“The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown

Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code” has written another thriller and its a good one. Robert Langdon the famed symbologist is back in the middle of things, this time in Washington, D.C. and finds himself right in the middle of another deadly story involving solving puzzles involving ancient codes, ciphers, and secrets.
I’m not going to spoil things for you I’ll just say that nobody is better than Dan Brown at creating impossible predicaments for their characters and then creatively getting them out of the situation. He is amazing.
This is only the second book I’ve read by Dan Brown, (I tried reading “Angels and Demons” but chucked it into the corner after the first chapter.) but based on this book and “The Da Vinci Code” it seems that there are three parts to his books. The first part is the basic story with the characters. He is great at that. Now I know his characters are pretty much one dimensional but that is the nature of the genre. We want action in a thriller and some butt kicking. This isn’t literary fiction. The second part is science fiction. His science fiction is not the greatest. That is what caused me to throw “Angels and Demons” across the room and scare the cats. The third part is the religious/philosophical/spiritual side.
That third part is what proved very popular in “The Da Vinci Code.” I fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It was only after the book had been out for a while did articles appear about how it was pretty much made up. Some simple research showed that it was almost completely made up. It had some grains of truth in it. But it was almost totally fiction.
“The Lost Symbol” has that element about freemasonry. It delves quite deep into it. I am not believing any of it.  So there.
Still this book gets four stars out of four. Read it.
The book has its own web site. Dan Brown has a web site also.

10 thoughts on ““The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown”

  6. Brit Gal Sarah

    I read this in 3 days, after getting it the day of publication and loved it, but I also loved A&D!

    Now you need to read Deception Point, an early one of his but still great.

  8. bARE-eYED sUN

    thanks for the review,
    we’ve been putting off
    reading Brown’s latest
    because our “to read list”
    is huge.

    your review has shot
    THE LOST SYMBOL
    to the top of the pile.

    thank you.

    ..
    .ero

  9. P M Prescott

    I liked the way Dan Brown tied in movies to make his point if The Da Vinci Code. They kept that part out in the movie. I’m waiting for this one to make it to Hastings books on CD so I can rent it and listen to it. I’ve found books like this are better listened to than read.

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