The Lost Symbol by Dan BrownI'm all for a good cliff hanger, but someone needs to tell Dan Brown that putting one at the end of every freakin' chapter is a tad much. Seriously, could we have a chapter that *doesn't* end with a character finding out some earth-shattering tidbit of information that, of course, Dan Brown is going to withhold from the reader until the next chapter involving that character? Guess what, Dan? We've already bought the book, or borrowed it or whatever. The bottom line is we're reading the damned thing. Why torture us with "tune in next chapter. . ."?
I can't recall if this was a problem with the previous Dan Brown novels I read. At any rate, it wasn't quite as glaring. Or maybe it was because I was more interested in the plots of those. ***SPOILER ALERT*** This book sets us up with the idea that our forefathers were possessed of a great secret. Unfortunately it sounds a lot like this secret is going to be The Secret (tm). You know, that ground-breaking revelation that the universe bends to the well attuned mind and to have whatever you want you only have to will it into being. (Gag.) How exciting! The great mystery of the centuries didn't need to be hidden somewhere in the US Capitol by the Masons. You can find it in any of a half dozen Franklin Covey publications, which will probably be about as compelling as this novel.
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