The Lost Symbol is the latest offering from Dan Brown, which I picked up cos my brother lent me the hardcover book. As hefty as the book is, the chapters are split into bite-sized morsels of 4-5 pages on average, which makes for easy reading.
I pondered whether my first post of 2010 should kick off with Dan Brown. I've read a lot more since I was first genuinely wowed by the Da Vinci Code years ago, and being exposed to an array of good writing, perhaps I feel that Dan Brown should be relegated to Christopher Pike - "just an early phase of my reading journey"
But I have to admit, he has a knack for writing an exciting thriller. He seems to write these stories like an action movie, and like any exciting action movie, you can't just turn it off when stuff is blowing up and the bad guy is going to kill the hot chick can you?
This time around though, the controversial facts and history bit, Brown's forte, was fairly boring. I found my eyes glazing over some paras as the characters turned into scientific/symbological/mystical encyclopedias.
Enjoyed it while the excitement lasted.
6.5 out of 10 mystical symbols.
