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After the disappointment of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol  I wanted to find an audio book that I would really enjoy.  As luck would have it, I got it right with Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich.

I love this book!  I'm close to the end; and while it has taken me several weeks of listening to get there (I've been distracted with holidays, visitors, and a 36 mile bicycle race,) I'm looking forward to the last few discs.  This spy-thriller could have been another Ludlum clone, but the author has though about the plot, and provided lots of compelling characters.

Each step of the plot has brought surprises.  The end is in sight, but I'm not sure exactly what that will be.  The audio book is enhanced by a supurb narration by Paul Michael.

Wow.  An over-rated, over-hyped book.  Definitely not that great.  All of the author's weakness in plot construction and dialog are evident in this follow-up to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.  There was one good plot twist, but that's about it.

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The action has picked up.  I'm now about a third of the way through The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown.  The bad guys are beginning to make themselves known and unlike Brown's earlier works, we are getting quite a bit of back story on various characters.

I'm not yet convinced that this is better than The Da Vinci Code.  But I wish I was going into town more often so I could listen in the car.  However, I'm avoiding an outbreak of the flu in our area while I wait for my flu shot to kick in.

I have started the 17 hour The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.  I'm about a quarter of the way through it.  So far it's rather slow.  Not a lot of action and even more static scenes with lots of exposition than his previous books.  At this point I'm guessing about 30 minutes has elapsed in the timeline.  I've seen soap operas that moved more quickly.

That seems to be about to change as a door is opened deep underneath the capitol building in Washington, DC.

I'm listening on my iPod in my car.  I love it!

I'm just about finished with an excellent audio book version of popular author Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow.  Connelly has one of the best detective series going with the Harry Bosch stories.  In The Scarecrow he brings back two characters from earlier works.  Los Angeles Times reporter, Jack McEvoy and FBI agent Rachel Walling.  McEvoy appeared many years ago in The Poet.  Now about to leave the Times, McEvoy stumbles on a big story that leads to a serial killer.

This book is Connelly at his finest.  Well-written with a just the right inside touches about the life of a journalist at a major paper like the LA Times, the plot moves swiftly along with lots of action and suspense.  I'm on the final disc and should finish it tomorrow when I drive into town.  This is a great listen!