The Lost Symbol

Starting with excitement and thrill the novel is about symbols that is threatened to be revealed to the unworthy. Promising enigma as each chapter unfolds the finale is not so worthy of the entire adventure. Though pertaining to the central theme of philosophical revelations but it has lost the realistic touch. A happy ending was not what this novel deserved and thus it remains incomplete though the story completes. A note of mourn would have correctly resonated in the final pages but curiously Brown tried to philosophize rather than keeping the hope alive. Robert Langdon is more an audience in his new adventure that uses him as a pawn used by a madman for his quest of the absolute. CIA gets involved as do a scientist and certain particular Masons trying to save a nation and a brotherhood while all keeping a vow of non-cooperation amo

ng themselves. Unrealistic yet exciting the novel takes Langdon to a journey that will be remembered only for how close he came near death.  With some novel revelations the gripping adventure failed to make its mark as lengthy philosophical debates were incorrectly placed. Personal relations seemed lesser in more than one occasions, while science that was promised remained unexplained. Destruction galore as did coincidences foiling the evil at each step. Infact Langdon seemed only required for a single instance as several Masons proved to be more qualified symbologists. Thus the novel is a good adventure but clearly not one of the best.