The Lost Symbol

[Tin-Chicken]

The Tesla Roadster is mentioned on page 352 of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I think this is the first mention in a novel ...

Fame!

Lisa.

 

[mpt]

Can you post an extract? I think that should be ok copyright wise?

 

[Tin-Chicken]

Can you post an extract? I think that should be ok copyright wise?

Here's the extract:

The half dozen cars parked haphazardly in the driveway looked nothing like the police cars and emergency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.
A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?
​

Not terribly exciting!

Lisa.

 

[efusco]

I'm usually not the grammar police, but this one bugged me a bit.
The word is excerpt.
Sorry.

 

[Arnold Panz]

Here's the extract:

The half dozen cars parked haphazardly in the driveway looked nothing like the police cars and emergency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.
A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?
​

Not terribly exciting!

Lisa.

Well, it's nice that Brown (or his editor) thought to gratuitously add in the Roadster to a book that will get read by millions. I particularly like the juxtaposition of the Hummer and the Roadster.

 

[raymond]

Here's the extract:

A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?​

That should have read: A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? . . . a Tesla?

Now it's brand, brand, model. But I guess just "Tesla" wouldn't be understood by a larger audience.

 

[Tin-Chicken]

I'm usually not the grammar police, but this one bugged me a bit.
The word is excerpt.
Sorry.

Ahem.

Extract Definition | Definition of Extract at Dictionary.com
10. a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation. \

Lisa, former editor, Tesla Motors Blog.:wink:

 

[TEG]

When I first saw the thread title of this topic, I half expected to see something like this:

 

[efusco]

Ahem.

Extract Definition | Definition of Extract at Dictionary.com
10. a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation. \

Lisa, former editor, Tesla Motors Blog.:wink:

Fair enough...hadn't memorized down to the 10th definition of extract...:frown:

 

[doug]

Frequency of usage may differ across the pond.

 

[Carl]

Anyone notice Robert Langdon is driving a Tesla X P90D in Dan Brown's new novel Origin (just as Dan Brown drives one himself in real life)?

Quite some flattering comments on the car. And, spoiler alert: thanks to a hack, it is FSD !!

Well, that's why they call it fiction I suppose