The Purple Prose Book Club will be deciphering Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol.
We turn the pages onto the last stage of our conversation here with pages 399-509 (chapter’s 109-Epilogue). I had been hoping that it was a slow boil but would be overflowing at the end…and was I ever disappointed!
As page after page of revelation kept coming and the promised explosive information that would forever change humanity was set to blow our minds away I was ready for some ingenious insights with profound implications.
…but it was the same old thing…humans are gods! Humans are gods?…How completely preposterous and ridiculous…the story tells us we are either to stupid or forgetful to realize that we are gods…the last time I heard God is omniscient (He knows absolutely everything perfectly always)…therefore if we are God or gods then we would not forget it!
Dan Brown promises a lot and delivers little in this book. Flat characters (Robert Langdon shows little or no growth as a character), a rather boring story line that is just plain silly and unintelligent in its ending…The continual melodrama about shocking revelations to come were never fulfilled…dull-o-rama!
I enjoyed the earlier Robert Landon books but they seem to be getting worse instead of better…
Is Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol a good book, bad book…or even Purplish book? Well I’m not here to sell you books so save your money and leave this one on the shelf… The Lost Symbol is a bad book!
Thank me for saving you the time and money….
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The Lost Symbol is ingeniuosly bad. Amazingly unoriginal. I have been fighting for 24 days now to finish it. I still haven't made it past page 300.
I recognized Dan Brown as a bad writer from the start. But I didn't know quite HOW bad until I saw this book. He made a carbon copy of the Da Vinci Code. Unbelievable. He hasn't improved as a writer in any way.
The Lost Symbol strikes me as creaky. The sentences seem silly and awkward. The events are impossible to swallow. And the characters practically do not exist at all.
I think Brown achieved success by ripping off other people's ideas. The Da Vinci Code is nothing BUT ripped off ideas.
The Lost Symbol has none of that. It's just bad writing without any ideas at all.
It makes sense to me. The best books are written fast. The Lost Symbol was not. It took six long years of cobbling together different scenes and information. A VERY awkward way to write a book. No sense of urgency.
Dan Brown comes off like someone trying to write like Michael Crichton. And he can't do it. He got lucky once. He probably never will again.
I think he's just one of those bad writers who succeeded by accident.
For every factual writer like Crichton, there's a thousand who can't get it right. Doesn't stop 'em from trying, though.
What a waste of my time. I hope to see less books like The Lost Symbol in the future. Total lack of creativity. I give it absolute zero.
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