The Lost Symbol is a heavy, tedious read.

Long. Slow. Boring. A waste of the paper it’s printed on.

I spent 14 days fighting to finish this plodder. And there was absolutely no reward for it at all. The twist at the end was ridiculous. Completely unbelievable. This is not good writing in any way.

Why is this piece of garbage being hyped? It’s nothing but description. No real plot or action happens at all. And the “science” is silly beyond belief.

And beyond all this it’s DULL. Unremittingly, unrelentingly dull. How dare they describe this as “a brilliant and compelling thriller?” No brilliance was happening in Dan Brown’s head when he wrote it, obviously. And Janet Maslin’s review was just embarrassing. Dan Brown is “bringing sexy back?” What the heck was she smoking?

Word is getting out. People are complaining. Or at least they were. Until Dan Brown and Doubleday began removing every bad comment about the book from the net.

There is no Amazon.com listing for this book anymore. It has disappeared. It was there yesterday. Now it’s gone. There was a bad comment about the book on Publishers Weekly. This also has disappeared.

There’s an Amazon.ca listing for The Lost Symbol. It isn’t favourable. I’m sure it won’t be there much longer.

I bet they’re going to wipe out this comment, too. What a sleazy conspiracy. Guess money really does rule, after all.