Sunday, May 26, 2013

Inferno, Dan Brown's latest installment of Robert Langdon



Just finished reading the newest installment of the Robert Langdon saga. Dan Brown enjoys jerking the rug out from you too much. I am not sure if his books are more believable than those within the 39 Clues/Cahills v. Vespers  canon.
Not exactly sure why I bother reading Brown's books since I find everything about them rather impossible to read.
I mean, Prof. Langdon is a "genius," but yet he manages to do very stupid, naive things, regularly. At least the Cahill kids are KIDS, thus too young to be truly cynical
Anyways, I guess I read them for the same reasons I read Block, for I find myself thinking the same thing... WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID! They're good to make you think... all you have to do is turn pages unlike a Sudoku puzzle that requires you to correctly place numbers within a grid.
Regardless, it's not a bad book in the grand scheme of things. I generally like stuff relating to Medieval times and this has tons. Not a big art history fan, but that's different matter for another day.
My brain hurts.

Spoiler: Sienna Brooks is FS-2080, also known as Bertrand Zobrist's LOVER! When you read chapter 66, you are set up to think that the provost spoke with FS-2080 in chapter 65 since he seemingly contacts FS-2080 but rather he contacts an actor known as Dr. Ferris who previously played the role of the Italian Dr. Marconi. Yes, I said ACTOR! The Consortium is a lot like the group that was depicted in the David Fincher's 1997 film: The Game, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. They seem to kill people and such but they don't. They are masters of illusion to create alibis and such. This actor has been working with Sienna from the very beginning, and the provost finds his mentioning of the plague discussion as troublesome given the 9 minute video left to be given to the media the following day. By the way, Sienna Brooks is the only murderer in the book! The "plague" that is being tracked down has already been released and doesn't kill people, just makes 1/3 of those in contact with it sterile thus creating a means to control the population with out making mounds of condoms in Africa. In conclusion: If you got excited by the butt sex depicted in Chapter 66, then you were mistaken. Bertrand Zobrist is not gay. If you felt great when the assassin Vayentha died, then you are a sick person.

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