Dan Brown's THE LOST SYMBOL
 

I'm surprised nobody posted this. I'm a HUGE Dan Brown fan, and I think this is such awesome news!

http://www.danbrown.com/the-lost-symbol.html

Yeah... been waiting for this since it was called Solomon Key. He's also gonna be writing one about Mozart being part of some weird cult thing.

Wow! I hadn't heard about the Mozart book. That is too cool! I'm a HUGE Dan Brown fan. And Steve Berry also, have you ever read his work? I highly suggest the "Cotton Malone" novels by Steve Berry, the first one is 'The Templar Legacy'.

I read somewhere they are already planning to make 'The Lost Symbol' into a movie. Speaking of reading something somewhere, I remember reading that Dan Brown said the date of the release would be significant, and you'd understand upon reading the book. I wonder what that could mean?

Oh..hmm.. Didn't know Templar Legacy is a series...*lol* I have it around here somewhere....I love anything to do with the Templars.

And they already DID make The Lost Symbol into a movie...it was called National Treasure....:P Seriously The National Treasure films and Lost Symbol have basically the same plot.

But anyways...there's gonna be like 14 or 15 books in all for the Robert Langdon series... Tom Hanks has a lifetime job now *lol*

Here's a site that might interest you. Theories on Solomon Key (uh apperantly there's some sort of connection to the Mormons? Uh WTF? I really wanna read that book now if that's true...)
http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/sk/index.htm

I study the Templars a lot. Actually, I'm pretty intense about my research, mainly because of my dad's side of the family.

The second book after the Templar Legacy is the Alexandria Link, about the Library of Alexandria. It is awesome!

Thank you for the link! I checked it out, but I'm off tomorrow so I can get in deeper with it. I've been on a mad quest researching September 15th. Awhile ago, Dan Brown said he had a very specific release date in mind for the book and that the readers would understand when they've read the book. Now that may have changed since I think it was 3 years ago I read that, but you never know. So far, the most interesting thing I've found is that on September 15, 1789 President Washington signed the legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs (State Department). One of the responsiblities was to be the keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, which could certainly be a connection to the Masons.

Mormons? Really, ok now I'm seriously wanting that book!

Oh, and I have to add, the National Treasure movies are some of my favorites of all time, so a new version is fine with me! :lol:

The following things have occured on Sept 15th:

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is raped in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.

921 – Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.

1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain.

1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

1600 – Battle of Sekigahara.

1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.

1762 – Battle of Signal Hill.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.

1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).

1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.

1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.

1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.

1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens

1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.

1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

1883 – The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.

1931 – In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.

1935 – Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.

1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.

1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.

1942 – World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.

1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.

1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.

1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 mph (1080 km/h).

1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea.

1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.

1957 – West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.

1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.

1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.

1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

1972 – A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.

1972 – An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.

1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.

1981 – The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.

1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.

1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.

1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.

1987 – U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

1989 – The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.

1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf

1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament

1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.

2004 – NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.

2008 – Lehman Brothers file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. History.

You're kidding, right? That's like something I'd make up if I was trying to parody Dan Brown.

I only read "Angels & Demons" and it made me want to kill myself.

This one sticks out to me the most. But, I'm probably missing something.

I found the article where I read that;

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120122061077215305.html

The part where it mentions the date;

And the part I found quite interesting when I just re-read the article;

I know the date of the release is the 15th but this is too close to be coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences at all actually.

Incidently, the numerology for 9/15/2009 is 8, the sign of infinity. But, I'm probably one of the few that finds that interesting.

Numerology has always fascinated me. That's way kewl... 8 hmmm

I was reading a theory about the release date of 'The Lost Symbol' on one of the book forums I frequent. After some reasearch, and going to see Angels and Demons again, I have to say, this makes a lot of sense.

From the section on "Accuracy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Christ

Interesting to say the least. Especially to astrology buffs like me. A triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces an rare occurence we have never again experienced? Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this.

... WHAT?!

I guess this must be what Dan Brown means.

Cover art revealed! The US version is on the left, UK on the right!

http://www.jaunted.com/files/1425/Da...LostSymbol.jpg

I was also wondering if anyone else has been trying to solve 'The Lost Symbol' puzzles on Twitter and Facebook?

I just joined his Facebook thing and am trying to figure em out now.

Uh....

Yeah, some of them are really hard. I usually just end up looking at the other comments on a lot of these.