As you may know, there is a very popular writer named Dan Brown, who is the author of a not-yet-long series of thrillers starring a Harvard professor. Of Brown's The Da Vinci Code, blogger-despising John Cheever daughter-in-law Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times that this was a "gleefully erudite" and "exhilaratingly brainy thriller." Of Brown's latest, she wrote: "he's bringing sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead." Ha ha, Janet Maslin! This newest book, The Lost Symbol, has already sold two million copies in the U.S., and, as of Tuesday, a week after release, half a million copies in the U.K., as well as 100,000 e-books through Amazon, which is the form in which I purchased it, so that I could read for myself this book that is, it turns out, actively hostile and underming to all of the tenets of Republican, conservative and Christian America. READ MORE 30