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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 @ 11:47PM
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 @ 9:10PM
NAILED EM!
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BOOK REVIEW: Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 11:55PM
So much symbolism.
Oh my God. I am so good at symbols so when I read Dan Brown’s latest romp I knew that every time he said something such as “well-dressed African American Man” (which he did a lot) he meant Morgan Freeman. The English language needs more synonyms for this…I can’t think of any right now without watching Glen Beck. I hope those casting for the film will pick up on that. Dan really threw you a bone there. Oh and I am going to ruin the book now but the lost symbol of “The Lost Symbol” is the bible. Really? Seems pretty un-lost to me since the invention of the printing press and Barnes and Noble. What about a fork? Or a wooden club Washington used in Jefferson’s mouth to shut him up. Now that’s pure symbol. Oh and the foreshadowing at the beginning where Langdon is smitten over the Washington Monument - like the story won’t come full circle and wind up back there. Then there’s that tattooed guy who seems lifted from the dragon book the “Silence of the Lambs” guy wrote. Why do people think tattoos will transform them? I once had a temporary tattoo of a burrito that made me feel Italian. See that? I flipped it on ya. Anyway this book was so good it has become my lost symbol because I realized with the paper it was made with I could wipe my ass for at least a week. Unfortunately it turns out it only took one sitting because of how great this book was (I swear one of my turds looked just like Dan Brown - there is another lost symbol because I flushed…wait, isn’t that brown too? Hot damn! Another symbol lost). Oh buy this book so not only can we get more great literature like this but more great cinema as well. I have to run now, my torrent of the latest Grisham just finished…
(this has been edited for content heavily from my original review, written for but rejected by “The New Yorker).
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