Inferno dan brown3/1/2024 I would have expected to have finished this book by now, the other ones I have read in a night, but I have had this since the release date and still haven't got through it yet, but I must say my sleep has improved since listening to it, perhaps it could be re-released as a sleep aid and be more accurate. Also it wasn't until hearing the narrator try other characters out that you really got a taste of his narration, which was also abysmal. I had listened to a sample and really thought that it sounded as good as say,' The Davinci Code', but sadly I was very wrong. He is usually so well researched, his characters exciting, his plot racy but this book. Dan Brown fans everywhere will love it those who never warmed to his oeuvre of the thriller wrapped in conspiracy theory may well be disappointed once again.įirstly I have to say that I have really enjoyed other Dan Brown novels and was very much looking forward to this book. Overall, this is a great listen, narration aside. I appreciate that this is entirely my own personal "taste and fancy", but this is my review and it is sometimes difficult to retain total objectivity. This utterly set my teeth on edge after a while. The entire book is read in American English, the exception being the Italians, whose accents were almost risible in parts, and with such verbal horrors of "niche" continually pronounced to rhyme with "pitch", and "fertile" to rhyme with "turtle". The only non-European character is Langdon himself, so I would have expected some effort on the part of the narrator to reflect this. For Audible, however, the performance can make or break the enjoyment of a book, and, in this, the American narration spoiled this to a certain extent. It is not possible to say more than this without spoiling some element of the caduceus-like plot. Whilst Langdon is delightfully the same, he is supported by a cast of well drawn characters who are at once believable yet, in most cases, fundamentally flawed. Suffice it to say that Robert Langdon, a character who needs no introduction, is back to what he does best, racing across Europe in a desperate attempt to thwart the baddie who the baddie actually is, however, is swathed in layers of smoke, mirrors and downright misdirection until well into the story. A précis of the plot isn't really possible without spoiling the whole book. It is not great literature, but, then again, it never claims to be. This is Dan Brown back to his best a racy thriller with more twists, turns and total plot inversions than any one book could possibly be expected to contain. However, I suspect his secular underskirt is showing a bit more than usual. If you like Dan Brown's style you will probably enjoy the book. There is nothing to detract from his performance. Amnesia brought an interesting twist to Langdon's task at hand - to safe the world (once again). What is clear however is that Robert Langdon has become a 21st century James Bond, anti-establishment in certain ways, ethically indestructible and for the first time he was not ahead in his game. I also don't think the way he used misdirection as a device to create suspense with, is very convincing. In certain ways, he seems the be the Phillip Pulman of adults. By now, I must confess, I am getting a bit irritated with the subtle undertones and the secular humanist agenda that Brown puts forward. There is a lot of suspense and action - enough to keep you glued to the book. Robert Langdon is the expert par excellance on symbology and the way he interprets a "text" is more or less the only correct way. Rather than taking history seriously, he takes the urban legends that has arisen seriously. In many ways Brown's Inferno is same old same old. Lines are blurred as it seems to be the human race on its own, without God or tradition, to make decisions about its future. What is interesting is how Brown leaves behind a feeling that the "genius villain" of this story was not so cruel. Now Dan Brown pushes a secular humanist agenda by using Dante's Divine Comedy to introduce us to another mad man with an apocalyptic agenda. Apocalyptic suspense in another esoteric milieuįirst it was the Roman Catholic Church and the election of the pope (Angels and Demons), then the so-called Jesus dynasty (The Da Vinci Code), then the Free Masons (The Lost Symbol) that were critiqued, while keeping his readers nailed to their armchairs in suspense.
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