Novels based on history and its unsolved mysteries have always been alluring to a great audience in general. They are massively popular among children as well as adults and the popularity and demand created for Dan Brown’s latest offering “The Lost Symbol” is hardly surprising.
Like the Da Vinci Code that received tremendous popularity in the market for it’s most well written, historical and controversial story, the Lost Symbol is once again a story packed with rich history, symbolic codes, and conspiracy. The novel was released on September 15, 2009; it is the third Dan Brown novel to entail the leading character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000’s the popular one Angels & Demons and 2003’s most thriving The Da Vinci Code. The novel is multifaceted with symbolism, historical environment, parable and even a mathematical puzzle or two.
The novel captures the reader from its initial pages and beguiles one to keep reading. However the author interestingly brings them back to contemporary veracity, while parting some mysterious thoughts for the reader to ponder. The central theme for this novel is a blend of science and religion.
The Lost Symbol persists to fabricate on the grounds of the struggle between light and darkness that is depicted in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. In this present scenario, the story speaks of the trust that mankind will revive their lost potential and pull themselves back from the threshold of ruin. The characters are well written, substantial and offer good hold and dialogue to progress the story along. The main character, Robert Langdon is shown growing and realizing new things about himself as he is dealt with notions that defies some of his predetermined ideas and philosophy. By the end of the story, he is reflecting on those disclosures and is surprised at the hope they motivate within him.
The increasing popularity of The Lost Symbol has become one of the hot picks and the fastest selling ones this year.
