Origin - Dan Brown

Rating – 4/5

One line for the book: A suspense thriller, which proves how technology can be a double-edged weapon.

About the book: A great computer scientist finds answers to the two most important questions:

• Where do we come from?
• Where are we going?

However, because of a disaster, the discovery is not revealed. The book is about finding answers to these questions in the absence of the scientist (and who is behind stopping the scientist to reveal this information). 

What I love about the book: The attention to detail on art, literature, scientific theories, history, technology, etc. Dan Brown is undoubtedly knowledgeable on a variety of fields.

What I did not like about the book: 

• The climax leaves more questions than answers. 
• The book only talks about the human race. What about plants and other animals?

What I learned from the book:

• Where we come from, and where we are heading (although, contrary to what the book says, I think the prediction may not happen completely for another 100 years).
• Technology is a double-edged weapon.
• Art has a language on its own. 

P.S: I was warned that Dan Brown books are gory and hence, may be disturbing. But I did not find the book that disturbing (in terms of the level of detail given to the violence).