{"id":539,"date":"2009-12-19T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T05:17:14","slug":"waiting-for-something-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/waiting-for-something-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For Something To Happen"},"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>I&#8217;m 34 chapters in, and nothing much has happened.  <strong>The Da Vinci Code<\/strong> started out much more exhilaratingly, with Langdon immediately being faced with the puzzle in the Louvre.  As I recall, in <strong>Angels And Demons<\/strong>, we knew pretty early on that he needed to hurry, or the Vatican would be destroyed by a bomb.  <\/p>\n<p>But here we are almost 150 pages in, and there has been one, very simple puzzle, lots of random information about Washington D.C. iconography, a blatant attempt to make Director Ito seem a part of the conspiracy, and very little else.  The tension all rests upon the fact that Robert Langdon has the secret package in his bag, and that Katherine doesn&#8217;t realize the doctor is an imposter, and planning to murder her.  <\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, the book is not as spectacularly bad as I was hoping for.  It&#8217;s just dull.  And I have four hundred pages to go.  Curses!<\/p>\n<h5>Pages read: 144 <br \/>\nPages To Go: 365<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 34 chapters in, and nothing much has happened. The Da Vinci Code started out much more exhilaratingly, with Langdon immediately being faced with the puzzle in the Louvre. As I recall, in Angels And Demons, we knew pretty early on that he needed to hurry, or the Vatican would be destroyed by a bomb. [&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":[549,423,572,526,425,421,581,197],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-angels-and-demons","tag-dan-brown","tag-director-ito","tag-robert-langdon","tag-the-da-vinci-code","tag-the-lost-symbol","tag-the-vatican","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/2746"}],"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=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}