(You can practically hear the dramatic music behind the text, can't you?!ģ. Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus, Sinskey thought. Oh, and here's another one - because you can't not gently chide Dan Brown's writing without pointing out one of his oh-so-dramatic italicized thoughts. Now, I know you don't read Dan Brown to be achieve literary enlightenment. “On the topic of light, I hope the provost was able to shed some for you on recent events?” Landon shrugged, “Your plane needs windows.” Bad Writing Is Badly Written: On the plus side, a reference to Langdon's claustrophobia (and according to this fantastic Book Riot post - Inferno By The Numbers- there are 13 such references) provided fodder for, by far, my favorite unintentionally comic passage in the novel. Dan Brown and Dan Brown's publisher wants each of the four Langdon novels to be self-contained so readers won't feel like they have to read the others to know what's going on. (I totally understand there's something beyond Langdon's control going on here.

All we get is that he's still a symbologist, and he's still claustrophobic. Is This The Same Guy? Right off the bat, I have to ask: Why doesn't Robert Langdon ever reference his previous adventures?! Wouldn't you think it'd be a huge credibility booster (and probably score some points with the cute lady he's running with here) to drop into conversation something like 'Well, I did save the world once before from an anti-matter toting lunatic, so this time it should be no sweat' or 'Remember that time I discovered that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene? That was pretty cool.' But, no.

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