Monday, September 14, 2009
Richard Langdon
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The blockbuster never dies. Richard Langdon is back. Janet Maslin has once again annointed Dan Brown a master of un-put-down-able fiction in her review of The Lost Symbol, much as she did when she nearly fell all over herself in delight over The DaVinci Code, calling it "riddle-filled, code-breaking, exhilaratingly brainy thriller."  I enjoyed "Angels and Demon" more, I have to say, and thought it was much better written - more subplotlines were finished and the characters were better developed.  The one that was specifically about coding was way too easy to solve, disappointingly, and made me think that either the NSA should put me on their payroll or Dan Brown isn't as fierce a code writer as he and others think.  Rumor has it that there are some nifty codes in The Lost Symbol so of course I will have to accept the challenge.  I'll let you know....

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