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Critics label Dan Brown’s "Inferno" a clunky page-turner

LONDON (Reuters) – Early reviews of Dan Brown's fast-paced fourth book in “The Da Vinci Code” series labeled it a “clunky” page-turner that will nevertheless delight his fans. Critics said the dark mysteries, mind-bending codes and history-laced tourism in “Inferno” will thrill Brown devotees, but panned the U.S. author for passages they said were more suited to a Hollywood film script than a novel. …

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Michael C. Hall adapting talent-agent book for showtime

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The final season of “Dexter” hasn’t premiered yet, but series star Michael C. Hall is already slicing into his next project for the cable network. Hall is working with Showtime on an adaptation of the Matthew Specktor novel “American Dream Machine,” about a talent agent and his sons. The novel follows Beau Rosenwald, who arrived in Hollywood broke but by the late ’70s has helped to build the most successful agency in Hollywood. The book chronicles Rosenwald as he rises, falls, and rises again – and goes to war with his partner. …

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Michael C. Hall adapting talent-agent book for showtime