I’ve done something I’ve never done before, I pre-ordered a book!

Book: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Link: The Lost Symbol

I hurried home from work, my package arrived on the release date from Amazon, and began reading Dan Brown’s third book in his Robert Langdon’s series.
I enjoyed it. It was a fun read, and like expected it was action packed. I didn’t like the last 50 pages. The story for all intent and purposes ends with 50 pages to spare. He then proceeds to wrap up a few loose ends but it takes about 40 pages too long.

The story was good, it took a few twists and turns, and if you’re like me, you may be able to guess a few ahead of time.

It probably ranks third compared to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.

I did enjoy that the book had me googling several references in the book to buildings in Washington, DC and art work. I kept checking google’s rank to see if others were doing it on release day, didn’t see anyone else.

In a final note, I love the research Dan Brown completes in his books, all the computer related sections were fairly on mark (a short section with a hacker). I like when authors do not embellish computer interaction in their novels.