Is THE LOST SYMBOL one of thesebooks that will stand the test of time? Probably not. In the nearly three Millennia history of written books, few works of popular culture,with a handful of exceptions such as Shakespeare's,have achieved centuries of endurance and longevity. But Dan Brown's THE LOST SYMBOL may , in retrospect, be a different kind of enduring achievement.
It may provide future historians and anthropologists one of the best renderings in one volume, of humankind's early twenty-first century thoughts, debates and inarticulate pointings at currently inexpressible ideas about some of the biggest questions, mysteries and challenges of human existence.