Origin
By Altai Ozkan
To be honest, I haven’t read a full book since my senior year of high school, and I don’t know if anyone else can relate. However, the last book that I read was definitely a memorable one. It was called “Origin” by Dan Brown. If you are interested in mystery novels mixed with thriller and crime, you will love this book. It is one of many books featuring Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology professor, who goes on many adventures and works with different governments to solve radical mysteries involving religion, science, and wild ideologies. Specifically, this book focused on one of Langdon’s former students (who presently in the book is a tech billionaire), who apparently figured out the answers to why humans fundamentally exist in the first place. This book has a lot to do with evolution, and the entire plot of the story ends with a great answer to why humans exist in the first place.
It was such an interesting read with many cliffhangers and plot-lines that get resolved or end very surprisingly. There were many riddles that Langdon and his “book-specific” partner, Ambra, solved to finally release the secret that his former student discovered (he could not do it himself as he was brutally murdered right before his presentation in a museum based in Spain; he was also dying from cancer at the same time). The story is completely fiction yet it seems so real at the same time. Other books like this include “Angels and Demons”, “DaVinci’s Code”, and “Inferno”, all featuring the same character. I suggest reading all of them, since I did, even though I normally don’t enjoy reading that much. Watch the movies for these three as well (no movie for “Origin”), but the latest one “Inferno” was not that good to be honest. Robert Langdon is portrayed by Tom Hanks in all of these.
