Interesting Facts about Dan Brown’s Novels

Ah, welcome back to my weblog! Finally, I found a topic for my new post. This article, I promise you, will not be as hard as my former article to digest (don’t lie to me, I knew some people did not finish reading my article… for some reasons, I guess).

This article contains some “Easter eggs” I found after recollecting some of Dan Brown’s novels I’ve read (especially Robert Langdon trilogy). Here are the facts:

1. Robert Langdon is a representation of Dan Brown himself: smart, handsome, friendly, and casual (except the fact that Robert Langdon is a great swimmer, which I haven’t found that fact on Dan Brown; and the Mickey Mouse watch).
2. In “The Lost Symbol”, Robert Langdon took a quotation from another Dan Brown’s novel: “Digital Fortress”. This is a nasty one; he said that he read it from an ordinary thriller novel (special thanks to fanderlart for this info!).
3. Dan Brown really loves wordplay! You can see it from some anagrams he used: “Oh, lame saint!”; “O, Draconian Devil!”; “N. Dakota” (which was later perceived as “North Dakota”); “Jehova Sanctus Unus”; and so many more.
4. All Dan Brown’s novels always include some real facts, but somehow he blends it perfectly to the story so it becomes hard to recognize as a fact. For example: Illuminati brotherhood really did exist. But the Illuminati diamond? The fact is, it was a Dan Brown’s colleague who created the ambigram of Illuminati.
5. The title of his books doesn’t give quite proper image of the story. In fact, it has nothing to do with the story:
   1. The Da Vinci Code: it’s an anagram (code?) that reads “Leonardo Da Vinci” when decrypted.
   2. Angels and Demons: refers to a rule which many physicists believe, dualism.
   3. The Lost Symbol: refers to the item that was stolen, a symbolon.
   4. For “Digital Fortress” and “Deception Point”, I haven’t found out what they mean. But don’t worry; I’ll let you know when I find it out.

Quite unique, eh? Of course! That’s why I like his novels. For you who haven’t read any of his novels, I suggest you “Angels & Demons” to start. In my opinion, that’s the best among the others. But I’m warning you, don’t watch the movie! It’ll ruin everything! I think everyone would agree to my opinion (if they have read the book) that the movie is actually very, very bad (in term of the story, of course – the cinematic effects, however, was great).

So, what are you waiting for? Start reading! If you don’t own the book, buy it! (or look for someone who does, and ask him/her to lend you one)