To begin with, I am a tech-savvy person. I know what is currently going on with AI, and I can understand how the future might look for humans to some extent, mainly after this Gen AI revolution. I feel this might have impacted a lot about how I feel about the book.
I got this book in 2022, one month after the release of ChatGPT (people were talking about it, but it wasn’t that big of a deal as it is now). Sadly, I didn’t read it at that time. I wish I had, though. The book was released in 2017, and I feel that if I had read it then, I would have liked it a lot, I guess. Because other than what happens on the last page, nothing really surprised me.
As I was reading it initially, I got frustrated about this discovery that Edmund found but was not revealing what it was. He kept building up a lot of suspense at every step, but after some time, I gave up and let him reveal it whenever he wanted to. But the moment I got to know about that supercomputer, I got an understanding of what it might be. So the discovery wasn’t that satisfactory for me, and to be honest, I don’t think it can shake religions even if it happens now because it’s just modelling. The result is driven by modelling.
Till this point, I felt that the book was okay — not the best one, but interesting. As I was nearing the end, I completely forgot about the murders that were committed by the Regent, and when it was confessed at the end, that was really shocking and unexpected, to be honest — and how Winston plotted all this. I am not sure how many evil plans he might have plotted, or subplots he created to achieve this, just because Edmund asked it to have a maximum audience. It’s crazy, and I love it. And the way Winston achieved it is obviously cruel, but he didn’t care at all.
Overall, it’s a very interesting read. I know readers here say that most of Dan Brown’s books follow a similar plot, but this is my first one, and I plan to read The Da Vinci Code too.
Let me know your thoughts…
by vinay1668