Read it or Weep

Same Plot, Different Location September 23, 2009

Don’t get me wrong, even though Dan Brown’s latest book The Lost Symbol is a familiar plot, it is still an entertaining read. This time symbologist Robert Langdon isn’t racing through the streets of Rome, Paris or London, but, our own nation’s capital instead.  This time he’s trying to solve the secrets of the Masons scattered throughout Washington, D.C. with a brilliant woman scientist, not a cute French police officer.  His nemesis isn’t a strange monk like Silas, but a just-as-creepy Mason named Mal’akh.

Similarities to The Da Vinci Code aside, I still enjoyed reading The Lost Symbol and I think you will, too, if you remember that it is a work of fiction meant to entertain.  Besides…how could you not like a book that has the quote, “Time is a river…and books are the boats”?

Maybe we just need to get Nicholas Cage to do the movie…It could be called National Treasure 3: The Lost Symbol.  No one questioned his jaunts through our capital to solve all those  puzzles and secrets.

~Evelyn