{"id":630,"date":"2017-09-27T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:48:42","slug":"book-inferno-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/27\/book-inferno-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Inferno (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1375881038l\/17212236.jpg\" alt=\"Inferno\" width=\"318\" height=\"318\" \/>Inferno<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2013<br \/>\nAuthor: Dan Brown<br \/>\nLength: 1,033 minutes \/ 17.22 hours<\/p>\n<p>In this, the fourth installment of the Robert Langdon series, Dan Brown has continued to successfully marry science to art, albeit with the same tropes and trappings that occur in the book\u2019s predecessors. With <em>Inferno<\/em>, we get the same race across Europe explored in <em>Angels &amp; Demons<\/em> and <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em>, with the ambiguity of the antagonist\u2019s motives that fueled <em>The Lost Symbol<\/em>. All throughout this adventure, the now-standard \u201cfemale who is an expert in her field\u201d accompanies Langdon as he tries to unravel the mystery and save the world. Langdon continues to be part <i>Indiana Jones<\/i> and part <i>James Bond<\/i>, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing the standard \u201ctemporary amnesia\u201d plot device, Brown refines his style while also increasing the stakes. While previous books in the series had potential impacts on the local and national levels, Inferno takes the antagonist\u2019s plan to a global scale. With the main character as talented with memory as Robert Langdon is, taking away his recent memories was a good way to have him re-learn the situation at the same time the audience does. This also allows for some entertaining twists and turns as characters\u2019 motives are revealed, often taking the plot in a quick 180\u00b0 turn.<\/p>\n<p>While much of the historical plot of <em>Inferno<\/em> focuses on the titular work by Dante, the scientific side of the story is incredibly relevant. Previous Brown books like <em>Angels &amp; Demons<\/em> or <em>The Lost Symbol<\/em> certainly had some interesting scientific intertwining, but <em>Inferno<\/em> examines one of the most pressing issues within the scientific community right now. This issue, much like global climate change, has no easy answer, and Brown\u2019s solution through the book\u2019s antagonist is certainly a terrifying answer, even if it is probably the most humane way to go about implementing it.<\/p>\n<p>The best book in the Robert Langdon series to date, I give <em>Inferno<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inferno Year: 2013 Author: Dan Brown Length: 1,033 minutes \/ 17.22 hours In this, the fourth installment of the Robert Langdon series, Dan Brown has continued to successfully marry science to art, albeit with the same tropes and trappings that occur in the book\u2019s predecessors. With Inferno, we get the same race across Europe explored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[121,639,55,638,858,8,640,641,715],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-121","tag-angels-and-demons","tag-book","tag-dan-brown","tag-inferno","tag-review","tag-robert-langdon","tag-the-da-vinci-code","tag-the-lost-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}