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A review by mandyu
Origin by Dan Brown
1.0
What a huge disappointment after waiting 4 years for this book! I have loved all of Dan Brown's books, but this was the most annoying book to read. The premise of this book was fantastic, but it wasn't developed. By the time they got to releasing the video that the book was building to, I just didn't care anymore. It was just a string of know-it-all statements strung together to make it seem like it was clever. I actually believe that Dan Brown had a bunch of interesting facts written down that he wanted to put into a book, so he built a story around them. Then, he got to the end, looked at his list and realized that he wasn't able to work the FedEx arrow into the "story" itself, so he just threw it in as an "odd fact" and called it a book. It's really sad that my favorite character in the book was Winston, a talking computer. Dan Brown needs to be done with Robert Langdon. It's time. I would read another non-Langdon book, if he were to come out with another stand-alone like Digital Fortress or Deception Point. But, this is my last Langdon book.
Merged review:
What a huge disappointment after waiting 4 years for this book! I have loved all of Dan Brown's books, but this was the most annoying book to read. The premise of this book was fantastic, but it wasn't developed. By the time they got to releasing the video that the book was building to, I just didn't care anymore. It was just a string of know-it-all statements strung together to make it seem like it was clever. I actually believe that Dan Brown had a bunch of interesting facts written down that he wanted to put into a book, so he built a story around them. Then, he got to the end, looked at his list and realized that he wasn't able to work the FedEx arrow into the "story" itself, so he just threw it in as an "odd fact" and called it a book. It's really sad that my favorite character in the book was Winston, a talking computer. Dan Brown needs to be done with Robert Langdon. It's time. I would read another non-Langdon book, if he were to come out with another stand-alone like Digital Fortress or Deception Point. But, this is my last Langdon book.
Merged review:
What a huge disappointment after waiting 4 years for this book! I have loved all of Dan Brown's books, but this was the most annoying book to read. The premise of this book was fantastic, but it wasn't developed. By the time they got to releasing the video that the book was building to, I just didn't care anymore. It was just a string of know-it-all statements strung together to make it seem like it was clever. I actually believe that Dan Brown had a bunch of interesting facts written down that he wanted to put into a book, so he built a story around them. Then, he got to the end, looked at his list and realized that he wasn't able to work the FedEx arrow into the "story" itself, so he just threw it in as an "odd fact" and called it a book. It's really sad that my favorite character in the book was Winston, a talking computer. Dan Brown needs to be done with Robert Langdon. It's time. I would read another non-Langdon book, if he were to come out with another stand-alone like Digital Fortress or Deception Point. But, this is my last Langdon book.