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Summary: One of the best authors ever
Review: If you don't like books that you can't put down don't read Dan Brown. If you're like the rest of us, who love great research and mind blowing twists, then you'll love: Angles & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and the rest of Dan Brown's works.
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Summary: Very Cool
Review: I happen to like religous controversy which is maybe why I loved this and the Da Vinci Code. Although not quite as good as the Da Vinci Code, this book is a great read.
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Summary: Excellent book, But DA VINCI way better
Review: I recently finished The Da Vinci code, and I have to say this was one of the most intriguing and suspenceful books I have ever read. I enjoyed this book alot, and I heard there was another book with Robert Langdon. So I went and got Angels and Demons, and started to try it. I love the way the author writes and I really like Robert Langdon, but I cant help but feel , that Angels and Demons isnt the same as DA VINCI.Didnt give off the same feeling. It was great, I read it in a good 14 hours, but sometimes I wanted to stop and pick up another book. He( Dan Brown ) fails to get the same groove in this book as he did with Da Vinci..... its a great read, but nothing like his bestseller.
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Summary: BEST EVER!
Review: Being an avid reader of mysteries, thrillers, and fiction, I can honestly say that Angels and Demons is the best non-literary book I have ever read. I read the The Di Vinci Code and enjoyed it. So, I got Brown's first book and I could not put it down. I found it to be to a total page-turner. I learned alot about the history of the Vatican, the Illuminati, Bernini, and Rome. After finishing the book, I am eager to learn more about the above subjects.
Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is very likable and a good person to center a book around. If you want a fantastic read, want a "got to finish it, can't wait for the next chapter" buy this book. Scale of 1-10, a 20!
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Summary: Don't buy this when cannot afford to go without sleep
Review: The Adobe E-book reader is how I read it on a tablet PC. The PC's little CPU fan was laboring furiously as tablet PCs tend to overheat after hours of use :)I couldn't predict the book, and I'm pretty good at figuring out plots. The ending is truely twisted, and yet so believable. This book is graphic and grisley; the images are vivid, horrific, and show just how cruely one man may take the life of another. Don't read this unless you can handle this. What amazes me the most is the depth of research that must have been performed to create this book. My scientific knowledge is fairly decent. Matter and Anti-matter reactions may very well leapfrog nuclear fusion if this book is correct. I'm only giving away a tidbit of the early part of the books, so don't worry. What is also amazing is that no matter what is true and what is made up, everything comes across as believable, interwoven, and integrated at a level that is very unusual for a work of fiction. Add a real plot, with real characters, and only a tiny weakness in the love story development and a suspence thriller par-excellant is the result. Enjoy the book. Do not plan on sleeping.
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Summary: A rough draft of The Da Vinci Code
Review: Having read and enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, I decided to investigate Dan Brown's previous works. My first choice was Angels and Demons and the similarities between both works are glaring, to put it mildly. Don't get me wrong, it's quite an enjoyable page turner (although at times I felt like throwing the book against the wall and screaming "ENOUGH!"), but the story stretches credibility to the breaking point. Like Da Vinci Code, Brown is very informative about Christianity and you do learn a great deal that you might not have known before - like the origins of that strange pyramid on the back of a dollar bill. Another plus is the very interesting plot twists at the end of the book that make reading it worthwhile.
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Summary: Be A ScreenWriter Software 7.0
Review: I liked this book better when it was called THE DA VINCI CODE. Brown writes for one reason and one reason only, and it affects his stories horribly. This narrative suffers similarly. Why?Because Brown devotes all his writing energies toward procuring that big movie deal. He screams it. So much so, he daringly compares his protagonist to Harrison Ford. (Wink wink, hint hint Hollywood. Look at me...I've written this book just for you. Call me!). But he falls short. His writing is extremely shallow and simplistic, and therefore more appropriate for TV. And not necessarily prime time standards. His is more relegated to one of those late night syndicated shows starring anonymous 20-something faces, filmed in Canada on the cheap; with lots of cliff hangars and chapter breaks to allow for bounteous commercials of weight loss products and perpetually-sharp carving knives. But hey, what do I know? His books are flying off the shelves. He's doing something right. Maybe it's a form of pulp fiction. Great. Or maybe a brain candy for those wishing to read a comic book - without the graphics. Fine too. But me, I'll just keep my eye on my local Fox affiliate and see if any of his stuff shows up somewhere between THE LOST WORLD and BEASTMASTER at 3 in the morning.
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Summary: Moderately entertaining, but utter trash.
Review: This is not the sort of thing you read and keep proudly on your bookshelf, perhaps with the intention of going back to it again and again. Working in the vein of Umberto Eco's masterful (but flawed) "Foucault's Pendulum," Dan Brown spins a Ludlumesque thriller centered on a centuries-old secret society, the Illuminati, and their use of a brand-new science-fictional technology stolen from a European institute to attempt to destroy their nemesis, the Vatican. To say that the premise is a bit daft would be obvious; to note that the prose is barely literate would be superfluous (I doubt anyone is buying this expecting a brilliant command of the language). This is complete crap, and after a quick and frustrating scan of this book you can be sure that I now will _not_ be picking up Brown's latest in this series, "The Da Vinci Code," despite all the good press it's gotten. But even if you approach this book on its own abysmal level, you will find a lot wrong with it. The treatment of science, of scientists and of scientific institutes is perhaps a step above your average James Bond flick, but not a large one. And the philosophical argument underlying the science fiction here--the creation of matter as a way of rationally supporting the existence of God--is laughably poor (no halfway intelligent Christian or atheist would be challenged by the fictional breakthrough described here). To get some idea of where this novel is coming from, take the first few chapters, in which Harvard "symbologist" Robert Langdon is faxed a photo of a corpse with an oddly symmetrical brand burned into its chest (said brand, naturally, consists of the word "Illuminati," but in a form that reads the same when turned upside-down). We read that the symbol makes Langdon's heart pound, makes him feel as if he's been hit by a truck, makes him tremble, etc. For god's sake, why? It's just a symbol, and supposedly one he's never seen before, only heard of. Why does it not occur to him that _anyone_ could have fabricated a seal reading "Illuminati" in two directions? I mean, they made it up for this book, right? Brown is enough of a professional to move his narrative along brisquely, and to sprinkle each chapter with enough forewarnings of what is to come, and enough cliffhangers, to keep the average reader going. But it's all artifice over a hollow core--the characters are cardboard cutouts from a Ludlum novel; no one behaves in any fashion that might resemble a normal human being; and it is quite clear that while Brown researched enough to bluster his way through a superficial discussion, he really doesn't know anything about either science or religion. Only worth your time if this sort of dreck is what you really like to read.
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Summary: I did not think it was going to get me...
Review: I started the book and could not get into it... put it down... read two other books - ran out of reading material and picked it back up. BOY AM I GLAD! I got hooked on the history and the play between science and religion and belief systems, all woven through a wonderful actionpacked edge of my chair story!
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Summary: Non-Stop Thrills
Review: Angels & Demons is the kind of book that only succeeds for me if I find it difficult to put down while reading. From this standpoint, this is a great book. It reads easily, has an engaging story, and doesn't lack for thrills, action, mystery, plot twists, interesting settings, and a palatable (i.e. very slight) amount of romance. For those looking for a bit more depth, Brown has even provided a few thought-provoking comments on the state of Roman Catholicism. If I have any objection to the story it's that the ending is a bit much. It makes for thrilling reading, but I felt a bit overwhelmed after the fourth or fifth plot twist. Other readers' tolerance for wild endings will surely differ from mine.
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