrath’s debut novel JEZEBEL’S TOMB, a biblical mystery featuring a journalist who investigates a bombing and tries to track down a mysterious 2,000-year-old document that may hold a dangerous secret. Comparisons to THE DA VINCI CODE are inevitable.
With the release and critical success of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, an adaptation of a novel once considered impossible to film, what better time to look into the process of adaptation. Most movies these days are based on literary sources. Which is ironic, considering the increasing lack of interest in books these days as opposed to the spoon-fed thoughts offered by Hollywood.
It took him nearly 47 years, but Robert Nuranen finally returned his overdue library book. He also insisted on paying the library’s late fee — all $171.32 of it.
Unhappy that the company has decided not to delay its annual meeting set for January 24, Robert Robotti has resigned as a director of AMS. Robotti was named to the board late last year after he threatened to nominate an alternate slate of candidates to run for the company’s board.
The two historians who lost their plagiarism case against the British publishers of the best seller “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown turned to the Court of Appeal in Britain yesterday in an effort to reverse their loss in a case that also saddles them with a legal bill of more than $2 million, The Associated Press reported.
