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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. While The Lost Symbol is just The DaVinci Code transposed to Washington DC and freemasonry, Dan Brown's style certainly has improved. The number of awkward moments and unfortunate phrases has declined. As in most thrillers, the overwhelmingly powerful bad guy loses his wit and strength after the half time break. A better writer would have lessened the power inequality. Dan Brown is again weak in the science and technology department. Hanging on to your cell phone while being chased by law enforcement is a bad idea. Surveillance cameras would have thwarted many plot turns. The insufferable ramblings about Noetic "science" further diminish the US public understanding of science. What they do and talk about, is not science but dabbling in mysticism. Unfortunately, Dan Brown' powerful mysteries and revelations are but weak and stale toast. Antics and FX, little information. The CNN of books. (  ) jcbrunner | Dec 31, 2009 |  I have just finished reading Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol'. I enjoyed reading this book with the references to the Freemason's and quantum physics etc. Though I feel the subject matter may be different, the formula with which Mr Brown construct's his book remains the same. There is something lacking in this book but I cannot put my finger on what that 'something' is. What ever the 'something' is, this book is still a good read. (  ) misibea | Dec 31, 2009 | I was a bit nervous to read Dan Brown's new novel because I thoroughly enjoyed his last two so much and it would not have surprised me if this one was not as good. But to my delight, The Lost Symbol began with typical fast-paced mystery and intrigue which did not stop until the very end. I tore through this book at lightening speed. The Lost Symbol is different from The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons in that it follows Robert Langdon as he scurries across Washington D.C. as opposed to countries in Europe. But it is the same in that symbology, mysticism and secret societies abound. There is a crazy evil genius as in the last two books and I will be interested to see who plays his part in the movie adaptation (because we all know a movie will be forthcoming). Essentially, The Lost Symbol has pretty much the same plot as Brown's other two books but I still couldn't put it down. All in all, I enjoyed reading this book a lot, but I am pretty sure this is the last time Dan Brown can write the same book with different characters and slightly different story lines and get away with it. I enjoy Brown's style of writing and the fast-paced excitement of the plots he creates, but I hope he can come up with something new next time. (  ) BusyBookworm | Dec 30, 2009 | Great book! Brown found a great way to endorse religion and yet call for a revolution in religion at the same time. I wonder how much of his audience he lost due to the Davinci Code though... ( ) stevepaun | Dec 30, 2009 | don't waste your time (  ) mumh | Dec 30, 2009 | 
 In the end, as with “The Da Vinci Code,” there’s no payoff. Brown should stop worrying about unfinished pyramids and worry about unfinished novels. At least Spielberg and Lucas gave us an Ark and swirling, dissolving humans. We don’t get any ancient wisdom that “will profoundly change the world as you know it” — just a lot of New Agey piffle about how we are the gods we’ve been waiting for. (And a father-son struggle for global domination, as though we didn’t get enough of that with the Bushes.)  There are moments of excitement in this skilfully edited, deeply implausible thriller. At times the suspense is prolonged rather than sustained, but the 500 pages turn steadily and the overall effect is entertaining and certainly family-friendly. The Lost Symbol is violent but remarkably chaste and devoid of profanity. If you hate Dan Brown, you're going to hate this book. It seems Brown has decided to irk his critics by repeating every flaw he's been accused of. ... No, it's not Foucault's Pendulum. It doesn't even come close. However, if you liked Dan Brown's previous books you're likely to enjoy this one. There is some interesting trivia about the history of Washington, DC which is in fact true, which is an added bonus.  It’s true, his style is as baldly prosaic as legend, but there remains a heft to his potboilers that is hard to imitate. He is better at conveying claustrophobia and breathlessness than, say, the explosion of a top-secret lab (“fragments of titanium mesh . . . droplets of melted silicon” etc) but the latter will make a juicier scene come the inevitable Tom Hanks movie, and the author knows this.  As a thriller, "The Lost Symbol" is exciting, although readers of "The Da Vinci Code" will notice that some of the same stock characters and creaky plot devices pop up... As District of Columbia resident, I must say that Mr. Brown does a first-rate job of delivering a Cook's tour with duly sinister overtones of Washington's famous sites... It's when Mr. Brown interrupts his storytelling to deliver one of his many lectures on Christian intolerance—with pointed digs at the American religious right—that "The Lost Symbol" becomes a didactic bore.
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