I liked them. I have only read two, but I think they lifted the game for a lot of people and got them to pondering the whys and wherefore's of myth and history, which to my mind is a lot more productive than the continual diet of sex & violence which modern 'entertainment' offers us.
I thought the Knight/Lomas books did well in that area also (Hiram Key, etc).
Didn't mean that they got it right (I am in no position to judge) but they were entertaining and sent me off to the various texts trying to check stuff out. It was lots of fun.
The theme of Dan Brown's books seems to be that over zealousness in a (belief) system should be avoided. Lives will be lost.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
Post by Circleoflight on Aug 18, 2011 14:25:50 GMT 9.5
I agree that the topics are much better than most light reading out there. A lot of people were taken aback by the topic, which I agree is a good thing since it gets the general public interested. The killing for faith theme is fantastic anytime. I haven't read the Lost Symbol. I wonder how it portrays us.
