my Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol review (as posted on Amazon)

There must be a book in between The DaVinci Code and The Lost Symbol that features Robert Langdon being a casualty of some catastrophic event that makes him suddenly stupid. You're world renowned specialist in symbology and the like and it's hard for you to believe some not that far fetched Mason ideas (in the context of symbology) that are not really all that unbelievable AND you can barely figure out each puzzle that is presented to you?

How convenient of Dan Brown to not only write commercial breaks into the book, but to also put recaps every few pages of what happened the page before... just in case you didn't read it the first time...even though it was like a page and a half ago.

Dan Brown might as well have just gone ahead and called Bellamy Morgan Freedman.

Dan, you know that crazy mysterious obelisk... the one that you make seem so mystical to have here in the US when the origins are Egyptian... you DO know there's an ACTUAL Egyptian obelisk in Central Park right?

How many times does it take for the answer to be "right in front of you" before you figure out that it might be a good idea to look right in front of you?

And finally, the plot... thin and weak. The whole "Lost Word" concept... WEAK! Even if it was an actual word with actual mystical powers...