{"id":1596,"date":"2009-10-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:11:34","slug":"the-lost-symbol-by-dan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lost Symbol&#8221; by Dan Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lost-symbol-cover.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lost-symbol-cover-198x300.jpg\" vr=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Dan Brown, author of &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m not going to spoil things for you I&#8217;ll just say that nobody is better than Dan Brown&nbsp;at creating impossible predicaments for their characters and then creatively getting them out of the situation. He is amazing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">This is only the second book I&#8217;ve read by Dan Brown, (I tried reading &#8220;Angels and Demons&#8221; but chucked it into the corner after the first chapter.) but based on this book and &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; 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&#8217;t literary fiction. The second part is science fiction. His science fiction is not the greatest. That is what caused me to throw &#8220;Angels and Demons&#8221; across the room and scare the cats. The third part is the religious\/philosophical\/spiritual side. <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">That third part is what proved very popular in &#8220;The Da Vinci Code.&#8221; 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">&#8220;The Lost Symbol&#8221; has that element about freemasonry. It delves quite deep into it. I am not believing any of it.&nbsp; So there. <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Still this book gets four stars out of four. Read it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The book has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostsymbol.com\/main.html\">web site<\/a>. Dan Brown has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danbrown.com\/\">web site<\/a> also.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Brown, author of &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; 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. 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