So I quickly finished the new Dan Brown Book...

The Lost Symbol. I tell you what, it had me hooked, and I just had to know what happened next. If you've read the other books or seen the movies (Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code for the uninitiated), this book has the elements you've come to expect from a Langdon adventure. There are enough twists, some I anticipated, few I didn't, plenty of suspense, and a good mystery overall. I like how it takes place in D.C., too; you couldn't have done better to convince me that it would be a worthwhile trip (though I hear it is a rough city).

There's this subplot that centers around Noetic Science. Now, it would be fantastic if their claims are true, and it turns out people can be healed by willpower alone from a distance and all that jazz, but until their results are solid and repeatable, in a word, fact, claims are all they have. Anyway, the good news is that while it's present in the story, none of it is critical for the story to work. Nobody uses their jedi mind tricks here, which is great, because then I, like Langdon, wouldn't believe it.

In summation, Dan Brown does a good job of mixing ideas together to form a complete narrative. If this book is also adapted to film, I can already see a couple of parts that would need to change entirely (One really suspenseful scene is entirely in the dark. That simply wouldn't work visually), but I'd be there to see it in theaters.

Well, now that this one's done, what next? Any recommendations for a good read?