people are loving it,i mean its Dan brown!
he is the guy..who told the world that Jesus had a girlfriend!..what more can you expect?
but does the lost symbol deserve the praise that is being showered upon it?
Lets start with the book:
Its the same Dan brown stuff, with parallel stories, changing tracks, flashbacks, extensive descriptions of symbols or even people in this book.
Robert Langdon is again back with memories of his Harvard lectures, cheeky lines etc. not much of a character change for a person who found out the greatest cover up on earth?
Sophie doesn’t come in nor does vittoria (I hoped at least he would mention them) we have a new girl on the block, Katherine, she's hot too! .
Then there is peter Solomon, malakh(dangerous) and many other characters come up from time to time. (Again typical Dan brown)
The amazing thing is that Robert Langdon can jump from helicopters, chase mental criminals, stop secret societies and yet he is afraid of small places? Strange!
The book is based only in Washington D.C, which was disappointment for me, seeing that the other books had so much travel in them.
And when we are talking Dan brown, we can’t ignore hi-tech gadgets can we? This book has loads of them, many which I liked a lot!
the story in sense of emotional content or drama is pretty good, especially the twist in the end, I loved that part but after that the book fails your expectations! what I mean is that when Da Vinci code came out and I read it, I was blown away by the content and the mind-blowing revelation, but this book does not do anything of that sort!
While it does talk about secret societies and legends and mystic secrets, all of them well sound just like stories and there is no gripping excitement about them, the revelation in the end here in the lost symbol is a real low, I didn’t expect that from Dan brown!
The book is like an encyclopedia for freemasonry (anyone will tell you that). The amount of information about freemasonry and its rituals is mind-boggling! how on earth did he know about the rituals that were secrets for almost 500 years?
All the legends and stuff too are impressive but they all are unfinished! he doesn’t explain everything(which is not possible too, in a book, he has to maintain the pace) but still, more could have been told and seeing that he knows so much, he of course would have known those parts too.
The book's structure is as if Dan was made to delete some portions and had to fill them with other stories or information, especially the end where its almost like a poem, filled with personifications and metaphors as if he is trying to conceal something in the book itself but yet wants you to decipher it! this really gets you thinking "is Dan telling us something?" he didn’t want others to understand? Who knows? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t!
he also talks extensively about God v/s Man topic which he did in angels and demons, and it is actually quite a read provided that you not stay on one side of the story and accept both the facts, which is again what crops up in this book, unbiased analysis which is good to a certain extent and is ok!.
There are lines in the book that you just have to love; my favorite is about Robert being in a cult!
The end of the book is more like a personality development course (read the book and you will know why!), Dan browns writing has also improved to say the least, but there are some parts where you jus feel like turning the pages and finish the book! :(
But the pace of the book is what Dan brown excels in! Its non-stop, full of adventures, action, emotion all in one package.
And that is what people have loved about it, that is the “only” thing people have loved and not the secrets.
Over all how is the lost symbol? Its a damn good read but only a casual read and nothing from it can excite your brain cells, like what Da Vinci code did, atleast for me.
The lost symbol hides more secrets than it reveals! More in the next post, and please leave some comments below!
