# New Dan Brown Novel To Be Released

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 20, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dan-brown-novel-to-be-released/493786 "2009-04-20T22:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dan-brown-novel-to-be-released/493786/61 "2009-04-22T16:26:14Z")

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> [@Stephe96](#):
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> Publishers say Dan Brown’s next novel, _ **The Lost Symbol** _, will be released on September 15.
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> [The Most Important People in Media | Observer](http://www.observer.com/2009/media/doubleday-will-publish-new-dan-brown-sept-15-initial-print-run-5-million-copies)

How long until the Lost Symbol movie, action figures, game, DVD, computer game, puzzle, breakfast cereal, basball mitt and guidebook?

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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dan-brown-novel-to-be-released/493786/62 "2009-04-23T12:22:03Z")

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> [@Grumman](#):
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> He was, but I think that the reader _had_ been told about it in advance. _The hero_ thought it was just a fancy flak jacket when he took it, but IIRC the reader knew about the existence of these jetpacks, and could have recognised that it was a jetpack when it was first described.

Sounds like I’m getting my books mixed up and I’m really remembering a scene from _Temple_… but I don’t have copies of either of them anymore so I can’t check for sure.

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**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dan-brown-novel-to-be-released/493786/63 "2009-04-23T12:26:47Z")

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> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#):
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> I hated _The Da Vinci Code_ because on the first two pages, he says, “Thundering iron gate”, instead of “The iron gate thundered”, had someone freezing while turning his head, and had a character describe another character’s eye colour, _even though it was very dark_ and they were ten feet apart.
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It was better (or worse) than that! It was a distance of fifteen feet and the assassin is described as being a silhouette. Yet though he is a silhouette the character is able to discern his pale skin, his albino hair, his pink irises and his _red pupils_.

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