The Lost Symbol

[Sizzle]

I will probably be mocked here for admitting that I enjoyed both the DaVinci Code and Angel's & Demons, but I did. I will also probably be mocked for admitting that I am looking forward to reading "The Lost Symbol", which I was just notified by email comes out on September 15.

Anybody else looking forward to reading part three in the Robert Langdon series?

[cowboy]

I will probably be mocked here for admitting that I enjoyed both the DaVinci Code and Angel's & Demons, but I did. I will also probably be mocked for admitting that I am looking forward to reading "The Lost Symbol", which I was just notified by email comes out on September 15.

Anybody else looking forward to reading part three in the Robert Langdon series?

I'm with you, Siz. I'm simple and shallow and I admit it. I watch movies and read books to be entertained. I'll read an occasional book to learn something, but mostly it's about escape for me. Brown is entertaining, and I'm looking forward to the release.

[Mormon Red Death]

I will probably be mocked here for admitting that I enjoyed both the DaVinci Code and Angel's & Demons, but I did. I will also probably be mocked for admitting that I am looking forward to reading "The Lost Symbol", which I was just notified by email comes out on September 15.

Anybody else looking forward to reading part three in the Robert Langdon series?

I liked Angels and Demons except for the end where it was to quote the wedding singer:

All just bullllshiiiiit....

[wuapinmon]

I like these in the same way that I like the National Treasure films....they are escapist treats that try and invent some kind of back story from familiar things.....sort of like how kid's media is always trying to have everyone create some cool club, or web show, or sports team. Only this is about global conspiracies of bedrock institutions and how a few people can put it all together.

It's like porn for your brain, or Indiana Jones.

[TripletDaddy]

I read Da Vinci code on an airplane flight back from the East Coast and really had fun doing so. I had no idea who Dan Brown was and the book was relatively new.

Because I enjoyed it so much, I went to his other stuff. I read Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, and I think there was one other?

It was only after I read the others that I started to dislike all of them. They were all exactly the same. The same formula, the same short chapter layout, etc. It became clear that Dan Brown was cranking out short stories on a conveyor belt and so I lost interest.

Also, if I had to pinpoint the one moment where I started to turn away, it was in Angels in Demons where someone (was it Langdon? not sure....has been years since I read it) was falling from the sky and saved himself by opening his coat for drag resistance.

The Tom Hanks mullet did not help matter much when the movie was released. I am sure Angels and Demons will do boffo box office when it is released. The premise is fun and it is an easy read....that usually equals success.

[CardiacCoug]

I will probably be mocked here for admitting that I enjoyed both the DaVinci Code and Angel's & Demons, but I did. I will also probably be mocked for admitting that I am looking forward to reading "The Lost Symbol", which I was just notified by email comes out on September 15.

Anybody else looking forward to reading part three in the Robert Langdon series?

Is this the book that is supposed to deal with Masons and Mormons to some degree?

I liked the DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, too. It's not great literature, but it's definitely entertaining stuff.

[pellegrino]

Also, if I had to pinpoint the one moment where I started to turn away, it was in Angels in Demons where someone (was it Langdon? not sure....has been years since I read it) was falling from the sky and saved himself by opening his coat for drag resistance.

That's exactly what did it for me. That said, I'll probably end up reading the newest book, but only out of curiosity. I want to know what his take on Mormons and Masonry is.

[FN Phat]

Add me to the list of easily entertained. I will pick it up and read it. I will also be going to the A&D movie.

[bluegoose]

I've enjoyed Dan Browns books for the most part. Its good cheap entertainment. He does seem to have a lot of problems as a closer. All three of his books that I have read (DaVinci, Angels and Fortress) have had really, really weak endings.

[BlueHair]

I'm not really a reader, but I loved Angels and Demons. I read it in a day which is quite an accomplishment for me. I read DaVinci Code a few days later and didn't like it quite as much.

[Donuthole]

Also, if I had to pinpoint the one moment where I started to turn away, it was in Angels in Demons where someone (was it Langdon? not sure....has been years since I read it) was falling from the sky and saved himself by opening his coat for drag resistance.

It was everything I could do not to put the book down and stop reading right then and there. IIRC, the helicopter is 2-3 miles above earth when Langdon jumps, and he uses a tarp to parachute his way safely into a river. How hard would it have been to include an emergency parachute in the helicopter?

[BlueHair]

It was everything I could do not to put the book down and stop reading right then and there. IIRC, the helicopter is 2-3 miles above earth when Langdon jumps, and he uses a tarp to parachute his way safely into a river. How hard would it have been to include an emergency parachute in the helicopter?

You must really hate Bond movies!

[Mormon Red Death]

It was everything I could do not to put the book down and stop reading right then and there. IIRC, the helicopter is 2-3 miles above earth when Langdon jumps, and he uses a tarp to parachute his way safely into a river. How hard would it have been to include an emergency parachute in the helicopter?

yeah but if he used a parachute he couldnt have fallen into the magical river which heals him quickly...

riiiiigggghhhht