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Dan Brown's 'Lost Symbol' - trust me do not read
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It was just an OK book for me.



Maybe I liked it only because at the time my hubby and I were in deep discussion with a friend who recently found out that part of his family is of Jewish decent. He and his immediate family began the process of converting from pretty devout Christianity (quoting from & carrying a bible with them everywhere) to Judaism. During the process he began his own little fact-finding mission (online) on Christianity, Masonic symbolism & practices and much more.
Although I didn't take Brown's book as serious text for study, it did give me ideas for discussion. Face it, Dan Brown doesn't write for the intellectual scholars and so if you're not into his religion-inspired fluff you shouldn't read his books...as I doubt they will ever be any different.




(Off topic Question: Wasn't there a journalist/civilian person released from captivity in Afghanistan/Pakistan who had one book to read Brown's "Digital Fortress", and he read it like eight times? Anyone remember who I'm thinking of? Maybe it was the NY Times journalist?)

I read Angels and Demons and really liked it, and I read the Davinci Code and really didn't. It was pretty much the same story, except less full-circle than A&D. From his pattern of going from bad to worse, I didn't really even thing to bother with this new one.



However in both of later books, author slept off in the end and scribbled something in his sleeep..
Still i will go for 'Deception point'
i appreciate him as i have learnt a lot about religions
but i also have a right to criticise Dan



Boredom is fatal for a thriller.

Seriously its hard on eyes. Too much distraction in the book,worthless passages to fill up the pages.
I can understand Author bigging up things to make a simple story elegant/sensational/mysterious but this guy Dan filled up so much unnecessary crap.
i can ofcourse find the reason why he wrote any particular passage but what a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................