Alright alright, I’m finally getting around to telling you my review of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I reminded myself, aren’t you proud?
Anyway, the book was kind of good, kind of well…I don’t know, it was….yeah….hmmm. Okay yes I am being very indecisive, but if you read this book, you will have the same kind of reaction. I would probably recommend reading it anyway, if you like Dan Brown, just to say you have.
Dan Brown is a very talented writer. Either this guy is really knowledgeable, extremely good at research, or one of the best bullshitters in the world (along with someone who’s name starts with a Ch and end with an erri).
So if you haven’t read it, and don’t want to know, don’t continue to read. The book focuses around the main character, as always, Robert Langdon. The book involves, as always (well almost always, not as much in Angels and Demons but whatever) one of Robert’s friends/colleague/someone he knows needing help or being in trouble. It always involves a beautiful strong woman who helps him along the way. This one is set in D.C. (as any idiot with a pair of eyes can see as it’s on the cover) so it’s slightly more interesting because you know the actual sites, and you have seen what he is talking about. This one talks about the Freemasons (didn’t Angels and Demons a little too? I can’t remember, it was so long ago). I once had a really creepy co-manager that was a mason; he used to carry around this little book with words in code. Okay, book, right. So the Freemasons supposedly protect this long lost secret. The book involves this pyramid and things hidden under the capitol building. It also involves, as always, a crazy person with a desire to rule the world, kill lots of people, etc. etc. Instead of anti-matter, or the Virgin Mary, this one talks about Noetic science. This science being that your consciousness and thoughts actually contain matter. If one thinks about the meaning of that, you can see what is being claimed here. Semi interesting, but I think even the people that study this science don’t think there are any cold hard facts. In this book though, the leading lady does.
The book is of course – since it’s Dan Brown – a page turner. There are a lot of twists and turns and unanswered questions (it kind of reminds me of Lost, just less annoying). Only problem is, you’ve already read the book. Twice. Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. He has this little formula, and he plugs in the information, and out comes a book. Slightly different, but still the same. So, I say it’s, eh.
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