Some time has passed since the irruption of one of the last great Bestseller authors: Dan Brown. With the perspective of his already good years since the arrival in our lives of The Da Vinci Code, this author has lavished himself on new stories that have delved into the formula of this original work. Whether he has managed to surpass what was offered in the first with his subsequent novels is a very subjective matter.
Because Dan Brown presented other novels of a similar string, highlighting Origin, a novel that I have already reported on this blog, here. But from The Da Vinci Code until today..., what are his best novels? In which of them has he managed to capture us the most and surprise us with the best ending?
The nature of every blockbuster ultimately boils down to two aspects: it must entertain with an addictive nature through a great mystery, enigma or whatever leitmotif, and finally it must close the plot with an anthological ending that leaves you speechless, either by the suggestiveness of its open ending or the most surprising closing you have read up to that moment. I base myself on that idea of the bestseller to select the three must-have books by Dan Brown. Let's go there.
Dan Brown's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Inferno
Supporting a story in Leonardo Da Vinci always gives a package, but developing a plot about the Divine Comedy, with its possibilities to suggest based on metaphors about heaven, hell, salvation or perdition is a masterful choice for a best-seller.
And so this novel turns out, for me of greater importance than what Dan Brown has written up to that moment. In the heart of Italy, Harvard Symbology Professor Robert Langdon finds himself drawn into a terrifying world centered on one of the most imperishable and mysterious masterpieces of literature in history: Dante's Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon faces a chilling adversary and grapples with a clever riddle in a setting of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing on Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon, in a race against time, seeks answers and trusted people before the world irrevocably changes.
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The fact that the story takes place largely in Spain may have led me to place Origen in second place. But don't believe it at all. In this new novel by the genius of bestsellers, we really enjoy the background proposal. Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology and iconography at Harvard University, goes to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a momentous announcement that "will change the face of science forever."
The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a young billionaire whose visionary technological inventions and bold predictions have made him a world-renowned figure. Kirsch, one of Langdon's brightest alumni years ago, sets out to reveal an extraordinary discovery that will answer the two questions that have haunted mankind since the beginning of time.
WHERE WE COME FROM? WHERE WE GO? Shortly after the presentation begins, meticulously orchestrated by Edmond Kirsch and museum director Ambra Vidal, chaos erupts to the amazement of hundreds of guests and millions of viewers around the world. With the imminent threat that the valuable find may be lost forever, Langdon and Ambra must desperately flee to Barcelona and race against time to locate the cryptic password that will give them access to Kirsch's groundbreaking secret.
The Da Vinci Code
You have to put it on the podium because thanks to it this author was able to work on his next works. Let's see, I don't want to say that the novel is bad, but the ending ... that ending that leaves you halfway ... maybe Dan Brown should have given it one more spin ...
But of course the development was so grandiose that if the world did not implode with the last page, it seemed little to us. Robert Langdon, an expert in symbology, receives a call in the middle of the night: the curator of the Louvre museum has been murdered under mysterious circumstances, and a puzzling encrypted message has appeared next to his body. Digging deeper into the investigation, Langdom discovers that the clues lead to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci...and that they are in full view, hidden by the painter's ingenuity.
Langdon joins forces with the French cryptologist Sophie Neveu and discovers that the museum's curator belonged to the Priory of Sion, a society that over the centuries has had such prominent members as Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo or Da himself. Vinci, and who has been careful to keep a surprising historical truth secret. A fast-paced mix of adventures, Vatican intrigues, symbology and encrypted enigmas that caused an extraordinary controversy by questioning some of the dogmas on which the Catholic Church is based.
And the movies…, what about the movies? Or at least the booktrailers that portend movies ... 🙂