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1. Inferno is the fourth book in Brown's

Robert Langdon series.
2. Doubleday released Inferno on May
14, 2013.
3. A passage from the book is taken from
the art work with the longest history of
crimes against it, a series of four
articles discussing the long and
tumultuous history of the Four Horses
of the Basilica San Marco written by
Judge Arthur Tompkins.
4. After prompting readers to help reveal
a digital mosaic using social media
posts, Brown released the book's title
on his website on January 15, 2013
then revealed the cover in late
February 2013.
5. Brown official UK publishers,
Transworld publishers, released the
official book trailer on Youtube.
6. Amazon, Google Play and Barnes &
Nobles distributed the ebook for free
until March 24, 2013.
7. Inferno has been translated and
simultaneously released in languages
French, Turkish, German, Dutch,
Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese,

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Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and

Danish.
8. The publishers hired a team of eleven
translators who worked on the project
at the headquarters of Mondadori in
Milan between February and April
2012. They were reportedly
sequestered in a basement, and
worked intensively under strict security
and secrecy.
9. The Robert Langdon series holds the
record for being the 7th highest selling
series of all time.
10. Dantes nightmare vision becomes
the books visual correlative for what
its scientific calculations suggest.
11. Brown was born in Exeter, New
Hampshire on June 22, 1964.
12. Brown's novels are always treasure
hunts set in a 24-hour period, and
feature the recurring themes of
cryptography, keys, symbols, codes,
and conspiracy theories.
13. The Da Vinci Code and Angels &
Demons, two of Brown's books, have
been adapted into films.

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14. As of 2012 Brown's books have sold

over 200 million copies and have been
translated into 52 languages.
15. Brown's parents raised Brown an
Episcopalian.
16. Brown's father, Richard G. Brown, was a
teacher of mathematics in Phillips Exeter
Academy, where Brown spent most of
his childhood.
17. Having served as church choir masters,
both of Browns parents are musicians,
with his mother also serving as church
organist.
18. Brown was enrolled in an art history
course at the University of Seville in
Spain.
19. In 1986, Brown graduated from
Amherst.
20.Brown is one of the highest selling
authors of all time having sold 200
million books, reaching these sales puts
him on top of the list with only 6 books.
21.The Independent said that Brown has
retained all the advantages of surprise
in his novel.
22.From The Financial Times: "Brown writes
like a tour guide to stress the fame of

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the places and art treasures we glimpse

along the way."
23."He is justly derided as a bad writer,
but he is a good storyteller and sets his
attractive characters in compelling
locations." wrote Susanna Morrill
24.Bilge': A. N. Wilson thought Dan
Brown's new novel was 'twaddle' but
still highly entertaining.
25.James Kidd said this about the book:
"Its twisty pleasures are an advance on
The Da Vinci Code
26.Dan Brown's description of Manila as
"the gates of hell" in Inferno has
brought much anger from the
Philippines.
27.Metropolitan Manilas Chairman, Francis
Tolentino, wrote an open letter to
Brown, "we are greatly disappointed by
your inaccurate portrayal of our beloved
metropolis".
28.Susanna Morrill said, "I think that
Browns popularity also comes from his
ability to touch on big cultural issues
and questionssometimes overtly and
sometimes more indirectlyin familiar,
reassuring ways. He touches on them,

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but doesnt resolve them for the

reader."
29.USA Today highly acclaims the novel
by saying "As close as a book can
come to a summertime cinematic
blockbuster..."
30.The Wall Street Journal wrote, "Dan
Brown is the master of the intellectual
cliffhanger."
31.A real organization, The Association
for Research into Crimes Against Art,
and its blog, is mentioned in the novel.
32. Tom Hanks reprising his role as Robert
Langdon in a film adaptation to be
released on December 18, 2015 by
Sony Pictures, with Ron Howard as
director, David Koepp adapting the
screenplay.
33.Robert Langdon, a fictional character,
has his own website.
34.Zobrist, the villain, is a wealthy
Malthusian with a powerful, secretive,
high-tech army at his command (which
Brown says is real, but he has given it
the Consortium as a fake name) and
a doomsday plot to implement.

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35.This is Browns fourth book starring

Robert Langdon, and his formula is
well established by now.
36.Brown is fond of reversals of
character, where a bad turn out to be
good and vice versa.
37.A dying person who decides to leave
enigmatic clues is one of Brown's
standard plot devices.
38.The character, Jonas Faukman, the
editor, is loosely based, or not so
loosely based, on Brown's editor, Jason
Kaufman.
39.His huge success as a writer is often
attributed to his recurring themes of
keys, symbols, codes and conspiracy
theories.
40.The audiobook version of Inferno also
topped the iTunes audiobook charts.

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41.Dan Brown said the character Robert

Langdon "the man he wishes he could
be".
42.Lead character Langdon is a successful
scholar who is named after John
Langdon, a professor of typography at
Drexel University who is known for his
creation of ambigrams.
43.Joseph Campbell is one of the
inspirations for Langdon.
44.Brown has spent a lot of time abroad,
especially in Europe, where he is
fascinated by art.
45.Inferno has intentionally picked three
of the worlds most strategically
significant, antiquity-rich cities as its
settings.
46. Brown wants to alert his readers to
serious issues. In Inferno, there are two
trans humanism and over-population.
47.Dante of the same name bases
Inferno, on the famous work.
48.Brown said "As I was researching this
book, I talked to a number of doctors
and read an enormous amount on
viruses and genetic engineering and all
sorts of things. And what I heard
everywhere from everyone was the

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genetic toolbox is so powerful that

there really is nothing we can't do. I
would say can we do this, can we do absolutely. And finally they just stopped
me and said, look, anything you can
dream of doing to the human species,
we can now do. The only thing that
stops us is money and ethics."
49.Brown's argues that human population
will soon surpass the capacities of
Earth.
50.Inferno takes a 21st-century spin
through a hell of man-made microbes,
pandemics and human overpopulation.
51.Brown states on his website that his
books are not anti-Christian, though he
is on a 'constant spiritual journey'
himself, and says that his book The Da
Vinci Code is simply "an entertaining
story that promotes spiritual discussion
and debate" and suggests that the
book may be used "as a positive
catalyst for introspection and
exploration of our faith."
52.Where codes and ciphers were the
linchpin tying together the
mathematics, music and languages in
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interest in secrets and puzzles stems

from their presence in his household as
a child.
53.Brown was named one of the 100 Most
Influential People in the World by TIME
Magazine in 1995.
54.Dalliance is a record company founded
by Brown himself in 1990 he also
published a CD entitled Perspective,
targeted to the adult market, which also
sold a few hundred copies.
55.Brown moved to Hollywood to be a
pianist and singer-songwriter in 1991.
He also taught at Beverly Hills in order
to support himself.
56.Brown met his wife, Blythe Newlon,
when he joined the National Academy of
Songwriters. Blythe was 12 years his
senior. They married in 1997.
57.Brown is currently working on a new
book and is also focusing on the film
adaptation of Inferno by Columbia
Pictures.
58.Brown released a CD in 1994 titled
Angels & Demons. John Langdon is the
one who made its artwork, which
Brown used later for the novel Angel &
Demons.

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59.Brown was inspired to write thrillers

when he read Sidney Sheldon while on
a holiday in 1993.
60.Brown and his wife wrote a humor
book titles "187 Men to Avoid: A Guide
for the Romantically Frustrated
Woman" under the pseudonym
"Danielle Brown."
61."Brown is at his best when he makes
readers believe that dusty books and
musty passageways are just covers for
ancient global conspiracies." wrote
The Washington Post
62.The New York Times described the
book as being "jam packed with
tricks".
63.The New York Daily News reviewed the
book favorably, calling it a book of
"harrowing fun threaded with coded
messages."
64.James Kidd of The Independent
expressed much approval of the book's
plot.
65.Chuck Leddy of The Bostons Globe
deemed it "the kind of satisfying
escapist read that summers were made
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66.The Express Tribunes Samra Amir was

critical of the predictability and
malapropism found in the novel.
67.Writing for The Guardian, Peter Conrad
portrayed the books content as
"conspiratorial farrago."
68.EW.com posted "A diverting thriller
Brown stocks his latest book with all the
familiar elements: puzzles, a beautiful
female companion, and hints of secret
conspiratorial agendas."
69.Inferno soared to the top of the UK book
chart in its first week in the shops,
selling 228,961 copies, which was no
surprise as it had had the highest
number of pre-orders since JK Rowling's
The Casual Vacancy.
70.Langdon was raised a Catholic, but that
he will never understand God; then in
Angels & Demons, he told Camerlengo
that faith is a gift he has yet to receive.
71.Inferno boasts a scene in which
Browns Harvard symbolist hero Robert
Langdon begs his editor to book him a
private jet. We dont have access to
private jets for authors of tomes about
religious history, says the editor. If you

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want to write Fifty Shades Of

Iconography, we can talk.
72.Despite the author's impressive record
of overall sales - which have already
exceeded 200 million - and Inferno
becoming an instant chart-topper, a lot
of critics thought he has again come
under fire for his writing abilities.
73.Brown isnt just a novelist; hes a
crossover pop culture sensation. Brown
sells tens of millions of copies of every
historical thriller-mystery he writes.
74.Brown sets Inferno in Western Europe
featuring Robert Langdon on the run
while attempting to prevent a deadly
virus from spreading across the world.
75.To get hold of Inferno, eager fans
queued outside the Waterstones store
in London's Piccadilly.
76.Inferno sold 369,000 copies at outlets
that report to Nielsen BookScan.
77.It was number one on the New York
Times Best Seller list for hardcover
fiction and Combined Print & E-book
fiction for the first ten weeks of its
release, and also remained on the list of
E-book fiction for the first thirteen weeks
of its release.

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78.Inferno was at the top of the UK's book

charts in its first week, selling 228,961
copies and also debuted as the #1
bestselling book in the USA.

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79.Langdon was raised a Catholic, but

that he will never understand God; then
in Angels & Demons, he told
Camerlengo that faith is a gift he has
yet to receive.
80.Inferno boasts a scene in which
Browns Harvard symbolist hero Robert
Langdon begs his editor to book him a
private jet. We dont have access to
private jets for authors of tomes about
religious history, says the editor. If you
want to write Fifty Shades Of
Iconography, we can talk.
81.Despite the author's impressive record
of overall sales - which have already
exceeded 200 million - and Inferno
becoming an instant chart-topper, a lot
of critics thought he has again come
under fire for his writing abilities.
82.Brown isnt just a novelist; hes a
crossover pop culture sensation. Brown
sells tens of millions of copies of every
historical thriller-mystery he writes.
83.Brown sets Inferno in Western Europe
featuring Robert Langdon on the run
while attempting to prevent a deadly
virus from spreading across the world.

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84.To get hold of Inferno, eager fans

queued outside the Waterstones store
in London's Piccadilly.
85.It was number one on the New York
Times Best Seller list for hardcover
fiction and Combined Print & E-book
fiction for the first ten weeks of its
release, and also remained on the list
of E-book fiction for the first thirteen
weeks of its release.
86.Inferno was at the top of the UK's book
charts in its first week, selling 228,961
copies and also debuted as the #1
bestselling book in the USA.
87.Their father always plans treasure
hunts that Brown and his siblings would
participate in on birthdays and
holidays.
88.That of Brown and his fathers
relationship inspired Sophie Neveu and
Jacques Sauniere relationship in The Da
Vinci Code, and Chapter 23 of that
novel was inspired by one of his
childhood treasure hunts.
89.To fully focus on his writing, Brown quit
teaching in 1996.
90.With fewer than 10,000 copies in each
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three novels had little success. Brown

wrote Angels & Demons released in
2000, followed by Deception Point,
released in 2001.
91.Inferno has not been a hit with critics
who often center on Brown's "clumsy
writing".
92.Waterstones spokesman Jon Howells
had high expectations of the book by
telling Reuters: "We think it's going to
be the fastest and biggest-selling book
of the year.
93.It has managed to top the Amazon book
sales chart on the strength of its preorders, which were 24% higher than
those for Brown's previous offering, The
Lost Symbol.
94.One book reviewer has described it as
his "his worst book yet".
95.Amazon has said interest in Inferno has
had a knock-on effect for Brown's back
catalogue, with sales for his books
rising by 340% year on year as
anticipation has grown.
96.Dan Brown's Inferno remained #1 on
Nielsen BookScan for the week ending
May 26, selling 211,000 copies and
bringing its two-week total to 580,000.

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Despite slipping 42% in its second

week, Inferno far outpaced the #2
book, Khaled Hosseini's And the
Mountains Echoed, which posted a
debut of 91,000 copies.
97.Inferno has a transhumanist villain in
addition to Browns usual mix of
Renaissance and Medieval European
art, obscure symbolism, secrets and
conspiracies.
98.Its noted that the Provost and
Consortium are just in the business of
illusions and want nothing to do with
transhumanism or Zobrists scheme at
all.
99.Brown states, Transhumanism is an
intellectual movement, a philosophy of
sorts which states that humans
should use technology to transcend
weaknesses inherent in our human
bodies.
100.Philippine Catholic Church officials
have joined Metro Manila Development
Authority Chairman in castigating
Inferno author Dan Brown for
describing the country's capital city as
the gates of hell.

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101.The publication date May 14, 2013

(5/14/13) is a numerical anagram of
3.1415, the approximate value of pi.
Dante divided hell into circles and pi is
useful in measuring them.

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