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The Secret of Secrets

​By Dan Brown

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Dan Brown has a good thing going on with his Robert Langdon series. With a few movies based on the character we already know, the connection is already there, and who doesn’t like Tom Hanks. This is an easy book to dive into without bothering with the synopsis.

I decided to go with the Audible of this book; almost twenty-three hours of listening. This was my first Audible within the Robert Langdon series; I’ve read a couple and seen the movies, and I have come to the conclusion that the best way to experience a story in the Robert Langdon series is the movie.

I don’t mind a long Audible or a big book, but the content has to be there. Dan Brown can create a good story, he has good characters, but he tends to be overly verbose, delving into things that we really don’t need in a work of fiction. There were parts of this story that droned on like a bibliography to justify the scientific conclusions put forward by the main love interest. Dan, buddy, this is fiction, not a published academic paper; we are all good with story. And I get it, you have lots of time to do your research but keep the plot moving; I really don’t care if it is true or not, the story is good, keep it moving. In the movie they would have cut out huge chunks of pointless narrative that really added absolutely nothing to the enjoyment of the story. In all honesty, it brought my enjoyment down because I wanted the story to move forward.

The Secret of Secrets is a really good story, with a protagonist that I immediately connected to, but it seems to suffer a bit of author ego. Tell me a story, I’m smart enough to understand what parts are fact, fiction or theory.

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*4 Stars