I just finished reading Dan Brown’s “Inferno”, after a month!
It was slow reading because I honestly found it long-winded. Here’s my review over on Goodreads:
I read this book because I was curious about the uproar in Manila regarding how the city was described in the book. The Manila scenario in the book could have been any other city in the world, Filipinos are really just sensitive when their country is being put in a negative light, even if the description was accurate. poverty, pickpockets, traffic, pollution, they all exist in Manila, but it also exists in other parts of the world.
Honestly, if Dan Brown changed the name to say, bangkok, or mexico, it won’t affect the story at all. In any case, I found this book, well, boring. It took me a couple of weeks to finish, because I just couldn’t bring myself to read it most nights. Long and winded description about Florence, Venice and their structures, I felt as if I were reading a lonely planet guidebook.
The plot was ok, but I didn’t feel the excitement as with Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. And is it just me, or do you also see Tom Hanks in mind when reading about Robert Langdon?
And just like that, I added 1 book to my yearly reading challenge. I think I have to get a move on so I can reach my target by december. What’s a good book to read these days?
