Sarah Palin vs. Dan Brown: Battle of Bestsellers Turns Ugly (VIDEO)

By now, everyone's heard that Sarah Palin's new book Going Rogue: An American Life has upended Dan Brown's multiweek supremacy atop the bestseller lists with his book The Lost Symbol. But the army of Brownies is not taking this lying down. There is already a campaign afoot on Twitter and elsewhere to dethrone former Gov. Palin from her bestseller perch, and one fellow author in particular is siding with Brown, who reportedly told him, "I didn't spend 7 years slaving over noetics and symbology just so some glacier-snipe could dictate to a ghost writer for three weeks and wallow in first place."

Washington pundit and author Martin Eisenstadt - on whose book I reported just a few days ago - went on to say:

As a good capitalist, I can certainly appreciate that Sarah Palin and Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins publishing house would want to sell all 1.5 million copies of Sarah's upcoming book Going Rogue. But when that effort knocks my friend Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol off the top of the charts for the first time in countless weeks, I must take umbrage and stand up for poor Dan....

So, I've issued a challenge to my friends, and to all fans of The Lost Symbol. If you want to deny that coveted #1 slot to former Gov. Palin, then all you need to do is buy another copy of The Lost Symbol. Of course, if you already own enough copies, then the second best option would be to pre-order a copy of my own upcoming Palin book, I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans. If you hadn't heard, my book is guaranteed to be twice as "rogue-y", half the price and comes out two weeks sooner than Palin's book. Just go to Amazon (or Barnes & Noble, which is experiencing the same phenomenon) and order mine and Dan's books there.

As many of you know, Dan is very humble and though a big fan of Washington (where I once gave him a personal tour of Masonic sites and certain "symbols" set into the building that houses my beloved Harding Institute), he might not acknowledge nor even overtly appreciate me stepping into the fray to help him regain his #1 status. That wouldn't surprise me at all. But he's my friend and fellow author, and I owe him this courtesy.

Eisenstadt put out this video challenge today (warning, NSFW if you or your boss are offended by a brief shot of what appears to be Dan Brown's naked buttocks):

Eisenstadt, a notorious neocon who rose to fame as the self-proclaimed disgruntled former McCain adviser who took credit as the source of the leak that Palin thought Africa was a country, hedged his bets slightly when he added this caveat:

And finally, I know a lot of my fellow neoconservatives will still be interested in Sarah Palin's book, so if you do buy a copy (as indeed I have myself), then I simply suggest that for you own sake, you save on shipping and buy a copy of my book as well.

[Full disclosure: There are those who would argue that I am actually one of the co-creators of "Martin Eisenstadt" and co-author of his upcoming book. Eisenstadt, though, has always disputed this point.]

 

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Comments

[sippewissett]

Love this quote from Brown: "I didn't spend 7 years slaving over noetics and symbology just so some glacier-snipe could dictate to a ghost writer for three weeks and wallow in first place."

Given that Dan Brown is no stylist of note(but at least writes his own novels), this is all the funnier: a second-rate writer whe has already hit the $$$ bonanza not ceding to a novice. Both of them prove you don't have to be smart to make big bucks in America.

[jdrourke]

Loved the post! At least Brown actually wrote his book. Speaking of which, shouldn't he lend his services to the writers of Lost? Something tells me he could help tie up the ends...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/

[JimmyTee]

You're criticizing a politician for hiring a ghostwriter? What a babe in the woods you are.

Also, you guys do know that everything in this article is fake, right?

[sippewissett]

Yes, lots of busy people work with ghost writers, but typically they are lucid when they write and speak on their own. However, Lynn Vincent is more than Palin's "ghost writer." She is now the self-described "co-author" with Palin (see Wiki).

What this means in simple terms is that Vincent had to take Palin's notes and recorded word-salads and turn both sources into a coherent whole. In short, Palin will claim they are her words, but the order in which they are presented are Vincent's. There's no way that Vincent could use Palin's thoughts as expressed to date.

[hischagal]

My suggestion is to buy Palin's new book and burn it as soon as you get home.

[SimonSezz]

Winter is comming

[Pantelleria01]

Dan brown? With the dead popes and the daughter of Jesus? vs Sarah Palin? sounds about right to me. Both of them tell fairy tells and not very well. Palin is popular with one segment of lost people, Dan Brown sweeps up the trash with yet another, all book buyers apparently. How swell is that? Why either of these two human beings are worth so much space is a mystery to me. This last film about the plot to kill cardinals or popes or whatever was such a pointless piece of trash, to me Palin's book, the perfect companion to Brown's. I never read books that are at the top of the NY Times list. Why?

[BlueZoo]

No contest! I read 'The Lost Symbol' and it's got to be the book of the year! It was a rapid-fire page turner of epic proportions and I can't wait for the film! btw: Palin's book doesn't come out until 11/15. Just because bookstores have ordered all those copies doesn't mean they will sell them, unless the GOP buys them up! That twit doesn't have one thing to say that I would be interested in hearing!