The Lost Symbol / Dan Brown

The Lost Symbol

(category: fantasy)
book 3 starring Robert Langdon by

Dan Brown

published by Transworld / Random House in 2009
Nick read a new book, in December 2009

Nick's rating: 7 out of 10

Nick's opinion:

A rip roaring yarn... Plenty of action, solid conspiracy theory material, good guys under serious threat but always escaping by the skin of their teeth. Stupid, I thought at the start. Then I thought again: Place it in a strange city on a strange planet -- rather than Washington, Earth -- and it's standard fantasy. Mysterious cabals, ancient secrets, human but inhuman villain. With that view -- it's a lot of fun. Some small points of very dodgy science but the symbology is fun. So many "significant" numbers! Whole sets of things built to match the most mystical number ever -- then more things built to match a different mystical number... The story flows well but I did get annoyed at the regular use of, "I've finally discovered the answer... and I'll tell you what it is after a chapter or two of heightened tension!"

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