Synopsis: Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol Accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in U.S. Capitiol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object- artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation...one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon-a prominent Mason and philanthropist-is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations-all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. Sounds exciting right? It's not. It started off exciting and suspenseful. And until about half way through I believed I was just one page away from this exciting truth the synopsis talks about. But page after page nothing exciting happened till I was near the end and still nothing that exciting. Then it hit me, this is it? this is the exciting inconceivable truth I've been waiting for??? Overall I found this book a bit disappointing. I still think that Dan Brown has some great books such as his popular Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. This book fell several hundred feet short of these great suspenseful page turners.
I give it 2 out of 5 stars. 
hmmm. I need to read this.
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