Dan Brown used the right amount of intrigue to reel you in, the perfect dose of suspense to keep you hooked, and just the ample amount of pressure to urge you to finish it. You know how it is when your mind just screams “What the?!?!” I experienced that many times and it is very gratifying for a reader like me! 🙂 This book is very much reminiscent of “Angels and Demons” in terms of technique except that this one is better. His supporting cast surprised me and made me gasp repeatedly. I particularly like the intriguing premise of Langdon’s amnesia and his recurring visions. It is more socially relevant, too, as it dealt with issues such as over population and shortage of resources. Compared to his previous book which for me was just a bunch of compounded symbols waiting to be translated, “Inferno” has more depth and soul to it. Something that I missed in “The Lost Symbol” which I found again in “Inferno” was the unpredictability and edge-of-your-seat plots that truly captured my attention. The timeless poetry of Dante was forged so well with the modern times which resulted in a haunting yet satisfying reading experience. “Inferno” is the perfect blend of literature, art, and history made believable in fiction form. The exquisite beauty of Florence and Venice coupled with the magnificence of Istanbul made searching for answers more breathtaking and enigmatic in Dan Brown’s new book. Here is Dan Brown himself being interviewed by Wall Street Journal as he reveals the secrets of Inferno.Later on, Langdon discovered that he was sent to discover where a certain biological weapon was hidden which when unleashed could result in a global catastrophe. Add the fact that the streets of Manila (described as the gates of hell) also happen to be one of the settings in this novel.
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Needless to say, I would most likely watch the movie which apparently will come out next year. At any rate, I enjoyed “seeing” familiar sights as I read the novel: Somehow this was done in a way that I felt alienated the reader, indicating how much the reader does not seem to know as compared to Langdon who simply knows it all. I suppose what disengaged me as a reader is how each clue solved seemed like a well-earned validation of just how smart Robert Langdon is in figuring out the subtleties of each well-orchestrated challenge. What keeps the reader turning the pages is that it is not clear whom to trust – especially since there are assassins clearly intent on taking Langdon’s life to prevent him from uncovering the plot and solving the mystery.
The novel is riddled with codes and clues that a learned scholar such as Langdon is expected to unravel in the nick of time, given that the fate of humanity is in the balance, what with the World Health Organization involved in this bioterrorism plot which already claimed a few lives. At the Basilica Cistern – also known as Sunken Palace in Istanbul – blurry photo taken by me. I was fascinated more by the depiction of giftedness here and immense talent that portrayed a different and sordid path hell-bent on human destruction under the guise of saving humanity from the inevitable catastrophic effects of climate change through a very radical means of population control. While I found Sienna interesting, I also anticipated the betrayal in the end, which made the ending anticlimactic for me. I found it dull at first and while the twists and turns were seemingly fast-paced, I wasn’t too invested in it to really care about what was happening. However (yes the but can be heard a mile away), it took a great deal of will power and reading stamina for me to get into the book. I was expecting to be as riveted with Robert Langdon as I had been a few years ago especially since this novel came very highly recommended. It has been awhile since I read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, which I enjoyed tremendously. Since I fell in love with the city, I thought of reliving my time in Istanbul by biting into Dan Brown’s predictably-bestselling novel, Inferno. My primary motivation for reading this was my earlier visit to Istanbul where my amazing host informed me about how the latter part of the novel is set in Turkey. I knew when we launched our reading theme on Mystereadventure that I will have to share my thoughts about this novel which I read sometime in April.
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