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In fact, if your brain happens to be around when you start to read The Lost Symbol, go ahead and tell it to get lost - you won’t be needing it. Like its predecessors, The Lost Symbol is entirely improbable, frequently silly, and utterly perfect for those days when your brain has taken a day off.
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You can bet I’ll read Brown’s next golden egg, because despite his many flaws, the man can tell a compelling story. That’s not to say reading The Lost Symbol wasn’t a good time - it was. The Lost Symbol, like Brown’s previous books, hurts if pondered too deeply. Smart, rich, and thin-and I’m supposed to believe God is good?” Wait, what?
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Katherine’s so striking that when she first meets Trish, her new assistant, Trish “immediately two feet tall.
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I mean, really.) Katherine Solomon, his love interest du jour, is attractive, having been “blessed with the resilient Mediterranean skin of her ancestry,” and intelligent. (Speaking of which, doesn’t he realize this is the third time he’s running around town decoding symbols? Why does he so adamantly refuse to believe these symbols mean anything important? Shut up already and symbologize, or whatever it is you do. Robert Langdon is toned and unfailingly skeptical. Don’t expect to find any life-like characters here these characters are flat as cardboard, with only the thinnest of motivations. The Lost Symbol also suffers from poor characterization, in addition to poor writing.
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In the background, the dual Pratt & Whitney engines hummed evenly.” Boy, Langdon’s a smart one, isn’t he? I always get my Pratt & Whitneys confused with Garrett TFE731-2-2Bs, but then again, I’m no symbologist.) He was sitting all alone in the enormous cabin of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet as it bounced its way through turbulence. (Consider this gem: “Robert Langdon jolted upright in his soft leather seat, startling out of the semiconscious daydream. Brown doesn’t stop there, though: he also loves to throw in lots of detail to illustrate the depths of his research. Brown loves hackneyed phrases: eyes are constantly locking for one terrifying second, tense smiles are being forced - you get the picture. Bottoms up!īrown doesn’t limit himself to just randomly italicizing or trailing off … he’s craptacular in other ways, too. Drink every time you find random italics, the ellipsis, or a reference to the protagonist’s “toned physique,” and you’ll be out cold before you know it. One positive aspect of Dan Brown’s plundering prose is the quickness with which it becomes a drinking game. Words are often italicized to emphasize points that don’t need emphasizing, and the ellipsis is used with staggering frequency … often for no reason … at all. To say the writing is mediocre is an understatement. Thankfully, people don’t read Dan Brown because of his writing style if they did, he’d never sell another page. If you’re looking for good prose, deep characterization, and a sense of realism, you’re going to have to look elsewhere. Unfortunately, one of these things is also a spoiler - a shame, since together we could laugh and laugh and laugh about it. Time, not surprisingly, is of the essence Langdon must solve the mystery before several really bad things happen. This time, renowned symbologist Robert Langdon scurries around Washington D.C. It doesn’t seem to matter that each egg is pretty much identical, either Brown just plunks it down in a new city, inserts a different secret society, slaps a new name on it, and voila! Another golden bestseller is born. Boy, Dan Brown sure found the goose that lays golden eggs, huh? And, from the looks of it, he’s raping that poor thing for all its worth.