The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown: Book Review and Plot

by Amy Judd | September 15, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown has already become the best selling adult book this year and it's only just come out.

But how does it measure up to its prequel The Da Vinci Code?

Once again Robert Langdon is the hero of this book, but this time his quest for answers to solve a puzzle is found in Washington DC. Langdon has to go to the Capitol to save Peter Solomon, his mentor sho has been kidnapped by someone called Mal'akh. Langdon luckily has an ancient Masonic artifact whose clues lead him on a treasure hunt for the answer to a secret that has been hidden for years by the Freemasons.

Many are saying that a secret about the Freemasons is not as exciting as one about Mary Magdalene and Jesus however.

Luckily, Langdon remains a terrific hero, a bookish intellectual who’s cool in a crisis and quick on his feet, like Ken Jennings with a shot of adrenaline. The codes are intriguing, the settings present often-seen locales in a fresh light, and Brown mostly manages to keep the pages turning — except when one of his know-it-all characters decides to brake the action for another superfluous, if occasionally interesting, historical digression. (Did you know there’s a carving of Darth Vader on the National Cathedral?)

However, there is about 50 pages of text after the climax of the book that some fans can't figure out why it belongs there.

Are you going to read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol?

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