Origin by Dan Brown review

“Origin” marks another thrilling mysterious adventure for Harvard professor Robert Langdon, the symbologist who revealed stunning secrets and shocking conspiracies in “The Da Vinci Code”. “Origin” is Brown’s other remarkably and exceptionally best-selling novel.

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“Origin” by Dan Brown

The Story:

Tonight in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, The Harvard University’s prominent scientist Edmond Kirsch as a specialist in game theory and computer modeling, “Game theory is a field of mathematics that studies patterns in order to make predictions about the future”, is ready to answer the two core questions to life: Where did we come from? Where are we going?

On the mountaintop’s monastery’s famed library of Montserrat, Catalonia, Edmond has already met Bishop Antonio Valdespino and his colleagues, Rabbi Yehuda Köves a prominent Jewish philosopher and revered Islamic scholar allamah, Syed al-Fadl privately. During this meeting, Kirsch “hurled a flaming spear into a hornets’ nest”; the gods of these three religious men became threatened. Kirsch made a scientific discovery that he has pursued for many years, hoping to provide answers to two of the most fundamental questions of our human experience. After he has succeeded, he comes to these three men specifically because he believes the information will affect the world’s faith in a profound way.

Kirsch planned to go public with his discovery’s presentation to prove that the teachings of all religions were “all dead wrong”. But then, when Kirsch finally at the Guggenheim begins to reveal his secret, some Roman Catholic zealot shoots him in the head.

Luckily, Robert Langdon is among the special guests this night. He decided to unlock Kirsch’s PowerPoint presentation and post his discovery online. But the same mysterious assassin who murdered Kirsch will stop at nothing to keep that from happening. As a matter of fact, it’s a cosmic battle between the conservative forces of Spain following Franco and the enlightened forces of science eager to embrace the future.

While trying to divine Kirsch’s computer password that is composed of a 47 character line of poetry:” The dark Religions are departed & sweet science reigns”, Robert raced around tourist hotspots in Spain — Casa Mila! Sagrada Familia! —In this whole mess, Longdon and the Guggenheim’s beautiful director “Ambra” who happens to be the future bride of Spain’s prince, received great deal of help from Edmond’s computerized personal assistant “Winston”.  

Where did we come from? Where are we going? The answers did not really surprise me. “Origin” is here to encourage and “… cultivate harmony among the world’s religions, build bridges between diverse spiritualities, celebrate the intersections of all faith, [and science].”