Origin is the last installment in Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, the fifth, to be more precise. In my humble opinion, it’s also his best to date, best in the series, the best novel he ever wrote. The subject is endearing and controversial in an era when one can be killed for its convictions, and if not physically killed, then theoretically, in public opinion’s eyes.
Dan Brown’s Origin – the author and the novel’s cover.
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Origin – Plot
This mystery thriller is about how a futurist billionaire named Edmond Kirsch who is, of course, a declared atheist, made a revolutionary discovery which will tremble religious beliefs at the core. His character seems to be apparently inspired by Elon Musk because this brilliant guy is a scientist himself before being a marketer. Now I’m thinking of Steve Jobs who was considered a genius (I don’t know, “coder”, “computer scientist”), only because he became very rich! No, Mr. Kirsch is a scientist who invested in his own revolutionary ventures, proving right again and again.
He happened to be one of Robert Langdon’s former students of symbology and religious iconology at Harvard. The core subject is that he claimed to have discovered the origin of species. He called three religious leaders or at least respected religious scholars, an imam, a Rabbi and a Romano-Catholic bishop in a meeting to present his discovery. Kirsch showed them a film. He promised them he will publicly reveal the content in one month time. The bishop was Antonio Valdespino, Spain King’s confessor. The imam was someone called Syed al-Fadl and the Rabbi was a Hungarian named Yehuda Köves.
Edmond Kirsch was very good friends with a lady named Ambra Vidal, who was Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum of Modern Arts curator, and fiancé of hypothetical Spain’s Prince Julian. Of course, all characters are fictional, as are the thrilling facts. First tension point appears when Kirsch announced he will present his discovery in person at Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum in three days time, instead of a month. It seems that such a thing is inconceivable by the three religious men, but since the imam and the rabbi thought crucial that eventually, the public should know about the discovery, bishop Valdespino sent Kirsch a voicemail demanding that he stop or risk being discredited.
Dan Brown
We know Dan Brown from Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), and Inferno (2013) in Robert Langdon series and Digital Fortress (1998) with Deception Point (2001) as separate volumes. The movie adaptations made after some of these novels were not as successful, nor very credibly created. This is only because in Hollywood, like everywhere, a lot of incompetent executives found their high places as a result of having relatives in the industry and because money doesn’t smell. If you make a ton of money with a masterpiece, counts the same as if you make them with a three pence subject. Besides that, it seems that people ceased to think with their own heads, if the plot is too complicated, they become bored.
Conclusion
I have to confess that I don’t have the patience to end a bad novel just for the sake of ending it. I don’t have time for that. If the writing is not keeping me hooked from the first fifty pages, I abandon it. I also don’t read reviews before starting to read a novel, I hate spoilers. So you are protected if you read my reviews.
Origin is the best Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon novel to date. It is logical, positive and presents a future full of hope. It is more carefully written than other novels in the Langdon series. It’s also a very good and enticing read, a page-turner.
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