The big day has come and gone. What day you ask? Publication day for Dan Brown's long awaited thriller The Lost Symbol, a follow-up to the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.
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These three novels have a number of similarities-- an intrepid and intelligent hero meets up with an alluring heroine in a major city; the pair then deal with a conspiracy involving secret codes and gruesome villains. Also, the author uses an over-the-top writing style to unravel the plots at break-neck speed.
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Though Janet Maslin gave The Lost Symbol a good review in the New York Times, Brown's style has drawn some satiric comment, such as an article in the British newspaper the Telegraph about Dan Brown's worst sentences. My favorite among these sites though is the Dan Brown Plot Generator, which allows one to choose a city and an organization, press enter, and bingo-bango a plot appears.
I'm not sure Dan Brown is worrying too much about these sites, however, as The Lost Symbol sold a million copies the day it came out.
Very funny-good to know that even the USPS has a secret organization. Doesn't everyone. What I want to know is, where is our?
ReplyDeleteI’m surprised that you haven’t at least heard rumors of the organization called the bibliotista. They’re headquartered at NLS in Uniondale in a basement four levels below ground, where they store a cache of very singular tomes that contain esoteric secrets known only to the group’s initiates. I’ve heard hints that the secrets involve METADATA and other such obscure codes. To make sure no one has time to look into their existence the biblotista insert glitches into the NLS catalog that take hours, sometimes days to solve. This is a very sinister group.
ReplyDeleteMaureen, aha, I was right. I suspected that someone who reads as much as you might be a member of the bibliotista. Can you use your influence to have other initiates in this nefarious group read this blog and leave comments?
ReplyDeleteWorkin' on it!
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