Phew! Even though my reading speed in English novels has finally caught up with Mandarin, tackling this 677-page epic, packed with semiotics, history, materialist science, noetic science, religious studies, Czech, Latin, and diplomatic jargon… still makes me want to give myself a pat on the back for managing to digest it with ease. I’m certain that once the Traditional Mandarin edition comes out, I’ll buy another copy for my collection. Owning three versions of the same book (Mandarin, English, and e-book), is it a bit over the top?
After an eight-year wait, Professor Robert Langdon, expert in semiotics and religious symbolism, is finally back! Of course, every suspense thriller comes with foreshadowing, but wasn’t the identity of the Golem way too easy to guess? By the later chapters, I was almost convinced that Dan Brown didn’t care if readers figured out 90% of the twists within the first 15% of the book. What he cares about is the knowledge and reflection embedded in the novel. What he wants to pass on is history, semiotics, culture, religion, science, human nature, architecture—and above all, his interpretation of “consciousness” and “death,” as well as explorations of how technology and dimensions intertwine. As for the identity behind the clay mask? That’s just a narrative perspective, never the main focus.
Every time I finish a Dan Brown book, my travel list grows with another city. Sooner or later, I’ll revisit Rome and the Vatican from “Angels & Demons”, Paris and London from “The Da Vinci Code”; Florence, Venice, and Istanbul from “Inferno”; and Bilbao and Barcelona from “Origin”… all already in the planning. And now, the City of a Thousand Spires, Prague, has been added.
After finishing “The Secret of Secrets”, I’m once again convinced that Dan Brown doesn’t just deliver the thrill of mystery and suspense. He creates a cyclical experience of reading, learning, and traveling. The novel becomes a key that unlocks doors to history and culture, while also awakening curiosity deep inside. Perhaps what I gain at the end of each book isn’t just a story, but a deeper yearning for the world itself.
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