Five books to read before The Lost Symbol

[Robin Landseadel]

Even better: Five books to read instead of "The Lost Symbol", Dan  
Brown's soon-coming up, sure to be a blockbuster follow-up to The Da  
Vinci Code. A good list too, including CoL49, The Illuminatus! Trilogy  
by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson & Radio Free Albemuth by Philip  
K Dick, I've read all three and the other two—DeLillo's "Libra" and  
Eco's Foucault’s Pendulum—have been on my short-list for years:

	2. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
	Wilson (805 pages, Dell). In no way for every reader out there,
	The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a sublime, surreal piece of cult-SciFi,
	Dan Brown with a sense of humor, seventy-five pellets of
	mescaline and five sheets of high-powered blotter acid.

a-a-a-and it's even better than Chris Deal's description. I mean, it's  
nothing like Dan Brown's shit. . .

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