Tweeting “The Lost Symbol”

Well, I just finished it. In leiu of the short review (coming soon) here are my tweets on the subject. You’ll need to read from the bottom up to make sense of it, and it won’t make much sense.

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Finished.
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And now we’re getting into pro-Christian territory.
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I was right about Mal’akh’s identity.
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The crisis of National Security is finding out what the Freemasons do, in re their initiations. Really?
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Langdon really is just a character rather than THE character in this book.
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Robert Langdon just drowned. Possibly to death.
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Evil priest? Well, is there any other kind?
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Could it be that the villain (or the patsy) is the son of one of the other characters?
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The Rosicrucians have just made an appearance. This is the worst rewrite of “Foucault’s Pendulum” ever.
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Darth Vader is in the story as well. Luke’s dark father.
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Hmm… Satanism.
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Now the Great Beast has been cited.
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They’re are about to go to Leigh Teabing’s place.Well, this book’s equivalent. Hope he’s got PowerPoint.
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This book’s artist par excellence is Albrecht Durer.
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The villain character is as clichéd as that Hashisheen and the Albino.
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The CIA have an X-ray device thst can detect tiny text on a 2″ gold pyramid, apparently.
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Off home to eat and continue reading this tripe. It’s proving to be a harder read than expected; I’m just not into it.
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Dan Brown’s descriptions know no beginning; inky black voids, nondescript basements. I can believe these to be accurate ala the preface.
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@monkeyfluids His name is Joachim. He comes from the briny depths to offer the secret of stonemasonry. I think.
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“Masons in the Basement.” The sequel to “Aliens in the Attack?”
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A giant squid has just turned up. No, I’m not kidding. No, it isn’t all that exciting an event, either.
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Now, the subbasement. It really needs to get gripping soon.
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After 90 pages in a Rotunda Langdon has decided to go visit a featureless basement.
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@darmeus I keep being interrupted. And Robert Langdon has just spent 90 pages in one place.
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The scientist has access to OCR software that translates from obscure and dead languages. She backs up to holographic storage. Masons, eh?
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The Bond villain has just arrived.
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@darmeus I wish I had popcorn.
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Lunch break, just as the scientist enters the Noetics lab.
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Took a break for a haircut. Back at it; someone has lost an arm.
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The villain is non-Christian; we’re meant to think he is Muslim. He won’t be, ala “Angels and Demons.”
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Langdon is apparently Christian. This must be an apology, through the character, for ‘The Da Vinci Code.’
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Langdon seems to teach an awful lot of spurious courses at Harvard. Does his Faculty know? I’m sure the Dean would not approve.
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The reference in chapter 1 to ties will foreshadow an attempt on Langdon’s life later in the book.
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Moko are mentioned.
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It is mine. Off to the office to work on it.
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I went to find Dan Brown. I found a new Iain Banks.
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It depresses me that the first novel I will read this year is a) in October and b) “The Lost Symbol.”
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