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A lot of nook users have been frustrated with being unable to find the low priced ebooks. It turns out, Barnes & Noble have buried the low cost ebooks in a way that makes them difficult to find. Enter “Nook Lovers!” They’ve garnished the best, most affordable nook books with the links to get them on Barnes & Noble all on one site. Read more…
HILARIOUS POST:
Cleaning my files today, I stumbled across an e-mail correspondence I had with master storyteller Dan Brown before he wrote The Da Vinci Code. He had published Digital Fortress and on his website mentioned how part of his inspiration came from reading an article about a priest. (Possibly an urban legend.)
It’s official! The Torah Codes is a best-seller in the UK. In the Torah category, The Torah Codes placed #85. A stampeding herd of buyers pounded at Amazon’s doors to get their own copy. No penguins were harmed in the stampede.
The Torah Codes won Honorable Mention at the 2011 Hollywood Book Festival. In fact, not only did The Torah Codes win, but my wife’s Young Adult Fantasy book Henrietta: The Dragon Slayer also won Honorable Mention!
I just finished watching the very first X-Men film on TV with my bride Beth Barany. I had seen it before, have you? If so, remember near the beginning when they show Jewish families being led to the concentration camps? Apparently, there will be a lot more mention of the connection between losing one’s family and getting revenge as a man with super powers. (I am purposely being coy to avoid spoiling it for those who don’t know the story.)
Alas! My blog has been getting cobwebs and bunny droppings. (Out here in California, you know the neglect of a place is bad when it’s infested by bunnies.) And there’s no excuse for the neglect, either! Actually, my book has been kicking major butt, lately. I have so much good news to share that I don’t know where to begin!
Heather Smith, our cover designer, did an excellent job at completing the cover for The Torah Codes. Throughout the process, she was easy to communicate with and I always felt like she was on our side to get the cover looking the best way possible.
If ever you need a cover designer and have just the concept planned out, I recommend Heather to fullly actualize your conceptualization. (Wow! Them’s some pretty big words!)
I’m on my way to jury duty. I’ve never been picked before. Either I’ve been excused before the jury picking, or I was found unsuitable to be properly coerced by the lawyers so they’d say, “We’d like to thank and excuse Mr. Barany.”
A lady I spoke with on the way to the courthouse said she’s never been picked because she doesn’t believe in the system. There’s a story in there somewhere. Maybe her son was wrongly accused and convicted. Maybe the blatant evidence supporting her or her family member’s case was not as convincing as the wry wit and ridicule of the opponent’s attorney, making the jury ready to side with anything and everything that clever attorney said.
Here’s a great primer on the Bible codes.
WARNING: Bible codes cannot be used to predict the future. Codes predicting assassinations, for example, are too statistically insignificant to be considered as being intentionally placed. Unless an experiment has been done involving an a priori hypothesis and replication with significant results (and there have been a few that were successful), codes found in the Bible are generally thought-provoking curiosities. The successful experiments are what prove the Bible codes’ existence.
What are the Bible codes? I’m glad you asked. If you read every other letter of the Bible starting with the book of Genesis to Deuteronomy, you get Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code spelled out. Well, maybe not, but the idea is similar.
There are, in fact, many different kinds of codes in the Bible. One type is called “Atbash” where the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is replaced with the last letter, and the second letter of the alphabet is replaced with the second to last letter, and so on. This was seen prominently in Jeremiah where it mentions the city of Sheshach. There is no historical record of any city named Sheshach. There are, however, historical records of a place called Babylon, and if you apply the Atbash code to Sheshach, you get Babel, the Hebrew word for Babylon. Perhaps the author of Jeremiah was afraid of being persecuted by naming the actual city.
