33 claves para desifrar el simbolo perdido / 33 Keys to Unlocking the Lost Symbol: Una guia de lectura para complementar la novela de Dan Brown / A Reader's Companion to the Dan Brown Novel

This book is designed to appeal to fans of Dan Browns Robert Langdon novels, particularly The Lost Symbol (2009). Beyer explores some of the books codes, puzzles, and historical references. Although he does raise some interesting questionsHow does The Lost Symbols original title, The Solomon Key, help us to understand the meaning and importance of one of the books characters?he also spends a lot of time on matters peripheral to his theme. Why, for example, in a book that is presumably being read by someone who is intimately familiar with Browns novels and their hero, Robert Langdon, would the author devote nearly 2 full pages to a physical description of the character and an explanation of what he does for a living? Similarly, the authors lengthy travelogue-like description of The Lost Symbols setting, Washington, D.C., could be replaced by a simple list of elements from the Brown novel that actually exist in Washington, freeing up 30-odd pages for meatier pursuits. Recommended for readers who cant get enough of Brown and Langdon, but for a betterand much more entertainingexploration of Browns techniques, try The Va Dinci Cod (2005), the hilarious Da Vinci Code parody written by A. R. R. R. Roberts (otherwise known as Adam Roberts). --David Pitt