When I was about half way through this one, I was going to repeat something I had said about another book: forget the reviews, just get it and read it.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, I finished Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, and my conclusion is much different: don’t waste your time.

At least half of it is a ‘page turner,’ a race to see what is going to happen. But some where beyond the middle, it slows.

And by the end, Brown has turned what began as a thriller into moralizing and philosophizing pablum.

I suspect many folks will be disappointed by this book.

I certainly was.