📚 Finished reading: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.
This is Dan Brown’s sixth book in the Professor Langdon series. This time he’s got a girlfriend - Professor of Noetics Katherine Solomon. She’s about to publish a book that not even Langdon is allowed to know the details of its contents, other than that it’s something fairly revelatory about consciousness.
Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t go all that smoothly. Powerful people don’t want the book to get to print. And they’ll go to even greater lengths than Meta did to stop it.
As ever, Brown’s book feels well-researched. Some of the studies it mentions and the descriptions of the few notable locations I’m aware of ring true, even if the events themselves are a little credulity-stretching at times. But hey, who wants to read about a load of boring normal stuff. And the Institute of Noetics is a real organisation. What is there is engaging and fast paced.
As to the topic of Katherine’s book, well, who knows. But I did come away with the curious feeling that, despite being fictional, this book presented arguments for a “non-conventional reality”, let’s say, as convincing as some non-fiction books on the topic, albeit a lot more abbreviated.
I know people love to hate the author, Dan Brown. I have no idea how to judge his literary style. But nor do I really care when I do know that I really enjoy basically every one of his books.
