hurrying through D.C.'s underground!

I just finished off another reading-session, and I am proud to present the fact that I am currently about to start chapter 58/153! (it was 153 I said last time, wasn't it?). Well done, if I'm to say so myself.

I won't spoil whats happening, because my old friend Andreas have taught me to hate spoiling of any sort, if it's about books, movies, video games  or what so ever, but I can say that it all gets pretty damn exciting! The horrible bad-ass of the book reveals his story - excuse me - the story of the badass' life is revealed, though not by himself. The main plot have accelerated in high speed since the last update as well - I've noticed that Browns books do that - they often start off a bit slow, dull, some might say, because there is a lot to explain about the characters, the plot, the setting and so on, and after a 100 pages approximately, the whole action-balloon simply pops, and things really start to happen.

So, instead of revealing what's happening before you get there for yourself, I'll focus on the two tasks you've given us - the character and the setting. I've already written about Robert Langdon in a former blog post, but that was not too consistent or accurate, simply because I was uninformed about the task when I wrote it.

So, some more about Robert Langdon is coming up right now; to make it simple (and add an illusion of me being well organized and structured, because my text will look so neatly set up), I'll make the whole thing listed under the questions we were supposed to answer.

How would you describe the main character(s)?

Robert Langdon is a middle-aged Harvard symbologist. He is an athletic guy, former water polo-champion and an active swimmer. He wears a wristwatch of plastic with Mickey Mouses face on it, and he has claustrophobic tendencies. Quite bad for him, as he again and again over the three books find himself in underground waults, hidden chambers, oxygen-regulated libraries in the Vatican and so on. He is into art, probably because of all the hidden messages and symbols hidden in paintings, sculptures etcetera. He is also interested in architecture, probably of the very same reason as for paintings. Robert is also full of knowledge about the Freemasons, and two of his adventures feature A LOT of links to the masonry - The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown does indeed know a lot about this community of people.

Robert teaches students at Harvard about symbols around us, and different types of symbols that have occurred around the world throughout history. All of the books include heavy amounts of decoding and dechriffering ancient symbols and hidden routes to the next part of his treasure hunt etc. 

Robert have also got quite an amazing amount of powerful friends, both in the US and in Europe.

I'm not sure about what more to add on this question - you would eventually know this, and everything else there is to know about Robert if you've read the former books about him.. Lets move to the next step!

Do you like him/her/them?

I adore Robert Langdon, and I find him totally awesome. Really! 

What literary techniques are used to describe themain character (narrator, language, symbols, etc.)?

Good question.. We get to know Robert over all of the three books, and there is often something new and unexpected we get to know about him, either by his reactions in a specific situation, things he say or things that is told the reader from the narrator. The descriptions doesn't come in line in the first chapters, like in many other books, but we get to know him better and better during the entire series. 

Thats basically it, because of the fact that I am going to bed approximately an hour ago, so right now I'll stop writing this blog and go for an 8 hour powernap, and tell you all about the setting tomorrow.. or the day after tomorrow.. Seeya!