Tag: Inferno

“Inferno”. It’s the name of my favourite Jon Pertwee “Doctor Who” story and, as such, I’m going to compare Dan Brown’s latest to one of the classic “Doctor Who” stories.

It’s not as good as “Inferno”.

Well, that was ambiguous.

Just like Dan Brown’s use of adjectives.

“Inferno”, of which I am now ten percent of the way through, has yet to draw me in to its story. Oh, we have the stock villain (or, from the looks of it, two stock villains), the daring damsel and Robert Langdon, who is incredibly fussy about his clothes this time around. There’s also the hint of a massive conspiracy being run by a group called the “Consortium” and a plot involving, I’m imagining, poisoning someone’s water supplies.

But, as of yet, the conceit of a Robert Langdon novel, the main character’s specialisation in the pseudo-discipline of Symbology, isn’t happening. What has happened is a chase scene that ended in the reading of some press clippings and a cube farm worker watching a video.

Thrilling!

Back to it, I guess.

Hello, regular reader(s).

At some point tomorrow (or maybe Wednesday), Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon novel, “Inferno” will arrive on my e-reader, at which point I will be consuming the book like someone who reads conspiracy theories for a living and is about to die. I will be live-tweeting my thoughts on the book, hashtag #infernal, so follow that hashtag if you dare.

I’ll also be constructing a review of “Inferno” on the blog: basically I plan to read a few chapters, review what I’ve read and then update that review in a new post a few chapters later. If you can be bothered to read such a series of hastily scrabbled together words in constructions I laughingly call “sentences”, then you’ll get to see my developing thoughts on “Inferno”. If you can’t be bothered, then you can skip to the last review and thank the gods above and the gods below that you don’t have to read Dan Brown novels for a living.

Not that I’m currently making money of being a conspiracy theory theorist.

You can read my review of the last Dan Brown novel, “The Lost Symbol”, here.