Wed 10 May 2006 - Dan Brown vs iPods
Word on the street is that if you want to see any movies, do so this weekend, because by the following weekend they’ll have all been swept away by blanket screenings of the bloody Da Vinci Code.
On the train, which do you think there’s more of? Dan Brown books, or iPods?
Dan Brown books are still selling well, but market growth is probably slowing, as just about everybody who would be inclined to read it must have just about finished it by now. Of course, those who weren’t put off by what they read (like I was) might go and buy another one.
iPods are still growing rapidly in number though, and I would think would have a better longer-term outlook.
There don’t seem to be that many people reading Dan Brown while listening to an iPod, though.
May 10th, 2006 at 9:16am
I didn’t like much DaVinci Code end… I will not tell it.. don’t worry…. I think Angels and Demons is a much better book….
On the other hand… I can’t wait to have my Ipod in Australia…. You can’t buy an Ipod here because of the high price (much much more higher than in the USA).
May 10th, 2006 at 9:40am
I thought the book was okay. The historical information it contained was more interesting than the story itself and I thought some of it was written in a fairly basis manner (if that makes sense).
My daughter got a free iPod with a phone she bought and sold it on eBay for the same price as what it retails.
May 10th, 2006 at 10:05am
How about those listening to the audiobook? Or those who will download the film in iPod format from bittorrent sites?
May 10th, 2006 at 1:10pm
The really scary thing? DB reckons he’s got at least another dozen novels staring that insipid professor planned. ARRRGGGGHHH!!! I can feel the world getting dumber by the minute. The man should just get someone else to write for him. Keep the intriguing historical bits, but get rid of the awful stories.
May 10th, 2006 at 3:03pm
Just what do you folks mean by ‘historical’? It’s not a text book, it doesn’t contain facts. It’s a novel.
May 10th, 2006 at 3:46pm
Worst. Book. Ever.
May 10th, 2006 at 6:28pm
DB DaVinci Code, I read it simply because it got the best publicity ever, the Church forbade people to read it, it’s still a piece of badly written simplistic twaddle though.
If you want to read a far better, and far more chalenging book, try Focault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Far better consiracy theory novel by someone who knows his stuff.
And unlike DB he doesn’t try to pretend it’s all true.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:12am
Philip - theory then, if you want to pick nits.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:21pm
I would love to do both because reading and listening to music r my favorite pass times. And as far as the book is concerned its one of the bestellers till date.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:31pm
I would go for both of them as reading and listening to music r my favorite passtimes. And as far as the book is concerned its a bestseller till date. So no choice for me.
May 13th, 2006 at 10:51pm
So now i m confused between the two.I would like to have both of them simultaneously. That would rock!
May 17th, 2006 at 2:45am
What a bunch of hype and hoohaa. Written for ignoramuses who thought history came from nowhere. Happy dance with historical paraphernalia, though.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:33pm
How many people, do you think, have not read the Da Vinci Code and dont own an iPod?