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http://www.thelostsymbol.com/

Dan Brown's (Digital Fortress, Deception Point) eagerly anticipated new novel, The Lost Symbol, is the third to feature Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000's Angels & Demons and 2003's The Da Vinci Code. The best-selling author is an international phenomenon with over 81 million copies currently in print and is published in 51 languages around the globe. If Hollywood sources are to be believed, The Lost Symbol is all set to be turned into a blockbuster movie, just like Ron Howard's (A Beautiful Mind) adaptations of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons starring Tom Hanks (Forest Gump) as the intrepid hero Robert Langdon. Keep your eye out for a possible 2012 release date!

Although little is known at present, The Lost Symbol's story takes place over a 12-hour period, and from the first page, Dan's readers will no doubt feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape into the mysterious world of freemasonry in Washington, D.C.

What you should expect is a brilliant compelling page-turner of a thriller, the likes of which only Dan Brown could write. The Lost Symbol will undoubtedly highlight Brown's prodigious talent for storytelling, infused with history, codes and intrigue more than ever before. We'll tell you more as and when we can!


Who here is going to get it? I have it on pre-order. The release coincides with the DVD release of Angels & Demons.

However I'm fully expecting The Lost Symbol to suck majorly. Why? Because Angels was the pinnacle of Dan Brown's work, and he just simply cannot reuse the same formula again (Which I feel he will), it would be a joke. Riding on the success of Da Vinci, I can't see this being much different. Plus there is (more than likely) no way he could ever create a story as epic as Angels was.

Thoughts?

Entertaining rubbish is what it'll be

Thousands of people will contribute to the decline of literature on that date.

They let this guy write another book?

Why put the two books nobody's read in the "famous from" brackets in the opening sentence?

Donk wrote:Thousands of people will contribute to the decline of literature on that date.

I didn't realise that from one sentence I could so confidently form an opinion of someone being a total haughty wanker.

Donk wrote:Thousands of people will contribute to the decline of literature on that date.

Hardly. It's just pulp, isn't it? Engaging stories told in an entertaining way to appeal to the mass-market. The equivalent of a summer blockbuster: harmless and enjoyable, yet sneered at by those with their heads up their arses.

For what it's worth, Shakespeare was seen at the time as being too lowbrow, bawdy and populist to be truly considered great. His contemporaries such as Marlowe and Jonson were more widely admir'd because they had Uni educations (at least, I think Ben Jonson did).

That said, I'll probably wait for the paperback...

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:Thousands of people will contribute to the decline of literature on that date.

I didn't realise that from one sentence I could so confidently form an opinion of someone being a total haughty ******.

Chapter 1)

What, because someone doesn't like their books to....

Chapter 2)

...have Chapters this short?

Chapter 3)

Not to mention the rather lame "OMG RELIGION SUCKS LOL" and the utter inability to understand technology by the author?

poser wrote:

Donk wrote:Thousands of people will contribute to the decline of literature on that date.

Hardly. It's just pulp, isn't it? Engaging stories told in an entertaining way to appeal to the mass-market. The equivalent of a summer blockbuster: harmless and enjoyable, yet sneered at by those with their heads up their arses.

For what it's worth, Shakespeare was seen at the time as being too lowbrow, bawdy and populist to be truly considered great. His contemporaries such as Marlowe and Jonson were more widely admir'd because they had Uni educations (at least, I think Ben Jonson did).

That said, I'll probably wait for the paperback...

Shakespeare is actually good though.

Donk wrote:
Shakespeare is actually good though.

Great. Thanks.

Why not flick through my post history and misunderstand some more of what I've written on here?

Shakespeare is no Dickens.

I didn't misunderstand at all. Just pointing out the utter flaw in your argument. Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time, so Dan Browne's travesties are going to be seen as glorious masterpieces in a few hundred years time.

Or, not.

Kanbei wrote:Rubbish is what it'll be

Fixed.

Reading the Da Vinci Code was about as entertaining as chemotherapy.

Donk wrote:Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time,

I can't believe you would make this kind of error; you're contributing to the decline of GRcade.

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time,

I can't believe you would make this kind of error; you're contributing to the decline of GRcade.

Oh boo hoo a SPG mistake on an internet forum.

At least I don't read Dan Brown.

Donk wrote:I didn't misunderstand at all. Just pointing out the utter flaw in your argument. Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time, so Dan Browne's travesties are going to be seen as glorious masterpieces in a few hundred years time.

Or, not.

And you know that for a fact, do you? Underestimate the mass market and the popular vote at your peril.

I was only pointing out the utter flaw in your argument: that people who read populist fiction are contributing to the decline of literature.

Come back when you have a basic grasp of apostrophe use - two wrong in that post alone, Literature Boy.

Donk wrote:

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time,

I can't believe you would make this kind of error; you're contributing to the decline of GRcade.

Oh boo hoo a SPG mistake on an internet forum.

At least I don't read Dan Brown.

At least I'm not a pretentious twat.

Donk wrote:

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time,

I can't believe you would make this kind of error; you're contributing to the decline of GRcade.

Oh boo hoo a SPG mistake on an internet forum.

At least I don't read Dan Brown.

OK, I need to type faster...

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:

Mind Crime wrote:

Donk wrote:Shakespeare was seen as trash in it's time,

I can't believe you would make this kind of error; you're contributing to the decline of GRcade.

Oh boo hoo a SPG mistake on an internet forum.

At least I don't read Dan Brown.

At least I'm not a pretentious twat.

If being a pretentious twat means I'm not the sort of sewer dwelling eejit who watches Big Brother, thinks the Halo series are the best games ever, and reads Dan Brown, then I'm totally in.

From reading his other books, the problem he has is they all use exactly the same formula