A Google user
Novel starts slow, but picks up very well as you go along. If Dan Brown would write all his books like the middle to the end of this one, people would be more entertained than they already are. The read is alright, I saw the twist about the father and son coming from a mile away, as did anyone else who reads the book I'm sure. The very last part after the story climax, I could have done without. Its a decent read.
A Google user
Apparently Dan Brown has lost all pretense of even pretending his stories could be anything but fantasy. It almost seems like the only purpose of this book is to apologize to religious readers that he may have offended with his previous Robert Langdon adventures. Any attempt at scientific explanation is gone, the mystery is simply uninteresting, as most are when the answer to the mystery is simply "magic".
A Google user
This is the first novel Brown writes after becoming wicked-rich and famous (he actually wrote A/D first, then DaVinci second which, of course, is when he struck gold) Which is to say that he was writing the novel as if he already pictured it on screen. The Lost Symbol was decent, not bad, and entertaining. It had a few "wow" moments and the chase scenes were, well, chase scenes. All in all it was good. A bit predictable, but OK. It felt like he wrote specific scenes because they'd look good on screen...