The Lost Symbol

The book is up there with the best of slightly trashy thrillers but has a great deal more history and information than your usual page-turner.



Including a look back to the start of America, the motivations of the "founding fathers" and the religious undercurrents running through modern day Washington, this book is tense, exciting and interesting in equal measure. While not anything like an academic text, this should contain enough backstory and real-life detail to keep brainy types listening while packed with enough action to keep the casual listener engaged.



Nicely narrated by Paul Michael - adding personality and depth to the characters and leading you along this epic 18 hour adventure. Highly recommended.

Enjoyable romp through Washington, but felt to me very much like the Da Vinci Code all over again, except in DC.

Really let down with this one. It seems Dan Brown has sold out to commercial pressure by just delivering an overlong and particularly bland effort. Very little substance and research in the tech pieces make the plot barely credible. He does manage to hold on to your attention with the snippets of information and unknown facts he is renowned for in previous novels, which in my eyes is the books only saving grace. It pains me to say I am doubtful if I will go for the next book....if indeed he actually continues with this character.

Okay, but not great. Non-taxing, but the plot goes a bit weird toward the end and I did start to get bored.

having read angels and demons, da vinci code and digital fortress, i pretty much knew what to expect. it delivered, nothing more to say really. a really good read with some good narration. loved it and looking forward to the movie in 2012.

I can genuinely say that I found this book enjoyable and entertaining and found the narration by Paul Michael, enhanced the experience. Having said that, whilst many of the details are interesting, I would agree with some other reviewers that this book could have come to an end much sooner and actually been better as I think it was rather drawn out...

Not only is this a fabulously written fiction, that keeps you listening from beginning to end with its twists and turns. You may even feel more enlightened for the experience.

This is the first Dan Brown book I have listened to, it is likely to be the last as well. I found it tedious and really a very short story padded out to provide quantity over quality. I bought it because I was going on a long journey and thought it might help to pass the time, instead it sent me into a bored stupor!

I bought the book when it first came out in hardback and found I was tired of all the cliched Brown writing about religion, symbols and science. Then I downloaded the audiobook and found myself reinvigorated with the story. I liked the narration and the story became quite gripping. The ending sadly comes way too early and the final chapters seem to be just plenaries on god and man. Nevertheless, a good book to listen to.

Dan Brown is a very clever man, but is now getting a bit boring. If I was reading the book rather than listening to the book, I don't think I would of finished it. It wasn't as fast paced as Angels and Demons or the Da Vinci Code and unfortuantely got a bit bored towards the end and couldn't wait for it to finish so I could download another book.