Robert Langdon, everybody's favorite symbologist (isn't the field actually called 'hermeneutics?') is called to DC to serve as a last minute substitute speaker at some event being held in the Capitol building. It's The Da Vinci Code set in Washington D.C. There is the enormous body count, caused by a sociopathic serial murderer who for some reason never quite gets around to killing the main characters, although the secondary and lower characters have about a 10% survival rate. There are the fake etymologies-Amen at the end of a prayer is supposed to derive from the name of the Egyptian god Amun-everything is connected to everything else! There is the beautiful woman companion with absolutely no sexual attraction whatsoever. There is the ominous secret society, this time the Freemasons. There are the lectures about the 'real meaning' of architecture, secret societies, language. There is the bad guy who turns out not to be so bad. There is the physical freak with an inexplicable obsession-this one is a 'roid-fueled bald guy with a full body Nair addiction, who has tattooed every inch of his body, except for the very top of his head. The excessive use of italics for emphasis-when you can't make the point by repeating it, do it again in italics in its own paragraph.

There are the ridiculously short chapters. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations–all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.What is there to say about this book other than it is exactly what you would expect from a Dan Brown Novel(TM). When Langdon’s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon–a prominent Mason and philanthropist–is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him.

Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation… one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. A disturbing object–artfully encoded with five symbols–is discovered in the Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.Īs the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling–a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths… all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world’s most popular thriller writer.

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