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Summary: Very entertaining
Review: I read The DaVinci Code first and loved the book. I needed more so I picked up Angels and Demons and enjoyed it as well. Good work of fiction and an easy read. Also read Digital Fortress, not as good as the other two but would probably make a good movie.
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Summary: Now I can finally sleep!
Review: Is this book worth your time and money? There is only one way for me say this: I finished the book in a 24 hour period...at 3 am...I go to work at 6 am. My biggest complaint with this book is that it doesn't give you a logical stopping point to get on with your life, no boring lulls that allow you to get some sleep.
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Summary: I felt cheated! Don't bother!
Review: I just put down the "Davinci Code" and I couldn't wait to read more, so I picked up "Angels and Demons". Wonderful! I FIRST thought....I was mesmorized at the beginnning of the book - then (UNFORTUNATELY) - I get to the end and the book and it totally untangles with ridiculous events. After I read the Davinci Code, I talked about it and lent the book to my friends. But Angels and Demons went right into the trash!
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Summary: better than The Da Vinci Code
Review: Being a Catholic, I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code very much (the Mary Magdalene theory is fascinating to me) and when I learned that Dan Brown had actually written an earlier book featuring his hero, art history professor Robert Langdon, I knew I had to track it down. Well, due to the popularity of The Da Vinci Code, it was not hard: I found a mountain of Brown's books at Price Club! Now that I've read both Langdon books I can declare that Angels and Demons is the better of the two! It's a richer story about a mad plot to destroy the Catholic Church by killing the Cardinals of Rome and annihilating Vatican City itself! Plus it's a better-written thriller which established a formula that was re-used in The Da Vinci Code. I could NOT put it down.
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Summary: You had me at hello. You lost me at goodbye.
Review: I'm not giving this book one star because it has NO redeemable qualities. In fact, for 3/4 of the book I was totally won over and could not wait to whip the credit card out to purchase the Da Vinci Code. I'm glad I waited until I had completed the book though. My profound disappointment in the ending is what drives me to one star. Unfair probably, but I could not believe that a plot that had me hook, line and sinker could totally unravel at the end. It seems that many books, movies, tv shows today try and "get" you with the surprise twist ending. This generation is too savvy for that now. All one needs to do to figure out "whodunit" is look for the most unlikey character, besides the hero, and there is your bad guy. Angels & Demons does the same thing. Worse, as brilliant as some of the writing, plot and characterization is in the first 3/4s, it's almost like reading a totally different book in the end. How many "Luke I am your father" moments can I have in one lifetime? The ending is too spastic, too contrived and too superficial for a book that prided itself on making you read between the lines at first. Finally, this book is a cliched mess. Now maybe real life Harvard professors of religion iconography are also J.Crew models, but would it be too much to ask for Langdon to be less than handsome. . .maybe even a little socially awkward. We already have Indiana Jones, and he did it way better than this. Sorry Mr. Brown, you write one heck of a premise, it's your endings that need a lot of work.
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Summary: "Her cell phone had no dial tone..."
Review: Of course her cell phone had no dial tone--no cell phone does. His protagonist's claim that early Christians got the Eucharist from Aztec culture is just as preposterous--Christians and the Eucharist were around long before Europeans discovered Aztec culture. These are just a couple of examples of Dan Brown's lazy story telling. I'm with Stephen King on this one. The Da Vinci Code wasn't a good book and neither is this one. It's too bad a hack has gotten ahold of an otherwise fascinating genre.
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Summary: Pretty good, about 3 1/2 stars
Review: Fun book, but not nearly as interesting as Da Vinci Code.
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Summary: Exceptional Screenplay for a possible Hollywood flick
Review: Dan Brown definitely has the ability to grab and hold an attention. I read this book from cover to cover, almost continuously. I like the pace of the whole story, and looking back, it is unbelievable that what has been described is essentially over a 24 hour time frame. I never was that interested in conspiracy theories, but this is one book which definitely captured my imagination. I of course also admired the ambigrams of the four elements and the Name of Illuminati.. and the very clever ambigram of the title: "Angels and Demons".
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Summary: What a page-turner; Read this before The DaVinci Code
Review: Excellent book. Thanks to a friend's recommendation, I read this book first before The Da Vinci Code, and I recommend you do the same. The plot, and the detail art & religious history are the high points. The only negative is the "formulaic writing" other reviewers have mentioned. Once you've read one of Dan Brown's books, the plots of the others feel very familiar.
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Summary: I DON'T BUY IT
Review: I was so happy reading this book. It is well-written with plenty of little known Catholic facts and non-stop action. The last part of the book was where I started having trouble. The ending was not consistent with the characterization that Dan Brown had developed. It went from a wonderful book - the best I've read in a long time - to one where the reader had to suspend belief to finish. Dan, work harder on the ending and I'll buy everything you write. Right now I'm afraid to read any more of your books for fear the ending will sag.
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