Friday, September 18, 2015

'Inferno' by Dan Brown.

I'd like to thank Dan Brown for all the adventures involving mystery, smart people and pieces of art, that I've been through so far. Seriously, how great are books when there's all that?! I love Dan Brown's writing. It's easy going, entertaining, funny. It grips you so tight you can't do anything else in your life, except reading those freaking books!
I've been craving to read Inferno for a few months, and I was planning on buying it when my mother's co-worker gave it to me and said I didn't even have to give it back if I wanted to keep it! HOW COOL?! Just when I started reading it, I caught a cold or something, and I then had a terrible fever. So I obviously had to lie down. Which I did. And what can you do when you have to lie down because you feel so crappy you can't really move? You read. And I dived into Inferno and had been reading it through all my illness period. Thanks to the fever I felt light headed and a bit out of this world, so the reading experience I had with this book was even better than I expected (not that I'm happy about a fever or anything, but looking back I felt pretty good mentally). Not to say that whenever I pick up this book now, I feel that warmth and calmness I felt back when I was reading it lying in my bed.
Inferno is another book about Robert Langdon, and let me just say this character is AMAZING. I don't even know why, but I love him so very much! So the story follows Robert in yet another adventure involving a piece of art (which is 'Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri). The craziest thing about this adventure though is that Langdon wakes up in Italy, and he doesn't remember a thing that happened to him in a past few days. His life is suddenly being threatened by a woman he's never met before, and saving his ass here is Sienna Brooks, who becomes his companion throughout the book. Running from every armed person possible, solving clues and trying to find out why he is being hunted by so many people, Robert Langdon learns that there's a dangerous virus, threatening to decrease the population of the Earth hidden somewhere in Istanbul. And of course, he is in the middle of all that jazz, needing to find the virus and save the World.
I'm a sucker for all this travelling and solving clues thing, so I obviously love every Dan Brown's book.
I have only one warning about this one, though: if you have an anxiety disorder, it can be very hard not to panic at some point throughout the reading process. Because this whole thing about the Earth being overpopulated and the resources diminishing and all that...it can be pretty terrifying if you think about it. So...yeah. I freaked out a bit.
All in all, the book is amazing, as every other Brown's book. Maybe even better than a couple of his other ones. Although, nothing can ever beat The Da Vinci Code for me ;)
Also, I'd like to say (no spoilers) that despite the THING about Sienna Brook she still is a very good and likable character. I really liked her and their chemistry with Professor Langdon ;)

Happy to announce for those who don't know, that the movie will be coming out some time in 2016. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon as usual, obviously. And charming Sienna Miller will be played by one of my favourite actresses - Felicity Jones! No need to say, how excited I am!!
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