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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Lost Symbol was everything I expected - full of odd information, puzzles, and quick action. I just wish I had stopped before the last chapter and imagined some other treasure as I found the one they found to be a let down and not that radical., otherwise, a great way to spend a couple of cold winter afternoons snuggled up inside. (  ) MissReadsTooMuch | Jan 3, 2010 |  The third Robert Langdon novel doesn't disappoint! It gives the same feelings of suspense as The Da Vinci Code, which is great, so long as you enjoyed The Da Vinci Code as much as I did. Unfortunately, the style and characters are the only ties between this novel and its predecessor. It is actually more like Angels and Demons in its plotline. The Lost Symbol goes into great detail into historic rituals, and abandons the artistic references. Instead, it centers around philosophic and scientific ideas that were prominent themes in the first novel of the series. (  )1  missmaddie | Jan 1, 2010 | As usual, this Dan Brown book was hard to put down. It did have some of the starting-to-wear-thin themes about the Masons and the Church. The references to noetic science seemed a bit stretched and far-fetched, but I could suspend disbelief long enough to read the story. The revelation at the end was no real surprise, and the ending was actually disappointing. Nevertheless, a fun read. ( )1 tgraettinger | Dec 31, 2009 | 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. (  )1 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. (  )1 misibea | Dec 31, 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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