I just finished Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol. It was just as impressive as The DaVinci Code, and revealed countless truths about which I had no idea. This was disconcerting as his new novel is set in D.C. and has a great deal of historical research behind it. I was on the internet looking up everything he claimed, and it was all real! i.e. A giant statue of Washington depicted as Zeus which used to be in the Capitol, or the painting in the dome of the Capitol rotunda titled The Apotheosis of Washington (which shows Washington ascending to heaven a-la Christ), apotheosis literally
means deification, and the existence of breathable perflourocarbons (I won't say what that means in case you read the book, but it is amazing technology!)Brown's dialogue can seem a bit stiff a times, but the content is well worth the momentary awkwardness! So much research must go into these books. It is amazing what you learn from his fiction.
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