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The Lost Symbol..... really got lost

<Precautionary Caution: After reading this book I have got a LOST MY MIND SYNDROME, kindly be patient with my most bizzare posting of till date>

Last week had a trip to Delhi , one of the most memorable trip till date.
A day before from Delhi trip I got Dan Brown 's latest release "The Lost Symbol" in audio as well as textual format. Lost Symbol was my only literary support throughout the tour as I had nothing else. It's story is based on yet another secret society , this time one from America named Freemasonry. Same style -same plot- same suspense ...same same same, it can really can make you sick. Once again whenever Dan Brown want to tell you that something exciting gonna happen
the lines are italicized where more adept thriller writers generally prefer to use words .

Today in morning I read in
MTV tickr that this book created history as 1 million copies of it were sold on the first day of it release but nobody knows the figure how much copies were returned on next day.
Like the Angels and Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code(2003), The Lost Symbol takes you through mind blending puzzles, painting analysis and reveals hidden histories so that Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, could discover a Masonic treasure despite special squads are chasing him and a pyschotic killer who has kidnapped his dear friend and mentor.There is one thing that still is unresolved.

When will this Professor gonna rest?

Everyone can imagine a 46-year-old Harvard Professor's delivering lectures to students to appreciate hidden patterns and meanings present in the world around them but he also is the one who survived an antimatter explosion at Vatican and a Paris manhunt and uncovered the truth about the Holy Grail.
Just not an average Professor.

I finished the book at the time when India got eliminated out of champions trophy. I wanted Robert Langdon now to come India and find out
"
The Lost Form" of Indian cricket team. In India Robert Langdon can team up with with our own Chacha Chaudhary to solve mysteries and also for any calculative and analysis purpose they will not need a computer also , reason I think you better know. Also Langdon can investigate what's the reason behind Ashutosh Gowarikar's lengthy movie style, why can't he wrap up the things in less than 3 hours. Also another thing Langdon can investigate if there is really 12 rashies or they have end up showing round about more than two dozen rashies in What's your Rashee?

I think Dan Brown really is a kinda person who can write anything that looks ordinary may be one day he may write some book regarding a secret society that uses facebook or twitter or blogger.com as their medium of secret conversation or gathering.

Once again Brown do not attempted to create something fresh or new characterization, no big surprises in plot trajectory. Furthermore, so famous twists are not nearly as tantalizing as were in his previous works.There are several points where you feel Brown wants to persuade you to tell that his book is highly intellectual and profound , which is clearly not.

It's disappointing and over long . I want my money back. End of review

5 comments:

Amul Badjatya (Jain) said...
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Amul Badjatya (Jain) said...

havnt seen much of 'blunt' pawan in days so
good to see blatant postmortem of the book i haven't read.... but trusting pawan's objectivity... i'll better see it through when the movie is in the offing :),now is not the time...
the title of the post is ingenious,hope to see more of such posts which made me avoid a book that may well have ruined a day or two of mine :)

Paavani said...

nice review...
i liked da hidden humour in between da lines...
guess u hava career option as a critic... :D

ShReShTh said...

nice one dude...
never knew that inborn talented critic in you.may be thats the consequence of too much critic readin abt bollywood and hollywood reading....

good going man...

Rajesh K said...

yeah! i too read the recently released "excellent" book.....

angels and demons... oops!
deception point...sorry!
the lost symbol...

and it all comes down to a dot and its encircle... grrrr....