I mean, all the puzzles and solutions and everything are frickin' carved in granite-it's not like they are going anywhere. There are several threats about "running out of time" although there is absolutely no reason everything has to happen in this particular 10 hour period of time. For some reason, everything "has" to happen on this particular night. Because being creepy is the only way to get Langdon's attention, apparently.Īnd the race is on. He gets there, late and disheveled, only to find that there is no event! Statuary Hall is empty! But there is a kerfuffle in the Rotunda-a human hand on a spike, pointing upward. Robert Langdon, everybody's favorite symbologist (isn't the field actually called "hermeneutics?") is called to DC to serve as a last minute substitute speaker at some event being held in the Capitol building.
It's The Da Vinci Code set in Washington D.C. There is the enormous body count, caused by a sociopathic serial murderer who for some reason never quite gets around to killing the main characters, although the secondary and lower characters have about a 10% survival rate. There are the fake etymologies-Amen at the end of a prayer is supposed to derive from the name of the Egyptian god Amun-everything is connected to everything else! There is the beautiful woman companion with absolutely no sexual attraction whatsoever. There is the ominous secret society, this time the Freemasons. There are the lectures about the "real meaning" of architecture, secret societies, language. There is the bad guy who turns out not to be so bad. There is the physical freak with an inexplicable obsession-this one is a 'roid-fueled bald guy with a full body Nair addiction, who has tattooed every inch of his body, except for the very top of his head. The excessive use of italics for emphasis-when you can't make the point by repeating it, do it again in italics in its own paragraph. There are the ridiculously short chapters. What is there to say about this book other than it is exactly what you would expect from a Dan Brown Novel(TM).
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