The "Completely" lost Symbol

Last week I completed reading of Dan Browns recent masterpiece "The lost symbol". I had a great expectation from the novel having read almost all his previous books.Of course his work is fiction and it should be treated as such. You should not read too much into an author who names his best selling work as "The of Vinci Code" (Italian da =of). And regarding his grammar , well we read the story for time pass right. However the telegraph did a good article on the most humorous phrases in his book. It can be found here.
Dan brown faithfully follows his time tested formula. Take any organization or religion and add a lot of controversies to the same. Put the novel in a location that has got a lot off odd ball architecture and you have a bestseller. The curiosity factor itself will sell the book. But the problem with the Lost symbol is the Pace and lack of a coherent plot. The Da vinci code was at least fast paced and it had a lot of things that were new. Symbology, lot of controversial myths about the church added to the storyline in Da vinci code.
However the Lost symbol has none of the above. The whole story revolves around the lost word which infact turns out to be bible. And according to Dan brown its not the work of god but man and you have to intrepret the truth in the bible. And to top it we are all god like the great one says. He does not even try to pull up some dirt about the free masonry an organization that is rife with more conspiracies than the Vatican. One wonders why when you compare it with the Da vinci code which does not have any reservations about the vatican.

Lost Symbol gets repetitive after some time. You have the same cast of characters similar to Da Vinci code Robert Langdons Mentor, an exotic villain, A beautiful and intelligent Heroine and instead of a dead body in the Lourve museum you have a hand. No big surprises in the end too.
Seems like he is sticking to the same format. But it becomes a tedium to the users after some time. And as is his custom he does not waste any time in indulging in some intellectual potshot at religious rituals and this time he even brings in Hinduism too.
A very good blog on his latest novel can be found at Krish Ashoks Blog here
If you have a lot of time in your hand you can go for it. Otherwise a strict no no