The Lost Symbol Review
filed in Books on May.27, 2010
It is the new 2009 novel by Dan Brown, which takes places in Washington D.C. and it is the continuation of The Da Vinci Code novel. The symbologist Robert Langdon is the main character one more time.
I read Angels & Demons last year after watching the movie, because I knew the book would be much better than the movie. Boyfriend gave me the book as an anniversary present. I used to read the book in my free time at work when there were not that many files to work with and time was going slow.Last January while travelling to the UK, I bought The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I was looking for a book to read during the eleven hours the airplane was scheduled to take from Mexico City to London, UK. However, I didn’t read the book in the airplane, instances I fall at sleep because we were departing at 9:00 pm. I guess, after waiting for eight hours in the Mexico City airport I was tired. I only read a few pages at the beginning, but in March, I started reading the book for real and after three weeks, I finished. Dan Browns usually goes slow at the beginning of his book and builds up, and by the middle of the book, you can’t stop reading.
I like the way Dan Brown mixed reality with fantasy and makes you wonder. You are not sure what it’s true and what it’s only exaggeration. Most people will not take the time to figure that out by reading about those subjects Dan Brown mentioned in his books and just assume them fiction. Many other books explain the true mentioned in the Lost Symbol. For Instance, the book I’m reading (The Noetic Universe) explains the true behind the area of Noetic Science, which is a science I have never heard about before.
The Lost Symbol follows the same structured of the other two books where Robert Langdon is the main Character. Everything takes places in less than 24 hours.
The book was published on September 15, 2009. Here in Panama was available by the end of November but I didn’t want a Spanish copy so I wait until I could buy an English copy.
I think The Lost Symbol is better than Angels & Demons, I haven’t read The Da Vinci Code so I can’t make the comparison. For me The Lost Symbol moves rapidly at the end and a little slows at the beginning, there a few Chapters that seem pointless. Nevertheless, the book is still a page-turner.
Columbia Pictures will make the film for release in 2012, which was confirmed on February 2010. I hope Tom Hanks does the role as Robert Langdon though.
