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Review: Origin

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I love Dan Brown. From Angels & Demons to The DaVinci Code , he was on-point. I'll never forget the early excitement and thrill of the chase with the brilliant Harvard swimmer — er, professor. But my love for Robert Langdon and his adventures thins out in subsequent novels, and Origin  doesn't revive it. In fact, I stopped reading Brown's latest novel about a quarter of the way through.I feel like I kept reading a lot longer than I wanted, but I was trying to get to the "good part" before I surrendered. Origin made me start counting how many ways smiles could be used as adjectives. The villain nearly twirled his big black mustache every time he appeared on the page. The villain was so much like Silas, deep in his misguided faith in his boss and his deity, I kept expecting references to albinism. I appreciated Brown's patient, thorough, and loving description of the Guggenheim Bilbao; someday, I may return to the book just to see to what other