Sydney girl unlocks Brown's latest secret

15 Sep 2009, 2:18 pm   -   Source: AAP
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Deep inside the sandstone fortress of Sydney's NSW State Library, a select few were let in on an incredible secret (AAP)

Deep inside the sandstone fortress of Sydney's NSW State Library, a select few were let in on an incredible secret (AAP)

Speed reader Carly Palmer has taken two hours and 34 minutes to be the first in Australia to decipher 'The Lost Symbol'.

Carly Palmer is one of the first to be let in on a worldwide secret.

The secret is Dan Brown's latest novel - The Lost Symbol - and 23-year-old Ms Palmer had become one of the first in the world to read it this morning.

The Randwick resident was the winner of a speed-reading competition run by publisher Random House to find Australia's fastest reader.

Ms Palmer completed the 509 pages in two hours and 34 minutes, beating 26 others.

Her prize is a collection of books, plus bragging rights.

The Lost Symbol sees a return of Robert Langdon, the protagonist  from The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, uncovering a mystery in Washington involving the fraternal organisation, The Freemasons.

Given the honour of delivering one of the book's first reviews, Ms Palmer said it would not disappoint The Da Vinci Code's legion of followers.

The book had literally been kept under wraps in the sort of security usually reserved for Harry Potter.

Bookshops had to sign a confidentiality agreement saying they would not open the
books until nine o'clock this morning.

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sure hope the Christians don't kill Dan Brown this time.

Dan - from Melbourne, 3 years ago

sure hope the Christians don't kill Dan Brown this time.

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