It was a Dan Brown book - always entertaining, even though it's not one of his best... ( )

This suddenly showed up at the library after a very long wait so I stopped my other books midway and picked this one up!
I really enjoyed it. I really enjoy the main character Robert Langdon, and all his crazy adventures.
This story didn't quite pull me in like the others before it, but that may be timing and nothing wrong with the story. ( )

Not great literature but certainly a page-turner. The tone was a little too "preachy" for me, which is why I gave it 3 stars. But I loved all the "insider info" about the Masons and Washington, DC. I know I will look at the city differently the next time I am there.

I guessed early on that the location of the Lost Word was going to be the Washington Monument, but I never guessed that the tattooed man was Zach. I was suspicious of Sato for quite a while--she was an interesting character! ( )

Book 63 - Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol

Back to an earlier Brown/ Langdon novel for my next read. I have vague recollections of tackling this when it first came out in 2009. I remembered so little of it that here I am 10 years later trying again and you know what it is better than I remember. Still very silly but it also remains a page turner...

Set this time around the Smithsonian Institute and tackling Freemasonry it goes into the shadowy world of this secretive organisation and what some of their secret symbols actually mean....allegedly...lol

It is clear by this stage that Brown is running out of ideas...little wonder that Origin - the fifth in the series is such nonsense.

It has made me realise that I haven’t read the fourth one in the series...Inferno...one for later in the year I think. ( )

Not having read any of Dan Brown's previous books, nor having seen any of the movie adaptations, but fully aware of the slings and arrows directed at Brown's stories, I went into this one with very low expectations. When I finished, I was reminded, once again, that negative hype should not be taken with any less seasoning of salt than should effusive praise.

To be sure, this book is not without its faults - the energy level flags, in points, and Langdon's side of a dialog, at times, lapses into a recitation of an encyclopedia article. Overall, though, I found it a highly entertaining page turner. If the book has otherwise piqued your interest, but you are on the fence, considering whether or no to give it a go, I say, climb down onto the side of, "Read it." ( )