Monday, March 17, 2008

Master of Mystery




Usually, Bestsellers have a reason why they are so popular. The so-called controversial novels of Dan Brown truly deserve their place in such a list of Bestsellers. Yes, they are over and over talked about, but still they should be worth mentioning especially in this list. From here on we can go either way; more into fiction or more into non-fiction. Anyways, this time I will present a synopsis of three novels of Dan Brown (although he only wrote four, but the first one was not my taste-too many numbers). These three are Deception Point, Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code. Let’s start with the earlier book Angels and Demons. Angels and Demons was published in 2000 and tells the early stories of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who is summoned to CERN in Switzerland to encrypt a symbol on a corpse’s chest. The story leads to a vendetta against the Catholic Church by an underground organization called the Illuminati. Langdon and scientist Vittoria Vetra both discover why and how the Pope was killed and who really is behind this evil plot to overthrow the Catholic Church.

Deception Point was Dan Brown’s third novel and was published in 2001. Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is being called to a NASA discovery on arctic ice in order to analyze and verify the finds to the public. But as she and a group of other researchers slowly discover that there is a major fraud going on, they are turning into targets of this deception and soon flee for their lives.

And of course, what would Dan Brown’s success be without his international hit The Da Vinci Code. Before you start thinking about the blasphemy and so on and so forth, let me remind you that the book is purely fiction. It is based on other books who claim to have discovered significant details about Jesus’ life. Nevertheless The Da Vinci Code remains the interesting and unique story that kept everybody buzzing.

Despite the attention-grabbing plots, the only thing that seems to annoy is the pace in which everything is going. I would like to see him write a novel where the characters are finally allowed to rest for a bit instead of being chased all over the story.

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