Inferno
Ratings540
Average rating3.6
3 stars because the twists at the end genuinely surprised me. I also enjoy the descriptions of historical art and architecture. But overall, meh.
Me gusta la idea central que discurre a lo largo del libro (control del volúmen de masa poblacional para evitar la extinción por aglomeración y agotamiento de recursos), pero no me terminó de convencer el proceso de “Sucede A, luego Langdon tiene un momento de iluminación místico donde nos da detalles innecesarios que revelan todo lo que el autos investigó acerca de Dante/Florencia y corre hasta el punto B esquivando policías. Luego sucede B, y se repite el proceso”. Sin embargo, el giro argumental que hay antes de terminar el libro si está muy bien conseguido y fue de mi agrado. El asunto es pasar la primera mitad, que parece escrita por el Capitán Obvio. Es una lectura interesante de todas formas.
No real evil protagonist and red herring galore. At least this book makes me really want to visit Florence and Istanbul.
Not the best book ever, but not the worst either. The audiobook held my attention well enough for me to want to get to the end, but it was pulpy enough for me to zone out when concentrating on say reading ingredients labels in the supermarket and not have to skip back to catch up on what I'd missed. If you've read Dan Brown's novels before, you know what to expect, and it delivers. The interesting twist that makes this different from the others is Langon's amnesia, and so he's solving a puzzle that he's already solved! It's also, as always with Dan Brown, very well researched and informative. I knew nothing of Dante or his Inferno. Now I know a little.
Fantastico! ~ Anti bipolarità bene-male.
Con questo libro Dan Brown si riconferma uno dei migliori autori contemporanei!
Descrizioni stupende (immagino soprattutto per gli stranieri cosa siano quelle descrizioni di Firenze e Venezia!), personaggi controversi ed ottimi. E la trama! Fantastica! Colpi di scena permettono di arrivare fino alla fine se non con il fiato sospeso, sicuramente con delle certezze che non sono tali!
Mi sono divertita...e ho riflettuto molto. ♥
hmm...well...not the best book I've ever read. But then I don't read Dan Brown books looking for earth shattering literature. And not the best thriller I've ever read. (I read a lot of thrillers) And not even the best Dan Brown book I've read (at least it's not the hot mess Lost Symbol was). There were thrilling scenes, some great chases (always a requirement in a good thriller) and some twists I didn't see coming. The biggest problem was that there was too much exposition. Seriously. Stop telling me everything and anything you think I need to know and let me figure it out for myself by showing me the clues. There were also a few moments that came dangerously close to being deus ex machina moments. Explanations were to simple or too glossed over i.e. Sinskey being drugged.
But I have to give Mr Brown credit. The man does his research. In spades. I almost didn't feel the need to google locations, landmarks, etc but I as usual with the Langdon series I did anyway. Just to see how extremely accurate the descriptions really were.
Predictable. I'm convinced that Dan Brown thinks he has a formula, and that every adventure he sends Langdon on will follow it - only it's not a perfect formula. This time, the history and insight to art and symbolism is eclipsed by the twists and turns that you can see coming. By page 200 you're hoping it ends or that the catastrophe Langdon is trying to save the world from - will actually kill him and Brown's formula off.
Half of the book is not a Thriller but a History book, which can bore you to death if your not into italian culture/history. The story itself is, partly, far fetched and artificially stretched to keep you interested in the next chapter, which works to some extend. Nothing is revealed for 80% of the book and then everything is laid open in 2 chapters. At the last chapters i was seriously annoyed by the book. If you are not into Dan Brown and/or italian history, dont read it, its a waste of your time.
P.S. I am wondering how much money Dan Brown got from Apple.
Really a 3.5 out of 5. Not my favorite book by Dan Brown, seemed to drag at times but it did give me a lot to think about.
Pretty cool pretty cool...
Em todos os livros a reviravolta é o melhor dos acontecimentos e o fato de ele induzir o leitor a acreditar piamente que certa pessoa é o responsável por erros/vilões e ser outra pessoa mais impensável...
Muito bom, embora cansativo em alguns momentos é uma leitura altamente recomendada !
4.5/5 stars
Enjoyable read; scary, and presumably true, prediction of the future of the human race.
I really don't know how to feel about this... I liked that it was somewhat different that the previous Robert Langdon books, but it's still not what I wanted. It was definitely a quick and entertaining as to be expected with a Dan Brown book, I just wish there was something more to it...
I apologize that nothing in the above text even makes sense. D:
Rubbish. If not for all the information about art and history it would a complete waste of time.
Another great read in the Dan Brown tradition with lots of plot twists, expository conversation and action.
totally unlike dan brown's othe books...still don't understand why drag dante and ancient history into a medical thriller like this one....
Inferno è il sesto romanzo thriller dello scrittore Dan Brown, pubblicato il 14 maggio 2013 in contemporanea in quasi tutto il mondo. Protagonista ancora una volta il professor Robert Langdon, ormai arrivato ad essere una sorta di novello “Indiana Jones”, visto tutte le avventure che ha dovuto affrontare nel corso di tutti i libri incentrati sulla sua figura.
Dunque diciamo subito che i fasti del “Codice” sono ormai appannati e lontani, allontanati pagina dopo pagina da tutte le storie che sono seguite. Perchè? E' presto detto: la storia è sempre uguale, si ripete nel tempo e alla fine, stanca. Anche se il ritmo è sempre ben sostenuto e l'ambientazione storica/artistica, resa ottimamente, riuscendo ad esaltare come sempre le nostre bellezze artistiche italiane, la nostra storia così piena di episodi, a volte misteriosi.
Un riassunto di qualsiasi libro di Dan Brown con protagonista il professo Langdon è sostanzialmente la seguente: il nostro caro esperto di simbolismo viene chiamato nel bel mezzo della notte. Qualcuno di molto potente, in relazione con le autorità (di vario tipo), ha bisogno della sua esperienza che solo il nostro protagonista è in grado di fornire. Un personaggio molto noto ed influente è morto ed ha iniziato una catena di eventi che avranno conseguenze catastrofiche se non viene interrotta. Le autorità hanno bisogno dell'esimio professore per risolvere un enigma che altri hanno lasciato sotto forma di simboli poco prima di morire, dunque abbiamo qualche indizio nebuloso per risolvere l'arcano, il tutto in un lasso di tempo molto breve, che porta ovviamente alla possibile distruzione di tutto il genere umano. Non manca l'organizzazione segreta che ha compiti poco chiari, così come l'antagonista o i vari co-protagonisti di Langdon. Mentre il nostro famoso simbolista cerca di risolvere il rompicapo viene affiancato da una giovane, bella e intelligente donna per ragioni collegate in qualche modo con l'uomo morto ed il mistero. Negli ultimi capitoli del libro si scopre che i vari attori dello spettacolo si conoscevano quasi tutti fin dall'inizio è il povero Robert è stato manipolato per tutto il tempo! Il libro si conclude con l'antagonista che fallisce, ma riuscendo comunque a fare qualcosa, a non perdere del tutto. Il lettore a questo punto si domanda se il cattivo era veramente cattivo, oppure se era votato al bene dell'umanità e nessuno lo ha capito veramente.
Questo è il canovaccio che si ripete in ogni libro. Bello per il primo, apprezzabile per il secondo, ma arrivati al quarto, tutto sa di già letto e che tu ci metta Dante con la “Divina Commedia”, l'Opus Dei cattivo e il Vaticano o Leonardo da Vinci, poco importa. Detto questo, non si può però dire che la lettura del libro non scorra velocemente o annoiando il lettore, i richiami alla nostra storia, alle opere d'arte citate, meritano (se non lo si è già fatto) una visita di persona, o almeno un'occhiata su Google. Dunque esiste comunque un divertimento nel proseguo della lettura e un piccolo approfondimento personale se si vuole.
Però non si possono propinare quattro libri tutti uguali e pretendere che la gente continui a divertirsi o a stupirsi come per il primo, caro Dan Brown, ti devi inventare qualcosa di nuovo, anche perchè, diciamolo chiaramente, dopo il “Codice”, non è che tu sia riuscito a entusiasmare, a provocare, così tanto. Il tutto, è stato un godere passivo, di quella prima storia. Io mi sono molto divertito nella lettura della tua opera più famosa (ben sapendo che hai scritto un romanzo di fantasia e non un saggio come molti hanno travisato), ma da lì è stata una continua discesa.
Basta adesso, volta pagina, lascia stare il professor Langdon per un po' e sforzati d'inventarti qualcosa di nuovo.
Dan Brown revolutionised the writing world with The Da Vinci Code, his clever use of the hidden meanings behind old works of art was inspired, and a professor trying to work out the hidden codes was exciting. Now 4 books in and the magic is beginning to lose its sparkle.
The joy of reading Da Vinci Code was that the works of art referenced were renowned and well known - instantly you could recall them and see what Langdon was seeing. In Inferno the references are more obscure and unless you are intimately acquainted with Florence you may find yourself - as I did - googling your way through the book looking for pictures just so you can visualise what is happening and get the mood of the book. Now this is all very well if you had to do it say once a chapter but it was literally every few pages, sometimes more than once a page. That lost it's appeal quickly.
If this were Inferno's only flaw it could be forgiven but it's just so darn confusing. By the time of the big climax I literally was lost in who was who, who chased who when and what for, what was real and what was smoke and mirrors and i really didn't care.
And the ending - I don't want to give anything away but how does Brown move on from it. To say in a later book it was all put right and everything is now okay is to trivialise the message but to not do so would mean writing in a world which is not real.
it's not worth it's hardback price, paperback maybe. It did have a few gripping moments but overall it was very very tedious and was only worthy of being thrown on an Inferno.
Eén raad: verspil tijd noch geld aan deze rotzooi. Sla zelfs dit stuk over, meer dan “dat zijn een paar uur die ik ook nooit meer terugkrijg” zou ik er eigenlijk niet over moeten zeggen.
Zoals Stephen Colbert onlangs zei: “I love your books. I love the rage they fill me with.” Een paar voorbeelden! Een bijzonder intelligent mens bekijkt een video waar het over Malthus gaat:
Knowlton paused the video. The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation.
You don't say
(dringend!)
Langdon returned his focus to the iPhone, and within seconds was able to pull up a link to a digital offering of The Divine Comedy— freely accessible because it was in the public domain. When the page opened precisely to Canto 25, he had to admit he was impressed with the technology. I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.
Uuuurgh
The poem was disturbing and macabre, and hard to decipher. Use of the words doge and lagoon confirmed for Langdon beyond any doubt that the poem was indeed referencing Venice—a unique Italian water-world city made up of hundreds of interconnected lagoons and ruled for centuries by a Venetian head of state known as a doge.
Nooo, really?
Da Vinci Code
min of meer
Inferno?
dei ex machina
For the majority of this book, I hovered around a 3 or 3.5 star rating. It was an entertaining thriller, full of twists, transformations, and “didn't-see-that-coming” moments. There wasn't anything inherently wrong with it; indeed, the overall tone was dark, exciting, and encouraged me to continue.What leaves me at 3 stars is the sad realization that after such a monumental effort, this is not a book that belongs in the Robert Langdon mythos.The book's premise - wherein Professor Langdon is called upon to save the world from the machinations of a madman (in this case, one fueled by a deep understanding of and dedication to Dante's [b:Inferno 15645 Inferno (The Divine Comedy, #1) Dante Alighieri http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333579470s/15645.jpg 2377563]) - fits. This is what we expect from a Langdon story and early on, it delivers. There is a sense that the world of Dante will permeate the story in profoundly macabre ways.Unfortunately, that premise slowly disappears. Chase scenes ensue ad nauseam, stopping only to overwhelm the reader with every historical fact about the European environment in which Landon is running (a mechanism that, although it served Brown well in [b:Angels & Demons 960 Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Dan Brown http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1303390735s/960.jpg 3338963] and [b:The Da Vinci Code 968 The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Dan Brown http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1303252999s/968.jpg 2982101], is overplayed here). Chapters stream by and, in my case, left me with a sense of, “Well, okay - but when are we getting to the good stuff?”What is the “good stuff”, you ask? One needs only to look at the previous three Landon novels for inspiration. In all three, Dan Brown took his time to weave in the types of historical mystery that hover between ludicrous and profoundly possible. These elements made the expected thriller/chase scenes more interesting: the race fulfilled the desire to find clues, solve puzzles, and put together astounding theories. There was a sense of adventure, conspiracy, and higher meaning.Inferno only has an inkling of that. As someone who has read and enjoyed [b:The Divine Comedy 6656 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320552051s/6656.jpg 809248], I was thrilled by the idea of Robert Landon descending into Dante's world and watching the visions of Inferno permeate that adventure. It just didn't happen. Elements of Dante, his life, his poetry, and the higher meaning exposed by his philosophies were only briefly touched on. At times, it seemed as though Dan Brown, desiring to have an archetypal “historical great work” to fit into a Langdon adventure, somewhat haphazardly settled on Inferno. It's as if Brown took his trademark thriller ingredients, tossed them into a blender, and in the middle of the process, jammed in a few pages of Inferno. The concoction just isn't satisfying.As the book hurtles towards its conclusion, the aforementioned plot twists add some spice and excitement; unfortunately, by this point, it's too late: there simply isn't enough time left to recreate the magic that came so easily in the previous three Langdon books.And so, I give this 3 stars - I wanted an Angels & Demons-esque mystery, but instead, I got [b:Deception Point 976 Deception Point Dan Brown http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266447971s/976.jpg 3135896] with some neat art and architecture thrown in.