So Langdon kills time staring aghast at the modern art, which Brown describes in detail. This book does some spectacularly funny stalling in order to postpone the moment of truth. Now Langdon, still in tails, dashes out of the museum alongside its director, the beautiful Ambra Vidal. Part of the fun in reading Brown comes from not taking him too seriously as a stylist. Brown loves winking at Langdon, the literally dashing version of himself, and inviting readers to share the joke.

Source: New York Times October 03, 2017 22:13 UTC