The Lost Symbol-Book Review
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a very good book although it is not the best of Dan Brown's novels. I have found that I am attracted to his work because of all of the intriguing facts that are given about a myriad of different topics. Herein these facts include such of Washington D.C., alchemy, art, history, and much more. I appreciate all of the time and effort that Brown puts into researching these topics. The story and plot of this novel seemed a bit predictable to me. I was a normal Dan Brown novel. Yes it was good, but it wasn't anything really new. The only thing that seemed new to me was that there were more characters, many of only small or no real importance, that were crammed into the plot. Time was spent on their backgrounds and they were only in the book for a few chapters. Having so many characters seemed like a bit of a cop-out in that so many people did so many different things that it was simply a convenient way to form a connecti...