Just bought mine from MPH KLIA after touchdown from Amsterdam. Was their third purchaser of the anticipated book. Bought with staff discount. Retails at RM99.90. You have the option of getting either the US Doubleday publisher edition or the UK version. Personally, I think the US version look spiffier. And three cheers for early opening MPH KLIA.

I'm not sure what the deal is with MPH, but Kinokuniya preorders for this book is entitled for 30% discount off that RM99.90 price. Gonna use that discount later to get the UK Edition. for everyone's info, only hardcover editions are available now.

Later on at 2pm today, will be logging in into my Amazon account and purchase the Kindle Edition, USD9.99. Delivery will be instantaneous of course, via Amazon Digital Locker. That way, I can keep the hardcovers pristine in the house library.

Will Robert Langdon be tossing cryptex in the air again or looking for antimatter timebombs again? From the cover, looks like it's in the States in the Capitol revolving around the Freemasons. Delicious!

Oh, did I mention that the US Doubleday Edition looks absolutely gorgeous? Sprinkled with Mason glyphs and symbol it is!

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 15 2009, 08:32 AM

congrats on the book! the cover really looks good. i'm really tempted to run out to buy a copy now hehe. how do you find the book? typical dan brown fare i believe?

is the soft cover version out yet? i find that i'm a softcover(the book, not me!) guy, fits into my backpack easier so i can read on the train

what sort of staff discount do you get stringfellow?

i've just finish reading all 3 of them again

Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Digital Fortress

i cant find my Deception point , so i cant really remember have i read it b4 or not ...

Discount for people working at the airport. 10% off basically. Better still, run out and get it from Kinokuniya. I just got the UK Edition from there, and they are honoring any purchase now for the hardcover at 30% discount with another purchase. Just buy the cheapest pen or something and you're entitled to that discount.

No idea on when the paperback is coming out, but if you're not anal about the cover as I am, that would probably be the edition to get, as it is cheaper and more managable. It is still relatively thick though, at 784 pages.

Standard Dan Brown fare, the antagonist is features on the prologue, and the story bullet-trains off from there. And again, for the third time, the antagonist is another archetype blind-faith persona, it was Silas, the self-flagellating Opus Dei monk in Da Vinci Code, and that Hashshashin in Angels & Demons. This time it's Mal'akh, with tattoos all over save for the top of his bald head. Mal'akh means "angel" in Hebrew, and Langdon describes it perfectly when he say one's definition of an angel or demon depends upon which side looks on it. I'm not going to spoil it further. The previous red-herring title The Solomon Key for this book, is now instead, the character upon which Langdon has to save now,called Peter Solomon, a highest-echelon ranking Masonic member and also Langdon's mentor and father figure, described as being in "Araf" or Purgatory if you read Dante Allighieri's Divine Comedy. I've not yet read far enough to ascertain the fate of Solomon.

Between those 4 only the first two are inter-related books, with recurring main character. Digital Fortress and Deception Point revolves around separate and totally different protagonists.

so what's the opinion about this new book from those who had finished reading?still waiting for the shipment to Kelantan though, dunno when will it arrive....

hi everyone. am a fan of dan brown as well. can't wait to read the book but have to wait for the paperback version

for those wanting to buy, my sister just told me that popular offer 20% rebate for the book. she saw it at the outlet in plaza pelangi, jb. however, i'm not sure whether it's only for the cardholder or not

oh well... i guess there'll be a movie on tiz book in the future...

the book is standard dan brown fare. There are some parts of the book that are merely elaborations on things so those got really slow and I tended to skip those parts. Other than that, I couldn't really put it down except to do homework.

At least there's no sexual relations at the end of it, the way the other four have, so it's different at least in that department. I mean, we all know the style that Dan brown uses ... some crisis happens and specialists are called in, whether it's civilian scientists in Deception Point, or Susan Fletcher in Digital Fortress, Robert Langdon himself in Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Same thing in this one, but mainly Langdon is the specialist. *eyeroll* Not much of a deviation from the rest of his work, I'm afraid, but I like his books because of the historical evidence behind everything in there.

This post has been edited by spunkberry: Sep 28 2009, 03:34 AM

The story may be cookie-cutter, but the message that Dan is playing around here is a little bit more abstract thatn the more straight-forward plots of his previous books. I like the points he brought forward that all religions are merely ways to control its followers, and mankind is created in God's image, that we may one day released our untapped Noetic potential to become one ourselves. There's nothing more crippling than having to conform to set rules and traditions when it comes to showing that you have faith in something in you. Present day religions especially.

same here for me, that's why i'll just wait for the softcover version plus i usually will read it a few times so softcover is preferrable to me.

So it is not only me that noticed that Robert Langdon/hero kept falling into love/bed with his leading ladies. I agreed with Spunkberry. I don't really like his style (why does EVERY chapter end in cliffhanger) or his characters, but thumbs up for making it known to the mass on the historical data/theories in easily digestable form.

Because of that I am waiting for Lost Symbol in paperback. That will take maybe 2 years.

paperback available now.
i got mine at mph midvalley.
rm32.90
20% discount for mrc members until the end of august.