Real and accurate?

For those poor souls who, believing what he says, read his books for information as well as entertainment, the Telegraph catalogs a few of Dan Brown's factual errors:

Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol opens with a bold word: FACT. "All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real", it says.

The Da Vinci Code, his previous bestseller, began in a similar fashion. "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate", Brown says before the prologue.

So is that true? We take a look at 50 of Brown's more contentious points in the two novels and a third, Angels and Demons, his previous work also starring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. ....

Some are major, some are minor. They are divided, somewhat arbitrarily, into categories of "History", "Geography", "Science", "Symbols, Religion and Mythology", "Language" and "Miscellany". .... [the fifty errors are here]

The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown: 50 factual errors - Telegraph