Origin
I felt like I had reached the saturation point of reading Dan Brown. I thought of reading Digital Fortress for a change, but I wanted to complete the Robert Langdon Series.
Origin was a breath of fresh air. Although it followed the same fucking formula, it dealt with a new kind of thing, a quite new one for our beloved symbologist. The story starts with Robert Langdon’s fascination about the modern art and he didn’t like it more than he liked the ancient artist (especially the renaissance artists)
I can say this book is the decent Dan Brown book because it had all the Dan Brown elements upgraded. The mystery in this book was top notch and it defined the edge of the seat thriller. But the problem in reading this book was not found within the book. I would say the problem had occurred within myself.
I felt like I had attained the saturation point of the writing style of Dan Brown. I couldn’t able to find anything interesting from the book. May be, it’s the book. May be, it’s me. I am not sure anymore.
I usually write notes about the book I read at the end of every sitting. But this was the only Dan Brown book I didn’t feel like anything to write. To top it off, the ending of the book was once again resonated the Agnostic Dan Brown rather than my beloved Atheist Dan Brown. He Just uses Atheism as a tool to express his Atheistic Views but, the more emotionally built elements of the novel were mostly revolving around the religion and its significance.
In this book, the final reveal didn’t affect me much. It felt like a terminator movie. But the scientific explanation and the message delivered by the Atheist character Edmond Kirsch was breath taking when I think about it. It too had an Inferno-like message, but my already saturated mind didn’t get excited as it was supposed to.
After I finished the book, I came to know that there was a Tamil translation available for this book. I got so excited about the fact that it was written in Tamil which is my language.
I watched the 3 movie adaptations of Dan Brown books after reading the Origin. I somehow liked the A&D adaptation better. Although all the movies were tailored for the screen, I shouldn’t except them to follow the same plot as the novel. But the movie adaptation of the book, Inferno, was disastrous. They left out the one good thing I liked about the book. They fucking left out the climax and even went on to bring back Robert Langdon’s ex-girlfriend or something.
Just one more book to go to finish the Dan Brown series. I just need to read the Digital Fortress and I would have been completed my Dan Brown streak. But unfortunately, I failed. ☹
Procrastination hit me combined with numbness. A week-long numbness to be precise. It was the last week.
September 5, 2020
It’s a wonderful Saturday morning. Yesterday I watched the first episode of season 2 of The Boys. At the start of this blog, my friend (an enemy too) had reviewed the season 1 of the Boys in one of his posts of this blog. Now I am watching the second season of the show. From here on out, I am planning on watching Supernatural TV show with my friend Uzumaki.
If I like this show, then it would the biggest marathon I have ever had in my life. The longest show I have ever watched (or currently watching) is one piece. I had watched the 600 episodes of OP (Later on I watched on a weekly episode since I caught with the anime at that time) and it was a short marathon when I compare it with Supernatural.
For the next two months, I am planning to watch Supernatural and after that I am planning to watch Gintama.
So, I need to read the books parallelly between these two TV series and anime Marathon.
Marathons aside, it was a fun journey of 1 month with Dan Brown. I have never read 6 books in a month before. Still I need to read one more book of Dan Brown.
I am sure I will read it sooner! Let’s hope!
SPOILERS OF INFERNO
Inferno
contrapposto.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis
who is Constantinople?
shime waza
Franz Liszt’s most famous works—the Dante Symphony—an entire composition inspired by Dante’s descent into and return from hell.
First of all, this was my least favourite of Robert Langdon so far. Till one of book to go, I am sure that this will be my least favourite in Robert Langdon books.
The premise was intriguing at the beginning of this book and as the mysteries unfolded, I kinda lost interest in this book.
Also, I found out the ultimate twist of Dan Brown in this book and the way he made the deception was funny and it didnt stick with me.
Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital with an amnesia. A doctor named Seinna Brooks helps him when he was almost got killed by an assassin. They both (as in all Dan Brown Books) flee together to find the answers and mysteries revolving around them of their current predicament.
I'll try to recollect my memories of this book now That I have finished reading it.
[02:12 23-08-2020]
Robert founds a mysterious capsuled like container in his packet and soon he finds it to be a projector which reveals Botticelli’s Map of Hell. This is a painting which had got inspirations from Dante Alligheri's Divine Comedy (A book which tells about the story of Dante's journey through Hell -> Purgatory -> and finally Heaven. He faces a lot of hurdles in the hell and moves forward each hurdle with the helpof his lover, unfortunately married to another guy). Although this painting has been modified. The 9 gates of hell were reaaranged (not in order according to the Divine comedy) and the painting bored a word Catrovacer in each gate. He rearranges this mysterious word in accordance to the original order of those 9 gates in the Divine comedy and derives a new word that says Cerca trova which means Seek and find. Suddenly Robert has a revelation and tells Seinna that this word is engraved in the painting done by an old italian dude called Vasari (Very Sorry..) situated in Palazzo Vecchio . I am not sure about this point but, in that painting, Robert finds that says something about seeing the truth through the eyes of the death (which was also Robert got in his nightmare) and decides to see the Dante's dead mask. There was a twist. The mask was not found and Robert had stolen it (which Robert was not aware because he was in Amnesia DUH!) Then he watches the video survillence and fonds out he and his friend stole the mask and his friend has that mask. He calls him finding that he was dead by having stroke and he gave him a clue before he dies. As per the clue, (Paradise Twenty-five )(Paradise 25 of the Divine Comedy says something about the location of Dante;s Baptism Point) Robert and Sienna went to a baptism point where Dante had his Baptism and founds the mask. Robert finds 7Ps in the forehead which means to erase the 7 deadly sins. This made the duo to clean the forehead and it revelead a spiraling phrases of poem from the Divine comedy. The rest of the story involves deciphering the poem and TBH, I didnt like it.
It was not until the last moment, I thought of giving up the book even. But, in the finale, this book delievered a message that I was stunned to the core. It gave a bizarre solution for Human Population control. I am not a bif fan of coincidences but, right now, the world was in a pandemic and I read a book written by Periyar where theres a segment which horrifically justifies birth control.
This book touched both the above controversies and I was in awe when I finished this book.
SPOILERS OF ORIGIN
The Origin
feigning - Pretending with intention to deceive
I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certainthat the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metalrod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hearperfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.
Shortest chapter of all Dan Brown's books - Chapter 4
“In times of violence, nothing comforts like the hand of God.
400th page
I really liked this book except that this too is trying to make me an agnostic. It's not like this book is preaching me to become an agnostic but it dictates the perspective of an agnostic person. And, I feel like my temperament is sliding towards agnosticism. 😐
I fucking finisheeddddd itttttt!!!
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