The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

It has been ages since I last read a "storybook". The last was "Five Persons you meet in Heaven"by Mitch Albom and that was in May 2009. have read all the 4 previous Dan Brown books. Was putting this book for a while as I hope this was not a similar book as Da Vinci Code.

I am glad that this story was as intridging as the Da Vinci Code. The story was full of logical explanations (to me) with twists and turns along the way. That is the no. 1 plus point about Dan Brown because most fiction books do have quite a bit of illogical plots.

Now about the negative stuff in this book. Firstly, I do not understand why must there be a woman with the hero in all his books. Does Robert Langdon need a sidekick? Secondly, I do not like the way the story unfolds itself in the end. Lastly, I thought it was a bit illogical, though not completely, that the villian was a one-man show. It seemed like this villian was able to beat all the CIA, professors, police etc.

Anyway, this nearly 700 pages long book took me >2 weeks and with my workload, I felt it was quite an accomplishment for me to even finished the book. Overall, it was a very good read and the storyline was nearly as good as Da Vinci Code.