Has megaselling author Dan Brown lost his power to shock and awe? First, the official newspaper of the Vatican declared the movie version of Angels & Demons to be "more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity." And now, a senior representative of the Freemasons has called Dan Brown's latest, The Lost Symbol, the work of a "terrific novelist" that contains "nothing ... that will offend my organization." This just reinforces our belief that Brown should've focused on the Stonecutters instead. [Reuters]