Dan brown, inferno

I'm so happy that i read this book! Feb 28, Carol rated it it was ok. Brown described every nuance of the architecture of Florence to the point that it became tedious and didn't add that much to the storyline.

I am disappointed in this book because, based on Brown's previous works, he can do much better. Feb 18, Nikhil R rated it it was ok. Not as engaging as the previous ones Brown needs to step up his game. May 11, Ayush Sen rated it it was amazing. Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon book, Inferno, throws the clever professor into another complex mystery with global consequences.

Aug 25, Gabychka rated it it was amazing. Probably my favorite of the entire series thus far. It made me look at some issues in a different way which is always compelling. Loved the journey again in the book - the city, the art.

Ending was not expected. Jan 07, Scott Nelson rated it it was amazing. Robert Langdon is a great series character and Dan Brown keeps each book as a stand-alone achievement. Jul 18, Galvay rated it it was amazing. This one for me is a breaking point, you can say this is not a good book, and the next one is even worse. It's like Dan Brown has Burnt out and doesn't enjoy writing books anymore.

Jan 01, Karen Tischhauser rated it it was amazing. I was just reminded of this book because the movie was on TV. It was terrifying and fascinating. Jan 05, Jimo15 rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction-action. Pretty entertaining. Feb 09, Sue Martin rated it really liked it. Plenty of twists and turns to keep the pages turning. Love all the clues and codes. Aug 28, Debbie Dawson added it. Brilliantly captivating book.

Mar 15, Tracy Snar rated it really liked it. Dan is a great writer and the books about Italy are particularly intriguing to me as I recently travelled there so it takes me back in time. An amzing book by Dan Brown An accident in Italy where protagonist loses a few days from his memory and wakes up to find people chasing him all over Italy.

Jul 30, Babak Ferdowsmakan rated it it was amazing. Characters were developed well. And the sequence of happiness keeps your attention. Sep 25, Jawaid Hameed rated it it was amazing. Good book but reading books have become a bit out of fashion now and people are moving to "listening" books. May 08, Maureen Connolly rated it liked it. I think the Dan Brown phenomenon has come to a natural end. I enjoyed the early books but now I feel they have run out of steam.

Maureen Connelly Hexham Northumberland. Feb 02, BillyGoodreads rated it liked it. I was disappointed in this book. The book was ok, but it was not up the standards set by his other novels. He described some interesting places in great detail but the story was lame and the mysteries and puzzles were few and not very good.

There was one twist sort of but not much of one. Mr Brown was also trying to push some sort of world population explosion agenda.

If he comes out with another novel I'll probably read it since his past ones were much better than this one. Feb 24, Jussi Wuoti rated it liked it. Same old, same old. Like other books from Dan Brown, but now it really starts to repeat itself. Didn't finish this one. Apr 11, Joni Dee rated it it was ok. Dan Brown has did it again.

After 2 hits and an atrocity called "the Lost Symbol", Brown comes back with a catchy novel, that takes it's riddles and mystery from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically "inferno" So far so good. As Langdon and Sienna Brooks, the current "main squeeze" travel together around Florence, Venice etc - they fight off bad guys, decipher ancient riddles and generally save the day.

The problem starts when Brown deliberately 'fixes' current scenes and truths to make th Dan Brown has did it again. The problem starts when Brown deliberately 'fixes' current scenes and truths to make the drama intensify later on. Misinformation such as to the identity of Langdon's assailants seems excessive to the extent that the writer then has to quote full paragraphs to make the story line believable.

Cheap misconceptions are a common thing in this book, only to be explained later to the idiot reader 'soft' spoiler alert : view spoiler [" oh you think they drugged me because they are the bad guys?? Pish posh I was having a rare disease moment" "oh was she shooting on you and killing a guy? Nah it was all fake" Please!!! Though, this novel is very far from the writer's early works, to the extent that one must ask himself where did he go wrong..

When did Brown chose the easy root of turning his art into a "fast food read" where the readers are disregarded as those who need everything explained to them.. Would a few more months of hard work and profound thought - could have made this book into a good one? I guess we'll never know Jan 17, Mlth rated it really liked it.

This book is absolutely breathtaking. The main character of this book, Robert Langdon is a symbologist at an university. He is mysterious, round, smart and also very calm. May 31, Will Byrnes rated it really liked it Shelves: thriller , fiction. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate or Abandon all hope, ye who enter here Dante and Virgil approach the entrance to Hell From the WorldofDante.

There is, of course, a deadline. A mad scientist of a Dante super-fan, who takes theatrical delight in referring to himself as The Shade , would like to bring about a great renaissance for humanity, a reawakening similar to the one that occurred following the Black Plague.

As with that earlier event, The Shade , a Batman villain if Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate or Abandon all hope, ye who enter here Dante and Virgil approach the entrance to Hell From the WorldofDante. Malthus lives, and has spawned a group of die-hard Transhumanists who think we and our planet would be a lot better off were there significantly fewer of us using up space, air, water, et al, and hogging the remotes. Or was he? Langdon wakes up in an ER, with a head wound, a distinctly fuzzy recollection of the recent past and thinks he is back in Massachusetts.

Brunelleschi didn't design any buildings in New England. That large dome you see out the window means you are in Florence. And, by the way, there is a well armed, nicely leather-clad biker person heading down the hall, weapons blazing.

Check please. This offers an example of something that is entirely depressing. Had that been an American hospital there is no way he could have gotten out without having to sign insurance forms or promissory notes, guns blazing or not. Mister Langdon. We need you to sign here, here, here, and initial here, here and here. You, with the gun, take a number and have a seat.

Gordon Liddy holding his hand over a flame at a dinner party to impress someone or other. He held it long enough to singe himself, and cause alarm in those present.

But there are elements to reading his work that are certainly painful. I suppose one might think of it as a form of Purgatory. You can certainly enjoy the good while putting up with the bad. The trick is not minding the latter. There are certain formulae at work, and if you are not prepared to be led along, keeping the blinders firmly affixed for the duration, you might do better to read something else with the several hours it takes to work your way through the levels in Inferno.

Yes, there are some We do not expect to find work similar to that of, say, Louise Erdrich, or Ron Rash, and it would be unfair, not to say unkind, to apply to Brown the metrics applied to writers of more serious fiction. But then, what standards should we apply? There are two general qualities that merit our attention here, and more specific elements within each.

Is it entertaining? Is it informative? Entertaining Does the story engage out attention? Or do we find ourselves wandering off? Is it fast-paced? Do we care about the characters? Is it fun?

In short, does this make a good beach read? Informative Does it teach us something new? Is the information interesting? Does it address some larger issue, one of actual significance? Does it make sense? While not, for me at least, as engaging as The DaVinci Code , I kept turning all pages, eager to find out what there was to be found, info and plot-wise.

But I was not exactly panting to get back to the book at every free moment. Is the Pope Argentinian? This is what Brown does. Aside from the sort of occasional interruptions that might give the wearer of a pace-maker the sweats, noted in more detail below he keeps things moving along. That book was also a series. Battle, capture, rescue, escape, repeat, with bits of information about some underlying subject in the book tossed in to grease the narrative wheels.

Ditto here. Speaking of greasing, you will need to have some eye drops handy to avoid chafing from frequent eye-rolling. It seems that every time there is a need to gain access to some large institution, Brown trots out what seems almost a running joke of Robert Langdon having some relationship with the person in charge.

I bet if Langdon needed 3am access to the UFO museum in Roswell, we would learn that he had tracked aliens with the museum director and had contributed a live specimen from the Crab Nebula at some time in the not too distant past.

The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets? In one, the hero and heroine pause as the world collapses around them to engage in a lengthy soulful smooch. Pay no attention to that incoming missile, kids. In the second, a child dashes back to the burning-building or alien-infested-spaceship to retrieve her choose one - favorite stuffy, kitten, puppy, photo of long dead but really only missing mother or father.

Brown pauses the action every so often, inserts himself and his research into the narrative Bob, Si, relax. Ready, set, flee. Truthfully, it is tough not to care about a character that has the face of Tom Hanks ironed onto it, but yeah, I guess, although a lot less than a whole lot of other fictional people. It is fun to see Langdon attempting to recover his memory and figure out who that mysterious woman he keeps seeing in vision-flashes might be.

So sure, why not. Aside from those two, only a little here and there. Character is not the thing in Dan Brown books. Brown does revel in puzzles and there are more secrets embedded in Inferno than there are candied items in a fruit cake.

And some are quite delicious. OK, I hereby out myself as a weirdo who likes fruit cake. Literarily, Inferno is a lot more like chiffon cake than its denser cousin. Also there are enough twists to keep the cap machines at the Nogara Coke bottling factory busy for a long time. Does it make a good beach read? We learn of a mysterious transnational entity, that Brown swears is based on a real organization, that smoothes out the curves so that people of questionable motives, but certain resources, can go about their business unimpeded.

The head of this group might have been well served with a fluffy white kitty and a pinky ring. Brown offers some nifty tour guides to this and that location in several cities, and a fair bit of history on Dante and his most famous bit of writing. He offers some illuminating details on this or that building, painting and sculpture, including where it might have traveled over the centuries well, not the buildings, of course and whether the version we see today is a fully original specimen.

He also gives us a very good reason to take a tour of the secret passageways in Old World cities. The Vasari Corridor from Wiki commons Is the information interesting? Dante and His Poem by Michelino from Wikimedia If you find Dante and his best-known work of interest, and really, you should, this book is a lot of fun.

Of course what constitutes interesting is almost always in the eye of the beholder. If your thing is video games, well then not so much.

Two in fact. One of the major elements in the story is the determination by our psycho-scientist billionaire sort that human population is about to reach a dangerous level, one which is likely to trigger all sorts of catastrophes. There are various ways one can address this concern, but the underlying concern is quite real. Brown does us all a service by bringing it to the attention of millions of readers.

Whether one sees this as a Satanic plot, yet another opportunity for the haves to have even more, or the beginning of a new human renaissance, the subject is worth checking out.

In some ways yes and in some ways no. There is validity to the underlying science. But would the baddie really leave a breadcrumb trail for potential foilers to his big bang? That said, it can be fun to descend into the bowels of the earth, or the watery substructures of ancient architectural marvels, however many levels down you care to go.

Irrfan Khan as Harry Sims, head of The Consortium - image from NDTV movies Whether you think that Dan Brown belongs in literary heaven, Hades or somewhere in between, he makes a wonderful Virgil, leading us on an interesting journey, and showing us some things we might not have ever imagined.

It may not qualify as a divine book, but Inferno is one hell of a read. And I am sure there is significance to the fact that there are chapters in the book, plus a prologue and an epilogue, so but I have not been able to suss out exactly what. There are 99 cantos in the Commedia , maybe a couple more with this or that added, but I do not know how one can fluff that up to Yet, I am sure there is an explanation.

When if I find it I will include it here. In order to accommodate the text beyond that I have moved it to the comments section below in comment And This time all that is not for the sake of Vatican Cardinals, or to unlock a code kept hidden by secret successors of the Knights Templar, or saving The Mason's Secrets..

This time it's for the sake of the Globe The World we're living in. For me the light Dan shed on this problem really scared the hell out of me. Actually that made me a bit confused and somehow taking side with the 'villain' in this novel But Dan Brown really know how to make a suitable ending, as I loved his ending in his Debut Novel 'Digital Fortress' cause let's admit that ending a bomb in the last 3 seconds is silly ending unless it's done smartly and perfect I won't say more about the plot, since I think telling even the tiniest bit of it would be a bit of spoiler of the thrilling novel.

The amazing perfect choice of Venice to be a metaphor for the crises of over population. Venice, like the planet itself, had only a finite amount of space, and at some point would no longer be able to import enough food, dispose of enough waste, or find enough beds for all those who wanted to visit it.

Even the small glimpse of Philippines with the metaphor of the inferno of Malthus' Theory. All these secret places, and marvellous golden Art , Halls and Buildings.. Mixing that all as usual with the thriller packed novel.. Those characters will help in other kind of references, science, medical information, trivial ones about how mind work and the conversion from dark topics -like this novel- to lighter ones ,say Cute Cats Videos.. Even highly intellectual users displayed an instinctual tendency toward denial.

According to the study, the vast majority of university students, after clicking on a depressing news article about arctic ice melt or species extinction, would quickly exit that page in favor of something trivial that purged their minds of fear; favorite choices included sports highlights, funny cat videos, and celebrity gossip.

And of course Every Character is deep enough And I believe That a story like this required too much efforts to make a good ending.. Yet It's perfect to me And same here.. It's a great story , a great enriching journey IS OUT Some Loved it.. Some just liked it.. Some Hated it.. Well It's Inferno.. What do ya think? It must be a Hell of A Read As It became a hell of Reviews..

Still Waiting any news about the Illustrated Edition. I was in Cairo for business and It's at only one of the famous bookshops in Egypt at the same worldwide release day..

It was still early morning and it was just there I was checking my facebook mobile on the way,and Dan Brown's page announcing this: God, When you see the book's adorable ,mystic cover.. There's some Illustrations from the Inferno on Mr. Dan Langdon Brown on his face book page Wish to those who start the book full entertainment and enjoy the reading The problem is that's no any Info or news about it.

So should I wait for Inferno's Illustrated or not and start order it? I just start at Angels and Demons as soon as I hear that book is coming up I loved the two movies for Robert Langdon already but now I see the 1st novel is way better and much detailed. That got me a big respect for the author who take all that time to make a Novel that perfectly written.. Also by the end , after the hell of adventure The Hell of A Read.. Mohammed Arabey From 16 Feb.

View all 97 comments. Jun 13, Jane rated it it was ok Shelves: fiction , b3r. Measuring nine-and-a-half by six-and-a-quarter by one-and-a-half inches, the object was encased in a shiny substance the overweight reviewer knew to be plastic.

A book of some kind. The labels affixed to the spine proclaimed its origin: the library. It was adorned with the terrifying profile of a red-cheeked man in a red cap and red cloak, surmounted by a series of concentric circles.

The color of blood. And those circle things look like a target. The reviewer knew that Dan Brown born June 22, is an American author of thriller fiction who is best known for the bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories.

His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of , sold over million copies. I copied that straight out of Wikipedia. Dan Brown is going to kill me! The female reviewer recalled that Dan Brown is currently the twentieth highest selling author of all time and with only six books, he has achieved these sales writing fewer books than anyone above him on the list.

The Robert Langdon series is currently the seventh highest selling series of all time. Like Dan Brown, I do most of my research on the Web. Not the Internet. Dan Brown likes to talk about the Web. It sounds more. The married reviewer felt an instant spark of attraction toward the sandy-haired author, who always seems to be wearing a tweed jacket in his photo shoots. Could he be Robert Langdon in disguise?

Why is that?! Oh yes, and he loves italics, which pop up all over the place, not always readily identifiable with one particular character. CHAPTER 4 The practically unknown reviewer picked up her copy of Inferno by Dan Brown, scanning its mysterious cover with the picture of the sage she now knew to be internationally famous poet Dante c.

His Divine Comedy , originally called La Comedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Gad, I love Wikipedia. She remembered that bestselling author Dan Brown frequently recaps the previous action near the beginning of a chapter, and that his bestselling prose is scattered with information dumps so densely constituted that they resemble the excreta of the famed Friesian horse, a creature mentioned in the bestselling novel Inferno. She recalled that Robert Langdon, granite-jawed Harvard professor of symbology and art historian specializing in iconography, wakes up in Florence to find that he remembers nothing, people are apparently trying to kill him, and he is carrying a suggestively shaped container that contains a mysterious object.

He is helped by pretty blonde ponytailed genius-IQd Sienna Brooks, who has the hots for him. And his confused memories recall a mysterious silver-haired attractive older woman who wants him to seek and find, and who undoubtedly will have the hots for him too. Meanwhile, on the mysterious ship The Mendacium, facilitator Knowlton has just watched a video that is more terrifying than the most terrifying thing you can possibly imagine.

Dan Brown is fond of making his characters react with terror in the hope that the reader will also be terrified? What is this book?! As they pass various monuments, Langdon recalls large indigestible lumps of architectural and historical detail. As the story lumbers to its end it picks up speed, with one quite nice bit of misdirection but otherwise the usual thriller fare of all the important stuff being packed into the last few pages so that the reader feels like a lot went on. And then there was the ending.

The reviewer ran her hands over the shiny cover of the bestselling novel Inferno by Dan Brown. She recalled that Langdon rides off smugly into the sunset of a brand new world without any thought for the social, economic, and religious consequences of what just happened. Not to mention the fact that a small bunch of white people take it upon themselves to re-engineer the fate of mankind without consulting the rest of the world.

Sensing it was time to wrap up her interminable review, there was one thought that still haunted her. And that, thought the reviewer, is why Dan Brown is the novelist of the future. Sensing it was time, really, to revert to a state of denial before that last thought took hold in her brain, the reviewer took one last look at the cover of the bestselling novel Inferno and sighed.

I can return it to the library and forget this ever happened. View all 84 comments. Or something. The only thing surprising is that Langdon continues to be dumbfounded when he finds messages from shadowy cabals hidden in the pockets of his Harris Tweed.

Unfortunately, the book reads as part dressed-up travelogue, part Wikipedia entry. On the plus side, much of the discussion is about Florence, one of my favorite cities. It is rather. Picture hidden in spoiler because NSFW. Not safe for anybody really. The real disappointment, though, is in the lost opportunity.

A Dante-inspired thriller has a lot of possibilities, but this novel is strangely bloodless. Brown has so much potential material, with the city of Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medici, and Savonarola. What he comes up with, though, is bland and forgettable. I don't think anyone reads Dan Brown's books expecting literary masterpieces, but a little excitement and unpredictability wouldn't hurt anyone.

I did read, though, that they locked the translators for this book in a secret bunker in Milan while they toiled at their work. Pivotal to the story. View all 51 comments. Jan 17, Deska rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed this book. Thou personally I think it's a bit different than the other previous three books. The other three books have similarities in having a story plot that creating a really blur line between history and fiction.

But in this fourth book, the history is like the inspiration of the fiction story, but I still liked it and gave it 3. I really enjoyed the thrill and excitement of Langdon adventure. And as a former international security student, I have an understanding re I really enjoyed this book. And as a former international security student, I have an understanding regarding on security threats and this book is really interesting especially in that part.

We all know about biological weapon and act of terrorism, but this book offers something that I haven't thought about before regarding on that issue. And it is so exciting. Overall, it is such an enjoyable read and very easy to digest. Thou it's not amazing, but still worth to read. That one was a major fail of the series.. Hope it'll be amazing.. View all 71 comments. Jul 14, Willow rated it it was ok. This is my first Dan Brown book and what can I say I was kind of shocked.

Otherwise, why would he be so popular? And I rather like cheesy books. This one had a condescending tone though that grated on my nerves and sapped all the fun right out of the story.

It was a tedious read. Everybody talks and thinks alike. Their dialogue has no individuality. There are no intricate, personality conflicts. Then there are the endless info dumps. Brown gives a Humanities lecture for every museum Langdon goes to even when his characters are running for their lives. My God! At his side, Sienna covered her mouth and took a tentative step forward, clearly entranced by what she was seeing.

The scene projected was a grim oil painting of human suffering—thousands of souls undergoing wretched tortures in various levels of hell. The underworld was portrayed as a cutaway across section of the earth into which plunged a cavernous funnel-shaped pit of unfathomable depth. This pit of hell was divided into descending terraces of increasing misery, each level populated by tormented sinners of every kind. Dark, grim, and terrifying … Botticelli had crafted his Map of Hell with a depressing palate of reds, sepias, and browns.

The people are teeny weeny! How could Langdon and Sienna even see them? They better not be, damn it! The plot is probably the best part of this book. There are so many plot holes though, it was like a sponge. His writing is terrible.

He tells instead of shows. He repeats everything at least twice, sometimes three or four times. And his story starts up an interesting conversation about population and the apocalypse, but Brown never gives it any real thought. The ending was so sanctimonious and preachy, I wanted to toss the book across the room. View all 86 comments. A film adaptation was released in the United States on October 28, Harvard professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last few days.

He last remembers walking on the Harvard campus, but he quickly realizes that he is now in Florence, Italy. Sienna Brooks, one of the doctors tending to him, reveals that he is suffering from amnesia. When Vayentha, a female assassin, shows up in the hospital and kills Dr. Marconi, Brooks helps Langdon escape, and they flee to her apartment. View all 6 comments. Aaron turned on his computer and opened it to Goodreads.

It was time. He looked around to be sure he was alone, and started writing He had to be quick about it. They could be here at any minute, and he had to hurry. He had to make sure he went fast, because of the time constrain Aaron turned on his computer and opened it to Goodreads. He had to make sure he went fast, because of the time constraints. Speed was of the utmost importance. While it was true that he had enjoyed the facts listed in the book, he wasn't sure this was enough to warrant a good review.

Again, to be clear, no one else was around. He was alone and talking to himself. She was a loyal disciple of Zobrist until she reads his last letter and decided to get his new technology before it can fall into the wrong hands. She believes the World Health Organization will cooperate with other government agencies to use Zobrist's new virus for weapons.

She uses The Consortium and Robert to follow the Map of Hell and get to ground zero before everyone else, but she realizes that Zobrist had set off a futile search as he released his virus well beforehand.

He used fake eyebrows and a mustache to pretend to be Dr. Marconi at the beginning of the novel. Vayentha : The Consortium's agent in Florence with orders to follow Langdon. She is killed by Sienna in the Palazzo Vecchio. Consortium's provost : The head of The Consortium and the secondary antagonist. He tries to accomplish Zobrist's wishes by securing the location of the virus from Langdon and Sinskey and to divulge a video Zobrist made before his death to the media. When he learns that he was helping Zobrist in a bioterrorist attack, he helps the World Health Organization to find the cure despite being arrested at the end of the novel.

She is pregnant with her first child. He succumbs to a heart attack prior to the events of the novel. Mark's basilica in Venice. Slideshow [ ]. Florence, with the Badia Fiorentina to the left and the Florence Cathedral to the right. Skyline photo of the Badia Fiorentina, Florence. Bargello Palace, Florence.

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