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The Lost Symbol of Dan Brown
I read all the books of Dan Brown, and although I'm not a big fan, I like his great stories and the idea that there might be some vast conspiracy or esoteric there that few people know. Dan Brown writes could use some work, and it is not in the craft of great literature, but the content of his stories were usually made for this, and his latest novel, The Lost Symbol, is no exception. This is the third book to follow Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist who has already shown in Angels & Demons: A Novel (Robert Langdon), and The Da Vinci Code .
The Lost Symbol is very similar to his previous books, as it has the same plot formula, structure, and theme, but this time it held in Washington, DC, and involves the Freemasons instead of the Templars. As in The Da Vinci Code, Langdon is called to Washington at the request of a friend, than to find fault, and spends the rest of the work throughout the city hunting clues and try to defeat a new villain who is apparently as intelligent him.
As mentioned above, the formula of The Lost Symbol is almost exactly the same thing. After only a few chapters in the book, I begun to draw comparisons to the immediate National Treasure (Widescreen Edition) And I could see some players making the request if it was not a few exceptions: Langdon is nicer than Ben Gates, the mysteries are much more involved and well documented, and there is much more action and suspense. This time, rather than trying to ignore some holes rather large field, as contained in the Da Vinci Code, you must suspend your disbelief as Harvard professor is physically capable of such calls nearby. It reads almost like a novel by Ian Fleming's book about a teacher mid-50s trying to solve a scavenger hunt-old centuries. It costs much because many books of this kind can get weighed down by the scientific or historical bore you to death.
This does not mean that The Lost Symbol does not have its faults. The first is especially writing. If it has certainly improved since the Da Vinci Code, it seems still quite jarring, and not up with someone who is one of the best-selling authors in the past twenty years. Even if fiction, some of the actions of the characters I really wonder if Brown has had a lot of human contact in writing the book. There are other problems that repeated in the book, but I'm not going to put that fear can cause mentioning future readers to get their attention constantly drawn to them. On the whole However, writing is not terrible and the plot is exciting enough that I can ignore it. Another theme that Brown plays with the concept of "mind over matter." It provides a lot of research on the subject (in some chapters too), but I still found a little too out there, and you wish he had chosen a different angle.
I think this book will appeal not only to fans of Dan Brown, but for the fans of Douglas Preston and Lee Child (Langdon is almost a clone of the character Agent Pendergast), James Rollins, Michael Crichton (there are certainly many influences here as far as research goes into a book), and with this book, Clive Cussler (the action is nothing comparable to Dirk Pitt see).
If I were grading, I would put The Lost Symbol below Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and above. Although I do not think it's worth five stars, it was certainly a reading pleasant enough to satisfy me until the next book comes out (provided you do not wait as long as he did for it).
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