#INFERNO DAN BROWN SYNOPSIS CODE#

But unlike Ludlum's hero, Langdon is not confused about whether he is on the right side. He is suffering from amnesia, ala Jason Bourne. The story runs thus: Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a splitting headache. The bodies are 'writhing in agony' and Langdon can 'hear the mournful cries of human suffering echoing across the water.' That is just the first page. For a thriller, the book is too prosaic in the first half and if it is contending to be a literary work it contains outrageously atrocious language - the river has 'churning waters' and there is a 'sea of corpses' at the feet of ' a veiled woman'.

It is just infuriating to read a work that is not neatly filed into a specific shelf of the library. But then, the critic's job is not to heavily penalise the writer for writing in a particular genre. If it weren't for the overt and blatantly artless connections made between the two texts, Dan Brown's Inferno, and Dante Alighieri's Inferno, there would be little point to Dan Brown's novel at all. Inferno takes a completely tangential route, and deals within the frameworks of another classical narrative, and completely misses the goals of a thriller: to keep the reader insatiably flipping pages. Meanwhile, The Lost Symbol read like an elaborate apology for the amount of damage Brown dealt to the Freemasons' image.

#INFERNO DAN BROWN SYNOPSIS CODE#

As a thriller, it is hard to top the bestselling The Da Vinci Code for both plot and sales. Inferno does not live up to the standard set by the first two novels in the Robert Langdon series, which began with Angels and Demons.

But by that time it is too little, too late. Midway through this infernally boring novel, Dan Brown finally pulls a fast one on the reader, and the story picks up.

Inferno dan brown synopsis