I was so looking forward to this book. I loved his three other books, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. So as soon as it was available for Kindle, I downloaded it and began to read. Oh gentle readers, I was so disappointed. As I lay out the structure and plot, you'll get a better idea of why I say I was disappointed but then again, you may say, horse hockey. Sounds like a fine read to me. In my humble opinion, this book is 1/2 art history, 1/4 travelogue and 1/4 plot. Let's start with plot. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor extraordinaire, specialist in iconography or as he calls it, symbology. Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, purportedly having been shot at, and in an amnesiac state. Read more...
Showing posts with label Dante's Inferno. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dante's Inferno. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Dan Brown's Latest: An Italian Travel Guide AKA "Inferno"
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I was so looking forward to this book. I loved his three other books, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. So as soon as it was available for Kindle, I downloaded it and began to read. Oh gentle readers, I was so disappointed. As I lay out the structure and plot, you'll get a better idea of why I say I was disappointed but then again, you may say, horse hockey. Sounds like a fine read to me. In my humble opinion, this book is 1/2 art history, 1/4 travelogue and 1/4 plot. Let's start with plot. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor extraordinaire, specialist in iconography or as he calls it, symbology. Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, purportedly having been shot at, and in an amnesiac state. Read more...
I was so looking forward to this book. I loved his three other books, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. So as soon as it was available for Kindle, I downloaded it and began to read. Oh gentle readers, I was so disappointed. As I lay out the structure and plot, you'll get a better idea of why I say I was disappointed but then again, you may say, horse hockey. Sounds like a fine read to me. In my humble opinion, this book is 1/2 art history, 1/4 travelogue and 1/4 plot. Let's start with plot. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor extraordinaire, specialist in iconography or as he calls it, symbology. Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, purportedly having been shot at, and in an amnesiac state. Read more...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel: A Review
Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s 2002 Man Booker prize winner, is one of my all time favorite novels. I remember that I asked my book club to read it because I was so enthralled with it. Half of them hated it and the other half, like me, loved it. There seems to be the same split for Martel’s newest novel or novella (it’s a mere 197 pages), Beatrice and Virgil. Let me digress a minute. One of the local high schools had Life of Pi on their summer reading list. A friend of mine, whose son attends this HS, asked me if I could help him understand the novel. The first thing I said to him is that in order to understand Pi you have to suspend your disbelief in what is happening in order for you to believe in what is happening. Huh? 
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