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463 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2013
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrateAbandon all hope, ye who enter hereor
Does the story engage out attention? Or do we find ourselves wandering off?Informative
Is it fast-paced?
Do we care about the characters?
Is it fun?
In short, does this make a good beach read?
Does it teach us something new?ENTERTAINMENT
Is the information interesting?
Does it address some larger issue, one of actual significance?
Does it make sense?
Does the story engage our attention?Sure. While not, for me at least, as engaging as The DaVinci Code, I kept turning all 463 pages, eager to find out what there was to be found, info and plot-wise. But I was not exactly panting to get back to the book at every free moment.
Is it fast-paced?Is the Pope Argentinian? This is what Brown does. Aside from the sort of occasional interruptions that might give the wearer of a pace-maker the sweats, (noted in more detail below) he keeps things moving along. I was reminded of an old (1912) adventure tale, A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. That book was also a series. Battle, capture, rescue, escape, repeat, with bits of information about some underlying subject in the book tossed in to grease the narrative wheels. Ditto here.
Do we care about the characters?Truthfully, it is tough not to care about a character that has the face of Tom Hanks ironed onto it, but yeah, I guess, although a lot less than a whole lot of other fictional people. It is fun to see Langdon attempting to recover his memory and figure out who that mysterious woman he keeps seeing in vision-flashes might be. Sienna Galore has a pretty interesting back-story, a large brain, and the usual physical assets required for Brown’s kicked-up Bond-girl roles. So sure, why not. Aside from those two, only a little here and there. Character is not the thing in Dan Brown books.
Is it fun?As a straight up read, forgetting for the moment one’s analytical inclinations, Si! Brown does revel in puzzles and there are more secrets embedded in Inferno than there are candied items in a fruit cake. And some are quite delicious. (OK, I hereby out myself as a weirdo who likes fruit cake). Unlike one’s experience with fruit cake, however, you will miss out on that weighty feeling of having ingested a brick. Literarily, Inferno is a lot more like chiffon cake than its denser cousin. Also there are enough twists to keep the cap machines at the Nogara Coke bottling factory busy for a long time.
Does it make a good beach read?Assolutamente
Does it teach us something new?Naturalmente! We learn of a mysterious transnational entity, that Brown swears is based on a real organization, that smoothes out the curves so that people of questionable motives, but certain resources, can go about their business unimpeded. The head of this group might have been well served with a fluffy white kitty and a pinky ring. Brown offers some nifty tour guides to this and that location in several cities, and a fair bit of history on Dante and his most famous bit of writing. He offers some illuminating details on this or that building, painting and sculpture, including where it might have traveled over the centuries (well, not the buildings, of course) and whether the version we see today is a fully original specimen. He also gives us a very good reason to take a tour of the secret passageways in Old World cities.
Is the information interesting?Leaving aside prophets and their like, before there were mononymous sorts like Liberace, Elvis and Madonna, even earlier than sorts like that English playwright, there was Durante degli Aligheri, known to a certain childhood acquaintance, Beatrice, as that boy who wouldn’t stop staring at her, known to certain priors in Florence as the guy who refused to pay his fine and was thus banned for life, and known to us in the 21st century as Dante.
Does it address some larger issue, one of actual significance?Sicuramente. Two in fact. One of the major elements in the story is the determination by our psycho-scientist billionaire sort that human population is about to reach a dangerous level, one which is likely to trigger all sorts of catastrophes. There are various ways one can address this concern, but the underlying concern is quite real. Brown does us all a service by bringing it to the attention of millions of readers. Another element here is the notion of “Transhumanism.” Basically this entails humans taking charge of our own evolution and using all the technology available to us to ensure maximization of our physical and intellectual capacities. Whether one sees this as a Satanic plot, yet another opportunity for the haves to have even more, or the beginning of a new human renaissance, the subject is worth checking out.
Does it make sense?In some ways yes and in some ways no. There is validity to the underlying science. But would the baddie really leave a breadcrumb trail for potential foilers to his big bang?
Venice hosted a staggering number of tourists every year—an estimated one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population—some twenty million visitors in the year 2000. With the additional billion added to the earth’s population since that year, the city was now groaning under the weight of three million more tourists per year. Venice, like the planet itself, had only a finite amount of space, and at some point would no longer be able to import enough food, dispose of enough waste, or find enough beds for all those who wanted to visit it.
Even highly intellectual users displayed an instinctual tendency toward denial. According to the study, the vast majority of university students, after clicking on a depressing news article about arctic ice melt or species extinction, would quickly exit that page in favor of something trivial that purged their minds of fear; favorite choices included sports highlights, funny cat videos, and celebrity gossip.
عندك فكرة عن نظرية ملتس؟-
مين؟-
ملتس يا أستاذ , الخط البياني للإزدياد الكبير في عدد النسل يهدد بظاهرة خطيرة , هي تضاعف عدد السكان في أقل عدد ممكن من السنين
نقول كمان , يزداد عدد السكان بشكل متوالية هندسية في متوالية عددية كل فترة زمنية ,بمعني أن العشرة مليون في ظرف 5 سنوات يبقوا 20 مليون , ال20 مليون في ظرف 5 سنوات يبقوا 40 مليون , ال40 مليون في ظرف 5 سنوات يبقوا 80 مليون ,ال80 مليون في ظرف 5 سنوات يبقوا 160 مليون وهكذا هكذا دواليك دواليك دواليك
من هنا كانت الخطورة
ياسلام بقي هو ده بقي ملتس-
ايوة , زيادة النسل بهذا الشكل الرهيب يترتب عليه نكبات اجتماعية خطيرة , -زيادة في الإستهلاك , نقص في المواد الغذائية, النتيجة الحتمية لذلك مجاعة .. مجاعة يا حضرت مجاعة
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