Post 3 Independent Reading
By Seth Gerus
For my third post, I'm again talking about my book Inferno by Dan Brown. This post won't be a summary of what I've read, but more of a rating of the book. So far, I have some thoughts on it.
First off, after the weird start, the book proceeds in normal fashion. Langdon escapes the bad guys, he meets new female sidekick, they find convenient clues left by bad guy, so on. But Brown usually makes this all interesting with history and cool action scenes. Not this time. Brown apparently was feeling lazy, so the chase involves way too much drama, confusing ideas, and just plain boring reading.
And then there's the ending. Just when everything kind of seems resolved, it turns out that the protagonists are in the wrong temple in the wrong country, that their allies are their enemies, and that the bad guy's plot wasn't even to kill anyone! Overall, Inferno was more of a shameless money grab by Brown than an actually good novel of his that was confusing, long, and frankly, boring. But hey, I got post 3 done.
Good review Seth. Very funny if I say so myself. I'd have to agree with you that this book was a major letdown in my opinion. I do like his other novels though.
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