Friday, December 10, 2010

Personal Post - Book: The Lost Symbol

Another Dan Brown book that you can't put down.  Or at least I couldn't, even when I knew I had to read other books for class and what not, but Brown has the ability to hook you in every single chapter.  Brown's main character for the third time, Robert Langdon battles the forces of evil using clues, solving puzzles, and running from authorities that are good, but can also be bad and you never really what's going to happen.  Which is why I find his work very enjoyable and fun to read.  This time the action takes place in our nation's capital, but as usual, all of it happens in one night.  Which again why I find his reads so much fun, at the end of every chapter there is a hook that forces you to read the next, and next, and so on.  In my opinion as a average reader I find Brown's work very entertaining, uses a lot imagery, so much so that it's hard not to imagine what he's writing.  All the action plays our right in your mind as though it were a movie script you were reading.  I also like it because I am a staunch liberal who deeply believes in the separation between church and state.  Without getting too deep for a class, he speaks of God as something so omnipresent that God doesn't need a religion to exist.  I agree with this notion, too often I find that people are so blinded by religious dogma that they can't see the forest from the trees.

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