Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol," is breaking all time one-day sales records

SHOOT: Amazingly, Dan Brown's books deal with shadowy organisations that don't really exist and that tend to be critical, even subversive essays somewhat critical of conventional religion. Langdon, after all, Brown's protagonist is not a believer, but he is highly educated. It is interesting to see that the market really wants this sort of thing - criticism of religious thought veiled under a veneer of a fictional, somewhat informed thriller. Freemasonry and the Illuminati seem to be a fictional threat created by Christians to bolster their members, rather than a real, credible, shadowy conspiracy. This is because real conspiracies are both more troubling, and unfortunately very real. An example? A seemingly boring company called Goldman Sachs. A financial clearing house for middle class money that is wiping out the US middle class, benefitting the GS boyz [from Bernanke to Paulsson to all the other Wall Street and White House big wigs] and turning the world economy to mush while they run away with million dollar bonusses. The truth is scarier than fiction.

clipped from news.yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The latest novel from "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown, "The Lost Symbol," broke one-day sales records, its publisher and booksellers said. Readers snapped up over one million hardcover copies across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom after it was released on Tuesday, said publisher Knopf Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc. "We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for 'The Lost Symbol," said Sonny Mehta, editor in chief of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Knopf Doubleday is a division of Random House Inc. Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest online retailer, called the book its bestselling first-day adult fiction title ever, including pre-orders. Barnes & Noble Inc said "The Lost Symbol" broke its previous one-day sales record for adult fiction.