One of the most successful authors, Dan Brown is worldwide known for these adventurous novels, where the protagonist, a professor with eidetic memory specialized in cryptography and symbols, goes on agitated journeys in order to solve grand mysteries, while conspiracies are taking place.
Engaging story about a curious professor, an Italian woman and their discovery of a massive conflict between religion and science. The mysterious parts were interesting, the conversations were fun as well as the various characters, the twist as to who was controlling the Illuminati was good and I liked the locations used for this, such as CERN and Vatican City. It was also a thinking man's story, at times letting you side with religion or science.
Also known as Het Berini Mysterie.
Another mysterious tale unfolds for Robert Langdon, and this time, it is centered around the object known as the holy grail.
Several organizations are once again present, but not all of them are active in present time. And once again, a twist plays near the end as to who the puppet master really is. Concisely, the stories are written in the same matter, yet differ in their contents.
Both of them give food for thought surrounding large topics, largely involving religion and of course mysterious objects and riddles being unfolded in a way of fiction.
The Da Vinci Code is also notoriously the most controversial entry for apparently having historical and scientific inaccuracies, while offending Christians, and yet ironically, it is Dan's best selling novel.
Robert Langdon’s third symbolistic adventure brings him towards Washington D.C. , to be more precise inside the magnificent Capitol building left behind by the Founding Fathers of the U.S.A. .
With a new cast of characters, another typical villain this time full with tatoo’s and steroids, and of course mysteries that need to be solved, in this case the largest one yet, The Lost Symbol is an exciting adventure that of course references symbolism, freemasonry, mysticism, religion and more secretive topics into creating a wonderful revelation.
Robert Langdon wakes up with amnesia and will be racing against the clock together with a brilliant intellectual sidekick to stop a global viral pandemic happening caused by a billionaire who uses Danti Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and it’s Inferno concept to conclude that overpopulation needs to be reversed, and he has found the solution.
Getting hunted by both a mysterious organization and the W.H.O., The symbologist travels through Florence, Venice and Istanbul while uncovering secrets, dealing with proponents and opponents, while the plot twist mainly turns the roles of the supported case, in reverse.
Inferno is a splendid sequel for Dan Brown fans! It’s also kind of ironic to have read this during the current global Corona crisis.
After being invited by his former student Edmond Kirsch, a futurist, computer
scientist and billionaire in order to attend a revolutionary meeting that will
shake the foundation of religions and humanity, Robert Langdon must discover
after his unexpected murder what he was about to unveil towards the world, together
with his latest female sidekick, before the knowledge is lost.
Origin is another entertaining spin of Langdon’s previous adventures,
using the same formula to eventually unveil the big conspiracy unveiling, and
letting out a plot twist or two, while using real life locations, objects and
historical figures to fleshen out the story.
The revelation towards Kirsch’s presentation was an interesting one to finally
read at the end, attempting to explain where we as humans come from, through physics,
and where we are going, through technology.
All five books get a book rating of *** or three stars from me!
