Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Review
The Lost Symbol Book Review Although Dan Brown's latest book has been released for some time now, I recently found a copy of the Lost Symbol at my local library and was quite pleased with the book, even though I don't think it was as good as the hype which surrounded it.
To start, I don't share Dan Brown's concern with secret societies.
I believe that often the Catholic Church and groups like the Mason's are unfairly targeted because people don't receive answers to their questions, sometimes and more often then not I think questions cannot be answered because there is absolutely nothing sinister going on.
The first two thirds of the book were incredibly interesting and in many ways, I thought Brown's best work to date.
He weaves an intricate tale of deception, science, religion and makes it hard to understand whose side certain characters fall into such as the deputy director of the CIA (Inuoe Sato).
It is this uncertainly and concern over the well being of wealthy Mason Peter Solomon that really drives the story and his well being is at stake until the very end of the novel, as is the well being for all protagonist characters like Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and Solomon's sister Katherine.
I especially enjoyed the book because it gave quite a bit of unknown history about both the United States as well as Washington DC, the Masons and other less known groups.
When compared with the Da Vinci Code, I generally found many of the facts both more surprising and harder to believe simply because the United States is so much younger then the Catholic Church and I believe that secrets are often kept by organizations the older and older they get.
Without giving away the ending, I was disappointed with the last hundred pages or so of the book.
I felt the ending was both overly melodramatic and entirely predicatable which is unfortunate given some of the twists and turns that Brown managed to pack into the book from its outset.
If you enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, I can highly suggest the Lost Symbol.
Brown provides another enjoyable read, even if you don't agree with all his assertions it's a good story, I just don't believe it is an instant classic like some of his other work.
To start, I don't share Dan Brown's concern with secret societies.
I believe that often the Catholic Church and groups like the Mason's are unfairly targeted because people don't receive answers to their questions, sometimes and more often then not I think questions cannot be answered because there is absolutely nothing sinister going on.
The first two thirds of the book were incredibly interesting and in many ways, I thought Brown's best work to date.
He weaves an intricate tale of deception, science, religion and makes it hard to understand whose side certain characters fall into such as the deputy director of the CIA (Inuoe Sato).
It is this uncertainly and concern over the well being of wealthy Mason Peter Solomon that really drives the story and his well being is at stake until the very end of the novel, as is the well being for all protagonist characters like Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and Solomon's sister Katherine.
I especially enjoyed the book because it gave quite a bit of unknown history about both the United States as well as Washington DC, the Masons and other less known groups.
When compared with the Da Vinci Code, I generally found many of the facts both more surprising and harder to believe simply because the United States is so much younger then the Catholic Church and I believe that secrets are often kept by organizations the older and older they get.
Without giving away the ending, I was disappointed with the last hundred pages or so of the book.
I felt the ending was both overly melodramatic and entirely predicatable which is unfortunate given some of the twists and turns that Brown managed to pack into the book from its outset.
If you enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, I can highly suggest the Lost Symbol.
Brown provides another enjoyable read, even if you don't agree with all his assertions it's a good story, I just don't believe it is an instant classic like some of his other work.
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