The Lost Symbol

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^if you've ordered it from Indiaplaza, forget about it... I had ordered the same combo on July 22nd and after repeated follow ups they cancelled my order saying they do not have stock. They cancelled my order on Sep 8th.
 
Sorry but I don't lend or sell books. I never got my older books back which I gave to my friends for reading :(
 
Guys, should I order it from flipkart. Its 468 bucks there. Howz ur experience from buying there ? Does it have shipping extra?
 
^ IIRC , shipping is free for orders > 100 Rs . and they ship via bluedart , very prompt and good service , have ordered around 10 books from there
 
Fahrenheit said:
I wasn't asking you to lend them to me...Anyway, good to see a fellow Rollins fan on TE..
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You took me wrong :P I like to collect books. Just received my package, copy of The Last Oracle looks like the cheap roadside ahem version but the Doomsday Key is proper version with good quality paper.

saqib_khan said:
Guys, should I order it from flipkart. Its 468 bucks there. Howz ur experience from buying there ? Does it have shipping extra?
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Best is from Indiaplaza as you get a free DvD of Da Vinci Code and they ship through Aramex and nicely packed.
 
^I guess so. I had ordered on sunday, got it on Tuesday afternoon. Well packed, along with teh free books (DVC and A&D)
 
I finished the book two day's ago. I didn't like it very much. It left many un-answered questions, and the ending was anything but spectacular. This book is a letdown, compared to The Da-Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Lacks that unputdownable-page-turner feel that the other creations had.
 
OT: Just got "Digital Fortress" which I ordered a week ago for 189 shipped, will read it this weekend.

Just now placed an order for "Cryptonomicon" from landmark online for about 550 shipped and for "Daemon" from coralhub.com for 1100 shipped but they claim it will take 30-40 days for the former and 20 days for the other...

Read the first chapter of Digital Fortress and it reminded me why I don't read novels... the wording (writing style) is too cliched like the typical "it was a dark and stormy night" way of writing haha :ohyeah: but looking forward to reading these three books.
 
The Lost Symbol is filled with plot holes.

like this one

1) How does OS Chief Inoue Sato or for that matter, the director of CBI know that the masons had been infiltrated, more so where did they get the video from that is shown to Bellamy, long before the camera wig is discovered.

2) Masons are a highly intelligent lot, for Zachary to have infiltrated them and be amongst them and get to the 33rd degree, would have taken a lot of time and doesnt fit in well

Not to mention, I had figured out who was mal'akh quite soon through the book.
 
The reasons you mention struck me too while reading the book. Though the story builds up decently in the beginning, it dies off quickly, due to the lack of "Puzzle Solving" pages which The Da Vinci Code was full of and made it a bestseller. And in the end there was no secret as such to be shared. Well, a one time read at best, it may become a bestseller only because it will be riding on the previous Dan Brown fame.
 
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