Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown going To ABC

The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown Is Heading To ABC With Ron Howard image
As a nation, we used to be really into codes and messages hidden inside of American symbolism, which turned Dan Brown’s 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code into a mega-bestseller. But times have changed, and now we’re totally into the government treating our privacy like garbage. So it makes perfect sense that 20th Century Fox and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment are heading back in Brown’s library to turn his techno-thriller Digital Fortress into a TV series. Don’t tell the government I said that about them.

ABC has given Digital Fortress a put pilot, meaning the network has to show audiences a pilot, with a stiff penalty attached if they don’t. And given how well adaptations of Brown’s work have done on the big screen, it’s silly to think ABC will balk on this topical project. Unless someone stops them for saying too much.

Digital Fortress centers on the cat-and-mouse relationship between an NSA cryptographer named Susan Fletcher and a former NSA employee named Ensei Tankado, who is putting the government’s most consequential secrets up for auction. He has his own stiff penalties attached if he should be killed. There are double-crossers and twists throughout, and it deals with a lot of – you guessed it – questions of governmental superiority when it comes to information. 

read more at

 http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Da-Vinci-Code-Dan-Brown-Heading-ABC-With-Ron-Howard-67270.html

Read the BOOK REVIEW OF 'THE ALCHEMIST' BY PAULO COELHO

SUMMARY of ALCHEMIST

The main character or protagonist is Santiago, a shepherd boy.The name Santiago in  Spanish is for St. James. St. James is revered Catholic saint.

The central message of the novel is that is one must pursue their dreams. That’s perhaps the reason why Paulo Coelho’s novel starts with a dream.

Santiago dreams of finding a  treasure for which he will have to travel the world.The protagonist is brave enough to  pursue his quest to unearth the treasure.To make his dream come true he bids farewell to his home ,Spain and travels through the markets of Tangiers, and into the mighty Egyptian desert.On the way he gets deceived, falls in  love,experiences loses, also earns money, becomes fluent in a foreign language,befriends strangers, deals with both happy and grim circumstances. Santiago’s quest is adventurous and full of  lessons, where he is privileged enough to meet a  king and an alchemist.

Social Impact and My Views on ‘The Alchemist’

Alchemist highlights the core values of faith, belief, spirituality and love through emblematic accounts of a charming story of a common boy with phenomenal faith. It educates the audience in an ethereal and effective manner, the power of self-belief.

The book is originally authored in Portuguese. I am really fond of this novel by Paulo Coelho, mainly because it endorses positive thinking and self- belief. I think this what is important these days. I have never had the experience of visiting a desert but after reading ‘ The Alchemist’ , I could envision myself in the middle of a mystical desert and experience  the excitement and thrill associated with it. The  book  has succeeded in it goal to make the viewer completely acknowledge the fact that  having faith in your destiny can actually  result in  accomplishing your dreams.

Read Book Review of Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat

I think Revolution 2020 is a mediocre book by an eminent author like Chetan Bhagat.The book is about three friends Gopal ,Ragav and Aarthi having  different ambitions. The protagonist  Gopal aspires to become wealthy , while Ragav aspires to have an impact on world politics and Aarthi  wishes to be an air hostess.

Through this book, Chetan Bhagat has appropriately  exposed the prevailing  corruption in the Indian Education System.Frustrated with injustice going on in the Indian Education system , the protagonist Gopal sets up his own college GangaTech in Varanasi with the assistance of a politician.

While on the other hand, Ragav  becomes a  successful journalist and the owner of Revolution 2020, a newsletter. Through which he exposes the Ganga Treatment Scam and the politician helping Gopal comes under the scanner. Meanwhile, Aarthi develops love interest for both Gopal and Raghav and in the end gets married to Raghav.


The story of the novel looks like it is borrowed from a Hindi movie. Besides, it lacks the usual Chetan Bhagat humor angle. I think the novel is mediocre.