I read this book with racing adrenaline -- started slowly, but as the story went on and on I couldn't handle my excitement.
"Seek and ye shall find"
My biased overlook on Tom Hanks' role as Robert Langdon might affect why I enjoyed all those long historical explanations throughtout the book, yes, I really think he suits the character really well. Whenever Dan Brown mentioned Langdon's physical descriptions, I think of Hanks. Vice versa.
I really lost deeply into Dan Brown's sophisticated knowledges about history and obviously, Dante. I heard that name a lot, Dante, Dante, Dante.. The more I read the book, the more I got interested studying Dante and all his works, his poems. How his writings gave such big impacts to other human beings. How his theories inspired a lot of arts. How he gained all the appreciations for his thoughts and the way he saw the world -- or must I say.. Hell?
Inferno brought me to a nightmare, I was forced to think about the terrifying over-populated world. It never even crossed my mind. From the graph bellow, we could see how the population curved, how it multiplied way much during 1000-2000 C. I know it's confusing, it gave me a second thought about the cause. The explanation given made me kinda taking the dark - villain side, once. Crazy as it sounds, I was between dillemas. Totally had no idea how Dan Brown would end this book.
Overall, it's really my kind of book. The book I immediately wanna know how it ends but also feels sad leaving it, haha. Dan Brown guaranteed all of us surprises -- yep you'll see a lot of surprises.. Yesterday I also googled about the movie which has just started filming 6 days a go.. absolutely gonna take a long time. Rumored, it will be released on October 2016. From what I've seen, the one playing Sienna looks attractive and has beauty qualities as well as I imagined, but why didn't I see blonde hair? Isn't Sienna blonde? And the one portraying Dr. Sinskey looks fits in too, though I haven't seen her silver hair. Whatever, I'm looking forward for anything related to Inferno.
Well I won't say anymore about the plot since I myself hate spoillers. My further description might bother the thrilling parts. Inferno also brought me to magnificent places -- Florence, Venice and Istanbul. Venice is a perfect metaphor choice for the over-population crisis thing. This book told a lot about the cities' historical buildings, anything related to Dante. The descriptions were beyond my expectations, they were all very detailed-written. Dan Brown must've had a very deep and toughtful research about all of these, I really am a fan. It's uh-ma-zing.
Cheers to the ancient conspiracy puzzle lover, the Mickey Mouse - watch clad professor.
