THE LOST SYMBOL BOOK REVIEW PLUS
In "The Da Vinci Code," it was Holy Grail expert Leigh Teabing here's it's Langdon himself, plus Colin Galloway, an ultra-liberal priest at the Washington National Cathedral who seems to have given up Jesus Christ for Ra. There's a talking head to explain all the underlying esoterica, too. Here she is Katherine Solomon, a scientist at the Smithsonian nstitution specializing in "noetics," a New Age branch of physics that draws on string theory and to try to prove that "mind over matter" is a scientific reality. There's the gorgeous but brainy female who becomes Langdon's partner-in-sleuthing. Who knew?Īs a thriller, "The Lost Symbol" is exciting, although readers of "The Da Vinci Code" will notice that some of the same stock characters and creaky plot devices pop up. In "The Lost Symbol," the Christian church is trying to suppress the fact apparently a tenet of Freemasonry that we all secretly worship the E gyptian sun-god Ra. He goes on and on about how all religions are actually the same religion, so why are religious people (that primarily means Christians) so intolerant? "The Da Vinci Code" preached that the Christian church has tried to suppress "the eternal feminine" personified by Jesus' supposed wife, Mary Magdalene. Brown's perennial protagonist, Harvard "symbology" professor Robert Langdon. The other book, within "The Lost Symbol," is a tedious sermon, usually coming from the mouth of Mr.
Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," except that it is set in Washington instead of Paris and Masons feature as the star secret society, instead of Opus Dei. Please also let me know if there’s a book you would like me to review or have a look at some of the others I have done.
If you enjoyed this review or have any thoughts/suggestions, please leave a comment below. Dan Brown's long-awaited "The Lost Symbol" is actually two books. The lost symbol is a book I would definitely recommend as always, this does not disappoint.