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Apart from the book being an advertisement for Musk's Tesla, the book is possibly a few years too late.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.
Merged review:
Apart from the book being an advertisement for Musk's Tesla, the book is possibly a few years too late.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.
Merged review:
Apart from the book being an advertisement for Musk's Tesla, the book is possibly a few years too late.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.
Merged review:
Apart from the book being an advertisement for Musk's Tesla, the book is possibly a few years too late.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.
Merged review:
Apart from the book being an advertisement for Musk's Tesla, the book is possibly a few years too late.
I don't quite remember the last two Langdon books, although, I am sure I didn't enjoy them. I am also perhaps romanticizing Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (original two), to make a fair comparison. But it is still, quintessentially, a Dan Brown product.
While I expected the book to veer towards symbolism around modern(-ish) art and architecture, and its relation to religion (as per previous themes), as the beginning of the book indicated, it fell severely short in that respect. Dan Brown seemed to adopt a different approach to relating art/history/religious symbolism to technology. Albeit, not in any compelling or ingenious way.
Though that was indeed a decent attempt, it didn't provide the same satisfaction as the original two. Lack of symbolism and code-breaking that induced a pseudo-intellectual sense of superiority while reading his books and the Wikipedia style descriptions of some otherwise fantastic architecture, was rather disappointing.
The overall message of the book, the intersection and clash of religion and technology, around two fundamental questions regarding our origins and our destinies, while presented in a somewhat interesting and fresh manner, was still drawn out and not something those following the tech industry would find satisfactory beyond a point (hence the comment about the book possibly being a few years too late). Throwing in JARVIS certainly didn't help.
I wish I could have enjoyed this, but it was still a decent read.