Dan Brown – the best writer of mystery-thriller novels

For most of you,  Dan Brown can be known as a writer of conspiracy stories like mason, illuminati, or fiction which never could come true. Maybe that is why no one of you realize that extremely  often in his books are hidden the burning questions about all humanity on which is not so simply to answer. What is more, usually the answer is very controversial and may cause many misunderstandings, conflicts and lead simply to hate. Probably it happens, because people don’t understand the Brown’s way of thinking, the questions which he asks are too deeply and  unreliable or it also can be that  people don’t want to think about such things, or even worst, people are alive to believe him but they afraid to do it, to not be criticized like he is.

Now, we’re passing to his new book which has been published recently. The title of the book is ‘Origin’ which is another surprising and absorbing adventure of the professor Robert Langdon, the main character of all series, following Angles & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ending with Inferno. Like the author claim, the research for any book is the hardest process of writing, it takes a really long time.  Working on the Origin it has been the biggest challenge of all of his writing career. It took him two long years of researching. The situation with The Da Vinci Code looked a little bit different, because Brown had already known a lot of about history, art and Christianity what obviously was the book about. Despite of his incredible knowledge about history and others disciplines, Dan Brown had to deal with big themes of science, artificial intelligence, modern art and additionally a Spanish family and Spain as a country.  We can guess he needed to put an enormous effort creating the story. Like I said before, he has spent two years of reading and learning about all of this, before starting to write the first words. He has not just been reading other books but also he has been traveling to talk with many people who are specialists in science, religions, etc.

So now we can ask, what important questions appeared in this book. There are three main questions, at the beginning I’m going to put just two, which are: Where are we come from? Where are we going? At first sight, they seem to be simple and very typical ones, but when we enter more deeply into them, suddenly  they are getting more complicated to understand and to figure out the answer, the truth.

In spite of these two questions, the real one is: Will God survive the science? The question is kind of a clash of the science and religion. Brown claim that the science and religion are two different languages trying to tell us the same story but in the different way. In his opinion and according the history of the whole humanity, God can have problems to survive the science, more probably is that God will not manage to do it at all. I have to admit, it is a very interesting and brave statement. The argument which he uses to defend the theory is that people in the past used to believe in many gods who ruled over the whole world, having superpowers which helped them. In a result,  we know very well Thor, a god of lightings  or Zeus, thunder god of the ancient Greece. Therefore, what happened that people stopped to believe in them? The answer is obvious, the science came bringing a progress, explaining everything what was attributed to bigger or smaller gods.

I could talk more and more about it, but I guess if you take a book in your own hands and read it, you will discover what the author wants to say exactly, and I’m sure he will make you to think about many things you have not taken in consideration for a long time or maybe never yet.