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Book for the Future

Most booklovers could spend the whole of their hard-earned pocketmoney on books, so really expensive ones can make you wince. But limited edition books are worth a second glance, despite their cost. Produced for both collectors and for lovers of fine things, a good limited edition will look gorgeous as well as being a special read. They usually have their own slipcases and will therefore last forever dust-free, they are often signed by the author, and sometimes they come with valuable artwork such as colour plates, postcards or prints.

Since they are expensive (one hundred pounds or more is not uncommon for art books), publishers do at least pull out the stops to make them attractive. For example, the contemporary British artist Paul Horton has produced a limited edition book ’In My Life'which includes a special limited edition giclée print of one of his works.

I don’t normally like to recommend books for any reason other than because they are a good read. But apart from the pleasure of collecting nice books, buying limited editions makes great sense for the future since they are a good, solid investment. Although they can cost enough to start with, many of them go up in value as soon as the print run sells out. And obviously, because there is a limit to the number published, competition from collectors can be fierce. For example, limited edition books by the occultist Kenneth Grant, produced by Starfire Publishing, cost between £40 and £60 when first released. A few years later, they are selling for several hundred pounds.

It’s good to find instances when one’s hobby or interest can also make money!

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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

It is almost like a trilogy starting from the Angels and Demons, to The Da Vinci Code and then coming to the Lost Symbol which takes its main protagonist through a whirlwind world full of encryption and traditions of bygone eras. Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist meets his damsel in distress, Katherine, in a quest to free his mentor Peter Solomon, who by the way has not been brought up in the novels before and is also the elder brother of Katherine, from the clutches of the only apparent villain in the story, Mal’akh.

Dan Brown, who is very often mocked at for his writing skills despite being one of the most sought after authors, does not fail to amuse you with his literature abilities in this novel. Using inane dialogues which required no real spurts of creativity, the interactions between the characters are less than interesting. What keeps your rapt attention is the whole maze of the gallows that the characters have to find their way through in the underbelly of Washington D.C. to unravel the “Great Ancient Mysteries” of a sect called the Masons who are an elusive and exclusive group of men as well as women who yield much power in the world. To keep the secret in tact so that the world does not end if the knowledge gets out of this privileged group, Brown gets his main characters to extract assistance from many other intellectually canny individuals throughout the story who help in their own right to put the pieces of the mystery together and to help find Peter Solomon.

A novel which took six years to write in undoubtedly a long read but loses you in between except for the fact that you want to understand why the villain is so hung up on revealing the great secret of the Masons. The book is a good investment, if you are a fan of Dan Brown, unless you have found this online jewellery shop that sells pretty baubles at the same price.

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