Dan Brown has finally written the long-awaited follow-up to his outrageously ridiculous smash hit book, The Da Vinci Code. Yes, according to The Associated Press, The Lost Symbol was released yesterday and has already sold over one million copies. This is huge for any book that is not Harry Potter (the seventh and final installment, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows sold 8 million copies in its first day).
The Lost Symbol is already on its way to being the talk of...everywhere. Adults who don't read otherwise will talk about The Lost Symbol for the next several months.
"I can't believe how fast I read it," a person will say.
"Oh, me too. I just love reading," another will add.
And, for both adults, The Lost Symbol will be the only book either read in 2009. But that's not to say others won't read it. If it's like his last two books, both turned into movies, it'll be written like a film. The story will be solid (and rushed, as it takes place over only 12 hours), but some of the writing will sound like Quentin Tarantino explaining one of his movies on a bender. Here's what I bet it sounds like:
Then there was a gunshot.
"Blam!" went a gun from behind her. She kept running.
And then, out of nowhere, came the second man. He had been standing in the shadows. Nobody saw him. Nobody except the third man, who was behind the painting!
He stabbed the other guy. The girl kept running through the hallway, looking for an escape.
And then each chapter will end with someone saying either "I think I know where to go next" or "What does it all mean?"
Dan Brown: the closest thing adults have to the old Goosebumps series.
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