If any of you could put in a word for me I'd love to be a freemason. Freemasonry opens doors.
After 6 years and 2 mediocre films to tide us over, the follow up to Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code hits stores tomorrow. The Lost Symbol follows protagonist Robert Langdon on another epic, mysterious adventure, this time in our nation’s capital. After discovering his friend’s severed hand in the Capitol building, Langdon is off tracing down clues once again, and his investigation points him toward the Freemasons. The man responsible for the amputation is a self-castrated man seeking a legendary Masonic pyramid, and the Los Angeles Times calls him “a villain as unique, zealous and eerie as the albino monk Silas in Code.”
Early reviewers concede that Brown’s writing style and dialogue hasn’t become any more sophisticated, but they don’t mind – the beauty is in the plot and the complex puzzles Brown creates, which are as addictive as ever. Right now the question seems to be if Freemasonry will be able to draw the same level of attention as the puzzles surrounding Christ and the Catholic church did in Brown’s past books. The read will be just as fun, but it may not leave the same lingering questions.
“[Brown is] bringing sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead.” – Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Brown’s narrative moves rapidly, except for those clunky moments when people sound like encyclopedias.” – Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times
“Freemasonry doesn’t have the dense web of associations that Catholicism has for many people — and Washington lacks the visual splendor of those ancient European cities, which Brown described so vividly in his last two books.” – Laurie Muchnick, Bloomberg.com
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