The Lost Symbol.

Author : Dan Brown
Release Year : 2009
No. of chapters : 131(what the?!)
Favorite Line :
"Robert?" Peter smiled and waved him in."I'd like a word."
Langdon managed a grin."Yes, I hear you lost one."


Finally finished Dan Brown's new thriller, which, as expected stars his favorite protagonist Robert Langdon, the symbologist from Harvard.

Dan Brown's style of writing has become unexpectedly similar, which made it quite easy to guess the flow of the story. Especially, the villain's character was the easiest. However, no matter how repetitive, the author's detailed descriptions reflect the huge amount of research which goes in every book that he has written till now. I wonder if it was only me, but The lost symbol had me laughing on many more occasions as compared to the other thrillers involving Langdon. One prominent and much welcomed difference was that the heroine and our 46 year old extremely fit, stunning and intelligent professor(with blue eyes :P) had almost negligent chances of any romance blooming between them. Was it because this time, Ms Katherine Solomon was too old for the fanciful man who was seen changing women in his earlier appearances? :P Just kidding. It just so happens that I am not quite a fan of Robert Langdon, even though his vast amount of knowledge is amazing. ^^' I really liked the other prominent characters in the story-- those being Peter Solomon and Inoue Sato.

The ending seemed quite a drag and it was a little tough for me to relate to the story there. However, I still have some of my favorite parts in the story. For eg, Langdon pondering over the history of 'neckties' and how they had originated-- it was quite fascinating; even li'l things can have such funny and ironic histories, lol :D. Another one of my favorites were Langdon's lectures to his students and how he feigned his expressions leading them on a roller-coaster ride to make them understand what he was trying to say. Did I just fail to notice all these in the previous books, or has Dan Brown improvised?? I have no idea.

All in all, it was worth a read, really informative, exciting(until I figured out what was going on) and totally not a waste of time. It cured my reader's block(yes, apparently, there is such a thing and I had it since the past year or so. >.>). I suppose I owe the author a thanks for that! :)