Review: “The Lost Symbol”
In the spirit of full disclosure, let me tell you all that not only do I come from a family of Masons, I was a Job’s Daughter and my daughter is currently one. I am a member of both the Eastern Star and the Daughters of the Nile. My husband is a Mason.
I’m used to people thinking my family is involved with a cult. I grew up with it.
Having said all that, I read Dan Brown’s latest with the eye of a skeptic. Truly, I expected to dislike the book. Don’t get me wrong! Having read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, I knew this would be a quick read and highly entertaining. I wasn’t disappointed.
The Lost Symbolwas a quick read and it was highly entertaining. There were also some fantastic quotes. (I loved Professor Langdon telling his class about the cult he was a member of. One that meets on the day of the sun god Ra, where people kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic blood and flesh. When his students became shocked, Langdon invited them to attend Mass the following Sunday and partake in Holy Communion.)
While the idea behind the book was interesting, please remember it’s fiction.
About the book, it was good. I liked the story. Fast-paced and action filled, there were not many dull spots in the story. The premise used to get Langdon to Washington, D.C., however, I had some problems with but, as I said before, this is fiction and I’m willing to suspend a bit of disbelief in the name of a good book. The chapters in this one are short, which I liked because I often have to carve out my reading time. It’s much easier for me to stop at the end of a chapter, and I can do it more often when the chapters are only a few pages long. I realize that’s a personal preference, but it does seem to make it easier for me to zip through novels.
If The Lost Symbol follows Mr. Brown’s other novels, I expect there will be a movie in the future. I look forward to that, since I think it will be very interesting.
Heck, it might even raise interest in the various Masonic orders and that can only help the world as we know it!
Blessings!
Nichole