Fascinating article at Vanity Fair about Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol come to life:
In late 2001, some of the de Védrines began to abandon the long-established routines of their lives. Gradually, 11 members of the family, spanning three generations, retreated into their ancestral home, a turreted manor called Château Martel, near the 13th-century village of Monflanquin, [...]

Dan Brown writes at a third grade level.  That also doesn’t matter.  All of the reviewers making fun of Dan Brown’s writing are overlooking the main purpose of a Dan Brown novel – the subject.  The Lost Symbol is a seriously transgressive book, as was The Da Vinci Code.  Putting aside the reality of the [...]