The Lost Symbol

I had constant daja vu reading this book. It was the same old sucsessful book formula rehashed. No real surprises in the book. I felt a bit conned out of the money I paid for the book.

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I was curious to see a blockbuster best seller at work, and was impressed with the vigor and twists and turns in the plot. Dan Brown asks his readers to accept myths, religious practices, pieces of history and the most advanced, secretive technology. And we as readers do - we accept it. But there are swathes of the text that I cannot believe. The characters keep on running without drink, food, sleep. People joke and embrace after experiencing the most appalling trauma. There appears to be minimal security in some of the most secure buildings in the world, and the large scale damage to buildings of national significance fails to attract the attention of the police, the fire department or the military - what would Hollywood have done? He also doesn't answer the question what makes someone evil - the very crux of the plot. This was annoying, because the story is a good one, albeit pasted into the DVC formula. Mr Brown also needs to check his geography of the Greek islands.

A well paced novel, that had too much crash bang wallop for me - I think I would have preferred more subtlety and hints. It was too in yer face and exhausting as we followed Robert Langdon all over Washington. Don't you think this man might have retired by now?

Dan Brown (0/0 people found this helpful)

I can't review, this book personally. It was a gift for my wife. She is saying is great.

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In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling -- a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date

The Tedious Symbol (0/0 people found this helpful)

There are many problems with this book, somehow I made it to the end! (It was hard work...)

Content: The main thing which grated on my nerves was the idea that science should look to religion to make ground-breaking discoveries. This idea is introduced quite early on and reoccurs. Would anyone actually seriously entertain that idea? Dan Brown has probably annoyed both religious people and atheists with this book.

Plot: You soon work out the secret about a particular character early on. As others have pointed out each chapter ends with a cliffhanger, but when the cliffhanger is revealed it's not interesting. I think that's because the content is so unbelievable, actually worse than unbelievable, just silly. The ending is convenient for the "good guys", who may be responsible for bringing about a tragedy. The characters don't even ask "Did we do something wrong?". It seem's likely they did, but never mind they are the "good guys" after all, and we do have some sybolic meaning still to uncover...Which is another stupendous let down, but by then you expect to be let down.

Style: There's a lot of repetition. The pointless thoughts of characters are shared with the reader, these are just annoying as none of the characters seem real.

Characters: The hansome symbolist, the beautiful scientist, the good friend / prominent mason and the scarry tattooed man. That's as deep as it get's.

Dan Brown

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