It brought me back to a memorable trip! Don't read it if you're hoping for a great work of fiction, but it well help a long plane ri An entertaining read. I must admit that one of the things that I did enjoy about it, was that we had recently been to Istanbul and had been in all the places that he described. I tended to skim over his apparent need to say the same thing over and over. At times I felt like the author was stretching it out by repeating things that he had just said only pages before. Nevertheless, Brown's fourth Robert Langdon novel has plenty to offer.moreĪn entertaining read. Conversely, while the action will keep readers turning pages, some may find his prose weak, as his storytelling relies heavily on his common tropes. Fans of Dan Brown won't be disappointed by this offering, as it has all the trappings of his previous works. In this review, you'll also find critical opinions of the novel as well as an evaluation of the novel's high and low points. Inferno navigates topics such as human overpopulation and social responsibility while Langdon tries to make sense of his visions and come to terms with the feeling that he is the only person who can save the world. This comprehensive review gives you a complete overview of the plot, key characters, and the author's writing style, both good and bad. Langdon must set off to put the pieces together. He has little time to collect his thoughts or make sense of the visions that tell him to "seek and find" before an assassin arrives. Langdon awakes in a Venice hospital with no memory of how he got there. Langdon faces a scientist bent on destruction: a scientist who finds inspiration in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. He has little time THIS IS NOT THE NOVEL, BUT A BOOK REVIEW.ĭan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon book, Inferno, throws the clever professor into another complex mystery with global consequences. Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon book, Inferno, throws the clever professor into another complex mystery with global consequences. But the real mystery is in the book's denouement and how Brown can possibly bring his hero back for more.THIS IS NOT THE NOVEL, BUT A BOOK REVIEW. It's hard not to appreciate a present day mega-selling thriller that attempts a refresher course in Italian literature and European history. Though the prose is fast-paced and sharp, the burdensome dialogue only serves plot and back story, and is interspersed with unfortunate attempts at folksy humor. Near the three-quarters point everything established gets upended and Brown, hoping to draw us in deeper, nearly drives us out. Suspension of disbelief is required as miraculous coincidences pile upon pure luck. Relying on a deceased villain's trail of clues threaded through the text of Dante's The Divine Comedy, the duo attempt to unravel the events leading up to Langdon's amnesia and thwart a global genocide scheme. Detailed tours of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul mean to establish setting, but instead bog down the story and border on showoffmanship. Awakening in a Florence hospital with no memory of the preceding 36 hours, Langdon and an attractive attending physician with an oversized intellect are immediately pursued by an ominous underground organization and the Italian police. The threat of world overpopulation is the latest assignment for Brown's art historian and accidental sleuth Robert Langdon.
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