This week I read Ithaka by Adele Geras and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

I did not like Ithaka at all. It was too similar to Troy as i have said before, and unlike i had hoped the stories did not deviate in the similarity of their endings, both containing similar ideas of sadness and destruction. I would give this book a 4 because if i had read it without having ead the other, i might have liked it, but instead i didn't like it.

I really liked The Lost Symbol, however. Dan Brown is a very good, suspenseful writer, and he's also a very seducing conspiracy theoryist. In this book, his theories are about the origins of Washington D.C., and a society called the Masons. He also incorporates about the science of thought, and the idea that minds and thoughts can cause reactions. So far I've liked all of his books because they incorporate totally outlandish elements, symbols, and things, yet they all seem to fit together perfectly and seemlessly. He also always makes you wonder what will happen next, because he does not always tell his characters revelations when they have them, and the characters are almost always in danger. This one does not disappoint. I give it a 9.