“Inferno” is a fantastic fable of suspense rippling into the depths of destruction, the promise of paradise or the threat of hell.
Contrived in May, the novel “Inferno” burns to the soul’s core of intrigue and fascination. Best selling author Dan Brown who also wrote “The Da Vinci Code” educates the reader along with having a compelling story. The book features the characters Harvard professor Robert Langdon and Dr. Felicity Sienna Brooks. Brooks emits her first name and is known to all as Sienna. Even the reader doesn’t find out her real fist name until very late in the story.
Langdon, a U.S. citizen wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy oblivious as to what happened to him or how he arrived in Italy. Before Langdon can recover from his grazing to the head via a gun shot, a leather clad woman on a motor cycle kills one of doctors and attempts to kill Langdon.
Brooks helps Langdon flee the hospital to safety and they team up to solve an intense mystery. Brooks and Langdon know there is a plan to destroy at least half of the human race. The villains who shall remain nameless have a twisted way to save the world.
According to many, including the World Health Organization the human population is expanding too fast and too much. If this continues, food and water well not be abundant enough for all. Perhaps that’s why nature thrust the Black Death Plaque upon the world in the 1300s.
The World Health Organization; WHO wants to control the population explosion with a world wide spread of contraception. The Vatican spends enormous amounts of money indoctrinating third-world countries into a belief that contraception is evil. I enjoyed how Langdon said; who better than a bunch of male octogenarians who are celibate to tell the world how to have sex.
Some of the philosophy behind the theory to pulverize half of the world’s population is based on “The Divine Comedy” written by Dante Alighieri in the late 1200s or early 1300s. The theme of “The Divine Comedy” is that man must pass through hell to get to paradise.
In order for Langdon and Brooks to save the world (half) of it, the two must assemble the puzzle of clues they find while seeking and fleeing from individuals and army personal who are trying to kill them.
The novel is a bit lengthy, but its plot never losses its cerebral grip. The historical facts seized my attention as well. The age of Le maschere, the sad and happy masks synonymous with dramatic theater is more than 2,500 years old, yet is still the most popular icon in drama.
The lithe figured and beautiful woman Brooks posses a 208 IQ and read all 1,600 pages of the medical text “Grays Anatomy” before she was ten-years-old. The books lengthiness and the fact that Langdon, not Brooks solved most of the clues brought a 5 star rating to a 4 and a half star one.
