“With a first printing of five million copies, The Lost Symbol is off to a super-hyped start. Situated in Washington, DC with multiple mentions of National Cathedral, you’ll at least need a good synopsis to talk it over with your friends. Here in a nutshell is the “perils of Pauline” plot replete with a super-sized tattooed monk as the villain, Malakh. Robert Langdon, the symbologist hero of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, is lured to Washington, D.C., where he believes he is to give a speech. Instead, he finds that an old friend has been abducted. Only Langdon can unlock the hidden mysteries that can save his friend’s life. Brown combines Freemasons, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Albrecht Durer, and various other ingredients to create a story that could be mishmash but never quite loses cohesiveness. This author knows how to put together an intriguing and emotionally involving, story: he keeps the reader guessing with his riddles and puzzles, and moving through the story in a cantering, orderly fashion. Without the usual violence that characterizes so many other titles in this genre, Brown’s book is a definite hit for young adult book clubs too.
Compiled from various reviews by K. Craver 10/2009”
NCSLibrary wrote this review Thursday, October 8 2009.
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