THE LOST SYMBOL is C 2009 DAN BROWN REVIEW BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA C 2009
So many reviews have already been made of this book, dare I add to the chaos?
Having seen ANGELS and DEMONS on the big screen, for my entire read I kept seeing the actor TOM HANKS in my mind's eye when I encountered the character Langdon.
Is it possible to read a Dan Brown book and not be completely fascinated by cutting edge technology and science clashing and meshing with ancient occult wisdom and spiritual controversy? It's his forte and the long wait for this book was worth it.
Would it be going too far to suggest that this book may be the ANTIDOTE for 9/11 because ultimately it is patriotic? Will the Masons have a resurgence of interest in their organization? If so, what about the Anti-Catholicism of the Masons?
What does it mean when you take notes because you want to look up Noetic Science? Like the aftermath of his other books, I fully expect that Dan Brown has created interest enough in his research for the book for others to go after him for accuracy.
For some reason I felt the story was a bit slow until it got really good. Life intruded and I had to put it down many times but about three forths of the way through I didn't want to.
10/20/09
EXCERPT from IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers
page 171
"Peter had always been the one to discover, throw himself into, and turn his friends on to the coolest, most interesting music scenes. In the two years since Animal House had prompted a mass migration of unruly New York comics to LA, a new scene had begun to bubble up for the LA music underground. The early stages of punk rock, which in the early to mid - '70's had stormed New York and London, had in large part passed Hollywood by. While bands like the Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and X sparked varying degrees of cult devotion in Southern CA, the sound as a whole, and the attitude and aesthetic that came with it, did not really begin to catch on until the later '70's , when the tectonic rumblings of two of punk's most potent second-wave manifestations began to crack the town's placid facade..."
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers
page 171
"Peter had always been the one to discover, throw himself into, and turn his friends on to the coolest, most interesting music scenes. In the two years since Animal House had prompted a mass migration of unruly New York comics to LA, a new scene had begun to bubble up for the LA music underground. The early stages of punk rock, which in the early to mid - '70's had stormed New York and London, had in large part passed Hollywood by. While bands like the Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and X sparked varying degrees of cult devotion in Southern CA, the sound as a whole, and the attitude and aesthetic that came with it, did not really begin to catch on until the later '70's , when the tectonic rumblings of two of punk's most potent second-wave manifestations began to crack the town's placid facade..."
10/15/09
ROLLO MAY Quote
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity." - Rollo May
10/8/09
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY TRUST SITE
Marion Zimmer Bradley, the author of fiction based on the Arthurian legends from a woman's point of view, has a site helpful to writers that includes advice to writers about taxes and so much more. While more books by Bradley emerge from publishers, I recall reading THE MISTS OF AVALON many years ago and being intrigued by the notion of the land of fairy, which is a place one can slip into without realizing it, and years pass by. Whenever her character actually thinks it is time to go, she is incited to join another party, and when finally she does, going back the way she came, she discovers the bones of the horse she rode in on. Many years have gone by, but she gets back on her path... only to discover that people have aged and things have changed...
It happens to all of us. One day I was in West Hollywood and looked into the windows of a restaurant I used to go to a lot, and there were the same group of men playing chess that had been sitting there seven years before.
It happens to all of us. One day I was in West Hollywood and looked into the windows of a restaurant I used to go to a lot, and there were the same group of men playing chess that had been sitting there seven years before.
10/7/09
Re MARIANNE MOORE - POET - WESTWAYS MAGAZINE JUNE 2009
In the June 2009 edition of Westways Magazine (the AAA Auto Club publication) there is this...
"In 1955, Ford Motor Company hired the poet Marianne Moore to suggest names for anew car still on the drawing board. The car maker had big plans for the vehicle, and it asked Moore for words that would convey speed, sophistication, and state-of-the-art design to prospective buyers. Proving perhaps that poets think years ahead of their time, Moore came up with the names Civique and Diamante, among others..."
"In 1955, Ford Motor Company hired the poet Marianne Moore to suggest names for anew car still on the drawing board. The car maker had big plans for the vehicle, and it asked Moore for words that would convey speed, sophistication, and state-of-the-art design to prospective buyers. Proving perhaps that poets think years ahead of their time, Moore came up with the names Civique and Diamante, among others..."
10/5/09
HELEN GURLEY BROWN Quote
"Living dangerously lengthens and strengthens your life." -Helen Gurley Brown
10/3/09
10/2/09
ON DOMINICK DUNNE by GRAYDEN CARTER
One of my favorite writers, Dominick Dunne, died in New York City, age 83, after 30 years of writing books and magazine articles, mining society for stories, and focusing on criminal justice and crimes of the century. Although I never read his creative fiction, what I liked about Dunne's writing is the simple clarity of it. It was as if he had taken the advice of the classic book WRITING WELL. His turn of the phrase was never dependent on fanciness.
This is what Grayden Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, had to say about him in the November 2009 Editors Letter:
"Dominick died in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan on August 26, at the age of 83, just having completed his last novel, Too Much Money, which will be published in December. A failed, divorced, alcoholic Hollywood producer at 50, he famously recaptured his life and produced an astonishing body of work in the years left to him. Through his hundreds of articles and diary entries for Vanity Fair, his six novels, and his presence at countless dinner parties and social events in this country and abroad, he became one of the most loved and recognizable writers in the world..."
This is what Grayden Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, had to say about him in the November 2009 Editors Letter:
"Dominick died in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan on August 26, at the age of 83, just having completed his last novel, Too Much Money, which will be published in December. A failed, divorced, alcoholic Hollywood producer at 50, he famously recaptured his life and produced an astonishing body of work in the years left to him. Through his hundreds of articles and diary entries for Vanity Fair, his six novels, and his presence at countless dinner parties and social events in this country and abroad, he became one of the most loved and recognizable writers in the world..."
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