Barbara S. (barbsis) - , reviewed on 2/2/2011 + 1076 more book reviews

I enjoyed the mystery but found the religious aspects to go on and on adnauseam. This book does to DC what [book:Angels & Demons|960] did for Rome and the Vatican. This provided a lot more about the hidden architecture of DC than I needed or wanted to know. It is interesting but Dan Brown doesn't know when to stop. The science of Noetics (a combination of partical physics and mystical philosophy) is an interesting science until it gets too religious. I'm an atheist and all this religious babble really started getting on my nerves.

I found the cab ride to be the most ridiculous thing ever. Who in their right might speaks freely in a cab? Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon finally escaped from the CIA and are running to sanctuary and yet here they are discussing every single thing they have discovered about the masonic pyramid. I understand that in order for the book to progress, the CIA had to have these details but Mr. Brown should have found a more believable way to get the information to them. This was beyond ridiculous. Robert Langdon is an incredibly brilliant symbolist and Katherine Solomon is a Noetic scientist whose entire purpose for being is a secret. Yet here they are casually discussing national secrets in a cab while running for their lives. DUH!

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