Origin (Booktober)

 

"Nature was once the core. For all of us."

 

 

 

When Dan Brown first published The Da Vinci Code way back when, he probably had no idea just how popular it - and Robert Langdon - would become. Bolstered by the performance of Tom Hanks, the series continues in Origin, a Spain-based novel filled with the usual Brown ingredients: mystery, fast-paced chases, and some added information for tourists and historical students alike. And at the end, it's Langdon against an unseen foe yet again. What more do you need on a rainy fall afternoon?

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch.

(from Goodreads)

 

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Tome Thursday: Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Hello everyone!

So every once in a while I'll pick up a book which has somehow or other been deemed inappropriate, scandalous, or, you know, it may even have been forbidden at some point or other.

I mean, The Da Vinci Code is certainly on that list!

But then again, other times I'm going to go back to re-read some things and remember there are other books connected to whatever it is I'm reading, which means that I'll be on the hunt to track down these other sources.

This was what happened to me with tonight's book of choice.

I was never one of those people who would fall so completely into a legend or story that I'd be doing my own research, but just before my parents took a short trip I asked my dad to dig up a book I'd remembered seeing lying about at some point, but books in our house tend to grow legs and clatter everywhere you can imagine.

My father being the amazing man that he is went and actually unearthed this book from under a couple of tires and out of a box. I'm talking about Holy Blood, Holy Grail, of course.

Tome Thursday: Origin

Hello everyone!

I think ... no, I'm fairly sure that I've never before reviewed one of Dan Brown's books on my blog.

Let me do a quick search to double-check.

I have not.

BUT I do have the review for the movie Inferno, which is the latest in the Robert Langdon series with Tom Hanks in the titular role, so I'm going to be including the link to that one at the very bottom of this page. And maybe someday I'll be bored enough to actually reread the lot of the books and review them one by one. That job alone would give me food for these posts for two solid months!

Anyway.

Origin, the subject of tonight's post, is the absolute latest of Brown's novels and it once again features professor Robert Langdon doing what he usually does best: solving puzzles people left behind for him.

In this case, we're once again dealing with the Church.