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My favorite Dan Brown novel.
Just like his Robert Langdon series this is sometimes a little silly but, like the better Langdon novels, it's also a lot of page-turning fun.
It's about NASA's discovery of a meteorite in the Arctic ice which seems to contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This would be a huge success for NASA after years of failure.
It also comes at a time of presidential election and with the current President and his challenger Senator Sexton having different stances as to what to do with NASA.
The discovery of the meteorite therefore becomes part of political powerplay in Washington and Sexton's daughter who's working for the NRO gets caught up in it.
She's sent to the Arctic along with oceanographer Michael Tolland and some other scientists and, suffice it to say, things do not go as planned and soon people are either running for their lives or searching for the truth or both.
The themes of that story are much more appealing to me compared to the other Dan Brown novels I've read. And this makes me much more willing to give him a pass for some of his cheap tricks and the odd scene that requires the suspending of disbelief.
4.5 stars
I had a lot of fun with this book and in fact do still rank it among my favorites.
Just like his Robert Langdon series this is sometimes a little silly but, like the better Langdon novels, it's also a lot of page-turning fun.
It's about NASA's discovery of a meteorite in the Arctic ice which seems to contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This would be a huge success for NASA after years of failure.
It also comes at a time of presidential election and with the current President and his challenger Senator Sexton having different stances as to what to do with NASA.
The discovery of the meteorite therefore becomes part of political powerplay in Washington and Sexton's daughter who's working for the NRO gets caught up in it.
She's sent to the Arctic along with oceanographer Michael Tolland and some other scientists and, suffice it to say, things do not go as planned and soon people are either running for their lives or searching for the truth or both.
The themes of that story are much more appealing to me compared to the other Dan Brown novels I've read. And this makes me much more willing to give him a pass for some of his cheap tricks and the odd scene that requires the suspending of disbelief.
4.5 stars
I had a lot of fun with this book and in fact do still rank it among my favorites.
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Sep 18, 2018 10:37AM
Lovely review, Dennis <3
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Thanks, Jen! I took one out of your book and write some shorter reviews to books I read some time ago.It's fun to think about some of those books again.
That one might actually be due for a re-read.
I've only read one of Brown's books so far but this sounds interesting as well.
Which one did you read, Trish?
Angels & Demons. I love riddles so that one was really cool.
That one I liked as well. But this here is more of a traditional thriller. It's really fun though.If I'm correct it's also the last book he wrote outside of his Langdon series. I think I've had enough of Professor Langdon by now.
I never read on to be honest. Langdon was a cool character but you can only do the same thing so many times before it becomes flat and boring no matter what you're throwing at the characters.
That's exactly my problem with that series. It's too much of the same.If his writing was okay for you, pick up this one instead.
Yeah, that was my plan. As soon as I have some free time. ;)
Back in the day I gave this 5 stars... :-)
Cathy (cathepsut) wrote: "Back in the day I gave this 5 stars... :-)"I've just realized you're on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for more than a decade. I never even heard about it until last year. Clearly, I've done something wrong.
Lol. And it wasn‘t owned by Amazon back then, either.
Dennis wrote: "Cathy (cathepsut) wrote: "Back in the day I gave this 5 stars... :-)"I've just realized you're on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for more than a decade. I never even heard about it until last year. Clearly, I've done..."
Ayup. Even I remember the good old days when Amazon hadn't bought it yet.
Must have been nice.
Dennis wrote: "Must have been nice."Not all of it but yeah ...
