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Summary: An Absolute Work of Art - Don't Miss This One !!!
Review: Angels & Demons is an unbelieveably well conceived and written. It may be the most interesting and creative novel I have read in years! Kudo's to Dan Brown and his amazing talent.You will find Mr. Brown's style easy to read and character development is wonderful. This novel just sucks you in and doesn't let go until the end. Whether you are a mystery buff or just enjoy a good read, you shouldn't miss this novel. It also introduces Robert Langdon, who is a central figure in the DaVinci Code. After reading the DaVinci Code, I was interested in reading some of the other novels written by Dan Brown and picked up Angels & Demons, as well as Digital Fortress and Deception Point. I would suggest you do too, you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: I have always been fascinated with the Illuminati so...
Review: I was delighted to find this book. It is a great story, very fast moving.
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Summary: Okay, average paperback thriller
Review: This book is good beach reading. It moves pretty fast and the descriptions are vivid. BUT, the culprit is revealed very early with an aside that is the movie equivalent to a suspect looking directly into a camera after the others have left the room. Too obvious.
The story should have ended much earlier than it did. It would have made for a tighter novel. Instead it wound up with some very fantastic and insipid plot twists that kind ruined the first 400 pages. They seemed like afterthoughts, as if he had a 500 word minimum and had to tack on more stuff at the end. That was disappointing.
I have not read the Da Vinci Code yet, but I hope its written better than this, for the sake of all the people who say its a great book.
Good for beach reading, but not great, or even good, literature.
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Summary: Great read . . . great companion
Review: This makes a great companion book if you're traveling to Rome. The descriptions are wonderful and you can actually see the churches, statues, etc. while there. Read it on the plane going over--my suggestion. And while I read "The Da Vinci Code" first, I liked "Angels & Demons" so much more. The writing is better, the characters are better (even though some are the same as "Da Vince" they're more "real")and the descriptions are just riveting! I also enjoyed reading two other books recently: McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" and Steinbeck's "East of Eden."
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Summary: Excellent Tour Guide to Rome
Review: With almost five hundred reviews written for this book, I doubt I have anything new to proffer, but repetition may serve well for here. Angels & Demons is firstly a very quick read. At 570+ pages in paperback, I read it in two days. It was mostly for this reason that I started reading it in the first place. I did not intend to read it, but before I could register to stop reading, I was on page 50. What sucked me in were the facts; the trivia and the fiction based on reality. CERN, the Vatican, Rome, its history and art and architecture. All the facts of location and art and history are reported to be non-fiction. This was by far the most worthwhile part of the read. Learning the history of the Illuminati and the major disputes between renaissance science and the Catholic Church made slogging through the story worthwhile. But it is the story that is the weakest part of Angels & Demons. Standard thriller stuff that is plot driven to the extreme and features next to no character development. The main character, Robert Langdon, has neither outstanding characteristics of behavior or charm with the exception of his skills in an archive room using a spatula. He's a walking, talking plot facilitator. Getting trapped, getting untrapped, and for being such a smart guy, he seems to know little about anything that is not art history. (I am neither scientist nor art historian yet I had heard of CERN and its particle accelerator.) The director of CERN is a mish-mash of generic creepy old-but-genius characteristics, who knows more about particle physics than nearly anybody else alive, but knows next to nothing about art or religious history. The female companion of Langdon is eye candy, which is disconcerting for a text-driven adventure. But how can a character be that engaging when she is genius as all the others, yet as an orphan at age nine did not know the meaning of "adoption", and whose most memorable description is that she is, "Lithe"? The rest of the characters follow the same pattern of connect-the-dots plot fulfillers, with the exception of one: the Pope's Chamberlain. He was actually interesting and the novel actually attempts to make him multi-dimensional. Unfortunately the last fifty pages of the novel become an exercise in destroying the nifty web of history, conspiracy, and some character development that was built up in the first 500. (It did not help that I figured out a key plot revalation about 300 pages before it happened thanks to the author's way too obvious attempt to be clever.) If the story had ended fifty pages sooner, this review would have been four stars. Unfortunately it becomes too much. But I did get a nice tour of Rome and a punch-drunk history lesson to boot, so it's not all bad.
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Summary: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE ALREADY READ DAVINCI CODE!!!!
Review: This book is exactly like the Davinci Code. Angels was written before Davinci so if you have not read Davinci it might be entertaining. I was only able to get 1/4 the way through the book before giving up due to the similarities. Davinci is great but steer clear of this if Davinci was read before. Gave 3 stars to be fair since I did not read all of the book.
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Summary: Angles and Demons
Review: Well written book with lots of well researched information. If you like suspense steeped with historical fact this is the book for you. The interplay between science and religion is well done, although short of delving into any one subject too deeply (as it should for a work of fiction). Overall an interesting well written book with some excellent twists. I would highly recommend reading it.
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Summary: Really Great Book
Review: This is the second book from Dan Brown that I have read. I just finished this story and it completely shocked me. It went from being interesting to a roller coaster ride that thrust me through so many emotions, so many obstacles, and compelling puzzles. Amazing - A religious conspiracy, a silent battle that rages between science and theology. Some say, it isn't for the weak of faith, which I find silly. If you are open minded and looking for one of those novels begging for its pages to be turned...look no further. I just read a copy of Edgar Fouche's 'Alien Rapture,' which also blew me away. Another fun book is Brad Steiger's 'Werewolf.' I also really liked Brown's 'Deception Point. Want to be shocked, check out Dr. Paul Hill's 'Unconventional Flying Objects' and always read the Amazon reviews.
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Summary: Great Religious Suspense- Too much Like DC
Review: This is a good book. Very well researched and well written. However, many of the characters are almost identical to those in the Da Vinci Code. The obvious example would be the similarities between Vittoria and Sophie. The ones that really dissapointed me were the almost exact similarities between Fache and Olivetti, Teabing and the Camerlengo, and even the lesser Vatican LT. with the French police LT! Just keep this in mind, he just used the same characters with different names. I hope he doesn't do the same for the sequal to Da Vinci Code.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: It was wonderful. Very thought provoking. If you like History, science, thrillers, and any book that makes you hang on to every word then here it is.
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