Professor Langdon, who is supposed to save the world once again, is also the subject here, as already in his other two books "Sakrileg" and "Illuminati".
The first novel by Dan Brown to be published in Germany quickly made it to the top of the bestseller list. With his book The Da Vinci Code, published in 35 countries, he became one of the most successful writers of all time. Dan Brown is married and lives in New Hampshire with his wife Blythe Newlon, an art historian.
Personally I am a big Dan Browm fan so I read his thriller "The Lost Symbol" with great pleasure. Ok one can be quite divided, not torn apart by his critics, but still they criticize his sometimes somewhat wooden spelling in this book, which I didn't feel like that at all. It's not bad they write, but it doesn't reach the level of his previously written books "Sakrileg" and "Illuminati". Well, critics, if they didn't criticize anything, they had lost their raison d'être.
After the Catholic Church's accusations against the Da Vinci Code/Sacrilege and now also against the lost symbol, one wonders what the author wants to tell us. Dan Brown does not show much sympathy for the Christian faith in the lost symbol. Because already at the beginning of the book his students fall into a trap.
You are a member of a cult
Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper.
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra I kneel before an old instrument of torture and consume ritual symbols of blood and flesh.
The students looked scared.
Langdon shrugged his shoulders. And if any of you would like to do the same, come to Harvard Chapel on Sunday, kneel before the crucifix and receive Holy Communion.
Completely unreflected, on the other hand, he behaves towards the Freemasons, whose philosophy and ideology he describes completely neutrally. They can't be evil if the founding fathers of the USA themselves (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin etc.) were members of their lodges.
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