The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

The BBC members in attendance found The Lost Symbol both drearily meandering and too inoffensive to the freemasons by half. Mary emerged as the more forthright critic, asserting that she found it to flipping (oh go on Mary, say it “fucking”!) predictable and found herself grinding her teeth to finish it.

The ever kindly Leanne found the good trivial (geez, not even good enough to be “general”) knowledge interesting. Leanne found that the background research of the rituals involved resonated with the common ground of her own experience of growing up in a religious household.

The negativity towards the book became more intense as the reviews ground on, the tone however was substantially raised by Nat’s superb hospitality with a Belgian twist.

Scores were:

Natalie 6.5
Kevin 6
Leanne 7
Mary 4
Dennis 4

Only a couple managed to finish it … I was never going to read this book (Mark!)

The next book will be “The Flounder” by Gunter Grass