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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
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The Lost Symbol (original 2009; edition 2012)

by Dan Brown

Series: Robert Langdon (3)

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Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
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Title:The Lost Symbol
Authors:Dan Brown
Info:Anchor (2012), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 624 pages
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (2009)

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Just started this one. It inspired quite a battle of opinions between my facebook friends so I can't wait to see which side I fall on!

Well -- I didn't love it but I didn't COMPLETELY hate it either. I went into it kind of like I'd go into a summer blockbuster movie: expecting to be entertained but not have to use my brain too much. I think that's about what I got.

I found it pretty repetitive and pretty annoying (enough with the Ancient Mysteries already) but the puzzles were fun and I was surprised by some things that happened.

But for a piece of fluff, it was just fine. I think Dan Brown needs to find something less religious and mystical to write about next. And he needs to lighten up on the physical descriptions. He has tatoos, we know, stop telling me! ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Slow moving and not as interesting as The Da Vinci Code. The history and symbolism were not well integrated into the plot. It felt as those there were long sections of the book that were like text book excerpts not moving the novel and the plot forward. ( )
  Rachelleweight | Jan 22, 2024 |
A good vacation read. I didn't find it as intriguing or unable to put down as I did the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. But, it was entertaining and interesting.

I just don't read print format books as fast as I do ebooks (which I'm always able to carry with me), so this one took me a while. ( )
  Colleen.Greene | Dec 17, 2023 |
Formulaic, but fun. ( )
  medwyn1066 | Nov 28, 2023 |
The 3rd Robert Langdon story, set in Washington. Very similar to the previous two books with a lot of running around. This time Langdon has been invited to Washington to give a lecture at the Smithsonian by his friend Peter Solomon, only to find his friend has been kidnapped and it was the kidnapper that had lured him there to decipher a Freemason's pyramid to find the location of the Lost Word, buried somewhere in the capital. In the meantime, the kidnapper has attracted the attention of the CIA, who want to avert a national crisis by cooperating with him, whether that helps to rescue Peter Solomon or not. Katherine, his sister, is also targetted as the kidnapper tries to destroy both her and her work on the Noetic sciences. Katherine and Langdon manage to solve the secret of the pyramid together, as they dart around the city, whilst avoiding the CIA. With a couple of interesting twists near the end, disaster is averted and all is eventually revealed. Despite the formulaic style, I enjoyed this fast-paced historical tour of Washington and the peek into freemason philosophy. I also found the ending to be more satisfying as time was taken to explain the meaning of the ancient mysteries. ( )
  LindaLiu | Sep 19, 2023 |
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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.
added by Shortride | editThe Age, Simon Caterson (Sep 19, 2009)
 
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.
added by camillahoel | editRead And Find Out, Tom (Sep 17, 2009)
 
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.
added by Shortride | editThe Times, Andrew Collins (Sep 16, 2009)
 
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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Andersson, Leo(Övers.)secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Boldrini, AlexandreTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Conde, ClaudiaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Defert, DominiqueTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Nimpoeno, Ingrid DwijaniTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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To live in the world without becoming
aware of the meaning of the world is
like wandering about in a great library
without touching the books.

The Secret Teachings
of All Ages
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For Blythe
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The secret is how to die.
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Neckties had been required six days a week when Langdon attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and despite the headmaster's romantic claims that the origin of the cravat went back to the silk fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal cords, Langdon knew that, etymologically, cravat actually derived from a ruthless band of "Croat" mercenaries who donned knotted neckerchiefs before they stormed into battle. To this day, this ancient battle garb was donned by modern office warriors hoping to intimidate their enemies in daily boardroom battles.
The only wrinkle was the bloody black-clad heap in the foyer with a screwdriver protruding from his neck.
It was no coincidence that Christians were taught that Jesus was crucified at age thirty-three …
Thankfully, this particular crypt contained no bodies. … The entourage hurried through, without even a glance at the four-pointed marble compass in the center of the floor where the Eternal Flame had once burned.
His hips and abdomen were the archways of mystical power. Hanging beneath the archway [sic], his massive sex organ bore the tattooed symbols of his destiny. In another life, this heavy shaft of flesh had been his source of carnal pleasure. But no longer.
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Známeho harvardského odborníka na ikonografiu Roberta Langdona nečakane pozvú prednášať do washingtonského Kapitolu. Pozvanie mu cez sprostredkovateľa zašle jeho mentor, filantrop, historik, vedec a slobodomurár Peter Solomon, preto Langdon rád vyhovie. Lenže prednášková sála zíva prázdnotou... Hrozný nález odťatej ruky so zlatým prsteňom a s tetovaním dokazuje, že Solomona uniesli a jeho život je v Langdonových rukách. Musí vyriešiť jednu z najväčších záhad ľudských dejín, ktorá však môže otriasť samotnými základmi kresťanskej viery. Nejde však len o tajomstvo z dávnych dôb slobodomurárstva, ale aj z nedávnej minulosti a Langdona na konci jeho cesty čaká jedno z najprekvapujúcejších odhalení, s akými sa doteraz stretol.
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