Origin by Dan Brown (possible spoilers?)

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Origin by Dan Brown
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Probably my least fav Langdon story. You could see everything coming.

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I've always been a big Dan Brown fan.

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I actually felt there was very little running around compared to the other books.

There's less running around than in other books, but essentially, yes that's what the rest of the book is.

There's not as much nuzzle solving and mysteries, etc. as in prior ones. Just not as good of a story. It was ok, but not great

I think the book excelled at the build up and imagery of the major announcement. It did an awesome job setting the stage. The stuff in between wasn't as satisfying as his others. I liked the secret they we're uncovering, and it seems plausible. But, like others have said, I knew several things were going on before they said them including who was behind the scenes feeding the press and such.

Overall, both my wife and me kinda got a finale vibe for Robert Langdon in the end. We were wondering if this was his last book in the series.

Spoilers:

So in Angels and Demons, one of the scientist at CERN made a comment about how for years science has been proving God's to be false. And before long there only this that will remain is why are we here and what are our purpose and such.

In Origin, the whole book was based on answering those last remaining questions. Kinda wraps up the whole thing nicely, but maybe I am looking into it too deep. But even my wife thought the same thing.

My next post will be the angels and demons quote I mentioned. Tell me of you think it's a good tie in..

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Now, after reading this and Origins... I am convinced it would be his last Langdon book.

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Could be, it would tie in quite nicely. Also, the whole thing may be getting a bit stale. Ultimately, it will be about whether Brown just wants to keep cranking them out for the money. If he does, we could see a never ending saga of Robert Langdon.

I also found it a little absurd that all of these conspiracy nuts that were spending all night trying to connect dots and figure out what was going on never once focused on Langdon. I mean, at this point he's got to be a conspiracy nut wet dream. The dude has been involved in some earth shattering shite. If he's not already internationally famous, he would at least be famous in that community. But the whole book he's just mentioned as "the American Professor Robert Langdon" like he was some unknown entity. I thought that was dumb.

*SPOILERS FOR THIS BOOK AND ORIGIN (BY DAN BROWN) BELOW:



Also, the whole baby issue with Ambra and the Prince basically ignores the plot of Inferno. In this world where a full 1/3 of people are now infertile, it would be commonplace to ask anyone you're dating seriously whether or not they can have children. The fact that this wasn't done and that they invented some childhood event that caused her infertility is suspect. Would have at least made more sense for them to have her be infertile because of the Inferno virus. Would have been an easy thing to do and at least a tacit acknowledgment of the world that Brown has created.

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Inferno is one of my favorite books because the bad guy actually wins. It pissed me off the movie didn't have the balls to let the virus go off.

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+1

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My wife enjoyed the audiobook and wants me to listen to it. I’m not that intrigued really.

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I will say that the narrator is pretty good. While the story isn't as good as A&D or DaVinci, I was still entertained in large part because of the narrator.

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Probably my least fav Langdon story. You could see everything coming.

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I liked it more than Lost Symbol, but I agree with the second part.

He has gotten too formulaic. It wasn’t hard to see the final reveal coming. It was my initial suspicion and once you have that in mind, basically everything after confirms it.

Still an enjoyable read.