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This book is a 100% rip off of the movie National Treasure. it's all there! It takes place in Washington. It involves Masonic symbolism! It...more
Well, UPS dropped the book off at my house yesterday afternoon and I just finished reading it.
This book is a 100% rip off of the movie National Treasure. it's all there! It takes place in Washington. It involves Masonic symbolism! It takes place in several government buildings and in their unknown basements. It uses the same secret staircase National Treasure used behind a desk in the Library of Congress. There are secret codes on ancient artifacts that lead to other secret codes. It involves the search for a buried treasure. It has them using the works of Ben Franklin to break a code. There's a long staircase seemingly into the unknown, with a treasure buried at the bottom. There's a man and a woman being chased by, and sometimes captured by, the bad guys.
The book is a rip-off!
Additionally, Brown makes several references to his other books and even to his movies. These try to come across as inside jokes, but they fall flat.
There is a lame rip-off book, written a few years ago for Mormon readers, called The Moroni Code. I found it interesting that Brown used the same cypher in this book that the Moroni Code writers used in theirs. Was this a lack of originality or was he ripping-off the rip-off?
I bought this with a 40% off Barnes and Noble coupon, with my membership adding an additional 10%. I'm glad that I didn't pay full price for this.(less)
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