I just finished reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I bought the book cause I read his other ones: The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. I was pretty excited about it since those other books were really interesting and mind boggling BUT this one was a major fail. Okay, this book is HUGE; 509 pages of words; ramblings, really... sometimes I just had to skim over the pages cause I was not into it. Needless to say, I finished it in 2 days. Most of the crap was so predictable or maybe I just knew what to expect cause of the other books. To not totally spoil it, the book is basically about Freemasonry and some secret the brotherhood has hidden in Washington, D.C. It's interesting but meh..
Honestly, I was reading the book as a way of procrastinating from studying from my finals but towards the end of the book, I just wanted to get it over with; I actually preferred to study for my finals, haha. It wasn't HORRIBLE but it's nothing compared to the two other ones I've read. I'd give it a 2.282742189/5 stars.
But anyway- good luck to everyone on finals and don't get absorbed into some mediocre books as I did cause you'll end up having to break night the day before your first final as I am currently doing. word.
I read a review of it and it said something similar, it is a shame because even though his other books are not literary masterpieces, they were very engrossing.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good luck on your finals too! I'll save my reading for afterwards.
i haven't read any of his books but i did see the da vinci code movie. have you seen the movies? do they do the books justice or are the books way better than the movie?
ReplyDeletei downloaded this book as an audiobook and listened to it on the train and in boring classes. it was good and kept me occupied. ive read all of his book and i feel that you can always guess the ending... as in there is some sort of twist. this one was ok but i think people didnt like it as much because it is similar though different from his other books, at least in my opinion. speaking of masons. i took a class tour of the grand masonic lodge of new york on tuesday with my real estate class. its right on 23rd and 6th ave. it was beautiful inside. they had all these different rooms where they hold meetings for different lodges and the architecture and masonry and paintings and everything else were amazing. they have free tours on wednesday i think.
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