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Average rating3.6
I like the pace of Dan Brown novels. Thought provoking as well. God does not exist!
Meh. Predictable. Don't waste your time unless you need total brain fluff.
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Meh. Predictable. Don't waste your time unless you need total brain fluff.
En esta obra Dan Brown vuelve a aplicar su fórmula repetitiva en las historias de Robert Langdon, aunque la historia es bastante floja, desenvuelve bastante bien la temática del ateísmo, la religión y la ciencia.
You'll race to the end and then ponder what you read.
I love the pace of Dan Brown books and each time I read one I spend days afterwards reading about art and history. Most have filled me with wonder about our past, but this one has filled me with wonder about our future.
So disappointing. Gone is the interwoven magic of The Da Vinci Code, replaced by an unbelievable miasma of current-event headlines (Uber! Self-driving cars! AI!), fall-flat “shockers” that aren't shocking at all, and an utterly formulaic approach to suspense and mystery.
When you learn the plot device 90% in and it doesn't invite critical thought at all, you know you have a problem.
Farewell, Mr. Langdon; I'm moving on to greener pastures.
So I am a bad friend, my best friends birthday was October 5th and I had it linked it to the release of this book. I am one of those people who truly looks forward to Dan Brown novels and inhales them in a day or so. This one does not disappoint. The locations are beautifully described, the story line is true to Dan Brown books, short chapters that keep you turning pages, an of course an ending YOU DONT SEE COMING!
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin. —ANTONI GAUDÍ
There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully
Entropy is just a fancy way of saying: things fall apart.
We live in an entropic universe,” she said, “a world whose physical laws randomize, not organize.
“Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order. These pockets are structures that escalate the chaos of a system, and they thereby increase entropy.”
To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.
May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.
Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.
Merged review:
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin. —ANTONI GAUDÍ
There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully
Entropy is just a fancy way of saying: things fall apart.
We live in an entropic universe,” she said, “a world whose physical laws randomize, not organize.
“Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order. These pockets are structures that escalate the chaos of a system, and they thereby increase entropy.”
To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.
May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.
Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.
A fun enough read except for the part in the middle that felt like a chapter-long Tesla commercial. That, and when the book spends the first 80% teasing a big reveal and the reveal turns out to be an uninspired let down, you begin to wonder if you really liked the first 80%.