I started Reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown because I was really impressed with his last novel The Da Vinci Code.  After reading just a few chapters in the book it suddenly hit me that this all sounded very familiar.  The reason it sounded familiar was the book seem to be following the same storyline of The Da Vinci Code only the names were changed and what was going on and changed.  I thought at this point he had just taken the new book and just change the cast of characters so his readers would feel comfortable with the book.  This is not what I want to see in a book and as I read a bit further I realized that that maybe was a harsh comment, on my part.  In actuality, it turned into a very good read and for the next three hundred pages At times I found this book to be very exciting.

But then something else started bothering me as the clues, I was getting in the book allowed me to figure out who the bad guy was, and what was going on before I should have been able to figure it all out.  I think that anybody who has read very many books could have done the same thing.  I don't think my observation was especially special in any way.  This is quite a letdown for me and it bothered me clear throughout the book is the cast of characters started piecing things together, that was quite quite obvious to the reader, a long time ago.  I kept wanting to yell out, what's the matter with you guys, can't you see what's going on.

Anyway, towards the end of the book things really got exciting.  I couldn't believe what I was reading and it was quite shocking.  But then that all changed and before long the book had reached the end but I still had a lot of pages to go so I wondered what's way to happen now.  So, as I kept reading the final pages of this book and got to the very end, I found the book was just a great big let down for me.   The final ending was probably one of the worst of any book that I've ever read and I walked away wondering why the hell did I read this book.  I don't know if I'll read another Dan Brown book ever again.