{"id":489,"date":"2009-12-19T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2013-11-18T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:06:28","slug":"dan-brown-novels-are-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/dan-brown-novels-are-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Brown Novels Are Wonderful&#8230;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a>You know what&#8217;s interesting?  I found reading <strong>The Da Vinci Code <\/strong>and <strong>Angels And Demons<\/strong> excruciating experiences.  Yet as I cracked open <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong> and turned to the prologue, I still felt a tingle of excitement.  I mean, he&#8217;s had four books to work through all the empty plot holes, tired cliches, and lazy characters.  This one has to be better, right?<\/p>\n<p>My first laugh out loud moment.  On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danbrown.com\/#\/theLostSymbol\/reviews\">Dan Brown<\/a> website, it quotes a review from the L.A. Times, &#8220;The wait is over. The Lost Symbol is here&#8211;and you don&#8217;t have to be a Freemason to enjoy it&#8230;THRILLING AND ENTERTAINING, LIKE THE EXPERIENCE ON A ROLLER COASTER.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actual quote, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-lost-symbol14-2009sep14,0,5481048.story\">L.A. Times<\/a> website: &#8220;The Lost Symbol&#8221; is more like the experience on any roller coaster &#8212; thrilling, entertaining and then it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<h5>Pages Read: 5  <br \/>Pages To Go: 504<\/h5>\n<p>*&#8230;Examples Of Terrible Literature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what&#8217;s interesting? I found reading The Da Vinci Code and Angels And Demons excruciating experiences. Yet as I cracked open The Lost Symbol and turned to the prologue, I still felt a tingle of excitement. I mean, he&#8217;s had four books to work through all the empty plot holes, tired cliches, and lazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[549,423,425,550,421],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-angels-and-demons","tag-dan-brown","tag-the-da-vinci-code","tag-the-la-times","tag-the-lost-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}