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sidekick_sammy 's review for:
The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
Overall, I consider this good enough for a one-time read, but it does not compare to its predecessors.
At first I thought it was because the villain was uninteresting, but when I stepped back and thought about him critically, a guy tattooing every inch of himself with symbolic tattoos was by no means uninteresting. I realized about 3/4 of the way through it was likely because the driving force behind the whole plot was just too abstract for me to give a damn as to whether Langdon stopped the bad guy or not. And then to reinforce that realization, the post-climax explanation dragged on for a painful 63 pages when 10-20 would have sufficed. Don't regret reading this book, but will likely be adding it to the donation box.
At first I thought it was because the villain was uninteresting, but when I stepped back and thought about him critically, a guy tattooing every inch of himself with symbolic tattoos was by no means uninteresting. I realized about 3/4 of the way through it was likely because the driving force behind the whole plot was just too abstract for me to give a damn as to whether Langdon stopped the bad guy or not. And then to reinforce that realization, the post-climax explanation dragged on for a painful 63 pages when 10-20 would have sufficed. Don't regret reading this book, but will likely be adding it to the donation box.