I'm desperately (and geekily) trying to figure out whether the half-angel/half-demon statue they used in the marketing campaign for Angels & Demons is a fake or a forgotten masterpiece. I'm leaning towards fake, but you never know...
In the mean time, though, I'm waiting for the new Dan Brown book to go through its mandatory Early Hype phase before it lands up in one of my local cheap-and-dusty second-hand bookshops. I'm in two minds about The Lost Symbol: on one hand, I've enjoyed all his other books; on the other, I know that Dan Brown doesn't let things like historical accuracy or common sense or good writing get in the way of a good (coughairportnovelcough) story.
While I wait for my used-book bonanza, though, I'm going to keep on creating my own Dan Brown novels using Slate.com's hilarious Interactive Dan Brown Sequel Generator. You enter a city (say, Paris) and a society that ignorant tin-foil-hatters like to pick on (Scientologists, Mafia, Major League Baseball...), and – hey, presto! – the gizmo creates a summary of a Dan Brown novel.
Formulaic? You bet.