Boring Dan Brown

After reading "Da vinci code", I have completed all the works of Dan brown except the last one i.e The lost symbol in which I have lost interest after reading half of it.

In fact I have started reading English literature after reading Da vinci code. That book was very gripping from the beginning , before even  realizing i was reading my first English novel, I finished it. So naturally my expectations are very high about his books. But it seems, he is concentrating more on the background story without touching the base story line.

In the last four novels the story line is almost same. An old guy will die at the starting of the novel, our hero comes to picture, soon heroin will join him, usually she will be a blood-relative the dead man , when the protagonist is struggling to solve mysteries ,  an influential person will come to help him, we start to think that the new guy is a good guy, but at the end it will be revealed that the new character is the antagonist and he is responsible for the death of the old guy in the beginning . Its the same story line in all the books so far.

Except the deception point, rest of all novels are related to cryptography. So far Dan Brown wrote 5 novels, for 3 novels, the character Robert Longdon is the hero, who is a claustrophobic symbolist  with a Mickey mouse wrist watch.

I have finished half of the "The lost symbol", and it is just going like Da vinci code. The symbols, icons, dead man in the beginning, 'ancient secrets', brotherhood, rituals, pyramids, robert langdon running away from police and villains, private planes...... i give up,  i am bored. 

Well, i never ended talking about Dan brown without mentioning Angles and Daemons. Its the bulkiest and my fav of all his books. Its not so exciting and intriguing as Da vinci code but, the opposition between science and religion is beautifully explained.

Dan brown got lot of fame after Da vinci code, that does not mean that his next novel also should be like it. I wish he wont bore me with the next book.