While Brown’s writing may never be as taut and muscular as, say, mystery maven Michael Connolly’s, he’s starting to understand that “less is more” in the realm of descriptive prose. Where Brown gave us endless character monologues of a dozen or so pages each, basically dumping all his research onto the page and letting the poor reader sift through the good, the bad, and the ugly, in “Inferno” Brown offers us strong dialogue, details, and back story in digestible chunks that don’t take readers out of the story. Where he’d use three weak adjectives to describe something in “The Lost Symbol,” in “Inferno” he’ll use one, and it’s the right one. It seems that Brown has been learning some things about writing prose. What’s to be said about “Inferno”? Compared with Brown’s last novel, the schlocky, silly, and badly constructed “The Lost Symbol,” his latest feels like a literary masterpiece. No matter what the critics might say about his overwriting, his overuse of clichés, his paper-thin characterizations, and his impenetrably murky plots, Brown sells tens of millions of copies of every historical thriller-mystery he writes.īrown isn’t just a novelist he’s a crossover pop culture sensation. Dan CourterĪssessing Dan Brown from a literary perspective seems almost beside the point. while also posing provocative questions about the role of cutting-edge science in our future.Dan Brown puts an amnesic Robert Langdon at a Florence hospital before sending him off to decipher clues in Dante’s writing and solve a mystery. Inferno is a sumptuously entertaining read-a novel that will captivate readers with the beauty of classical Italian art, history, and literature.
or to devastate it.In his most riveting and thought-provoking novel to date, Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again. Langdon quickly realizes that he is in possession of a series of disturbing codes created by a brilliant scientist-a genius whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written-Dante Alighieri’s dark epic poem The Inferno.Racing through such timeless locations as the Palazzo Vecchio, the Boboli Gardens, and the Duomo, Langdon and Brooks discover a network of hidden passageways and ancient secrets, as well as a terrifying new scientific paradigm that will be used either to vastly improve the quality of life on earth. or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings.Langdon’s world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever maneuvering saves his life.
Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there. Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night.
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