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Summary: Stayed up all night!
Review: This is definately Dan Brown's best. A complete page turner from beginning to end. I have lent this book to several friends who got mad at me for keeping them up late at night because they couldn't put it down. I have read all of Brown's and find this and DaVinci code the best. Deception point was a bit of a yawner. You won't regret reading this one!
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Summary: Not Worth The Time
Review: Angels and Demons would be a wonderful book if Dan Brown could write. The premise is compelling, the anagrams are fascinating, the science presented is interesting.The problem is that the pace is off, the characters too easily solve the puzzles(no new information has been presented about the current conundrum, but somehow, the answer that has elluded our imminent symbologist heretofore suddenly pops into his brain--just in the nick of time to avoid death and destruction. That scenario is believable one time, but Dan Brown does it again and again.), and the attacks on the church eventually began to annoy this reader. I was hoping for an intelligent thriller...instead, I got a book that just couldn't deliver. Umberto Eco and even Michael Connelly are much more worthwhile authors.
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Summary: Bravo once again, Mr. Brown
Review: In a world of stories that are predictable and boring, Dan Brown has truly delieved a masterpiece that will keep you guessing until the end. The history of Rome and tidbits about the Vatican City mesh perfectly with the plot and not once does the book get bogged down. Ther is nothing better, in my mind, than a book that makes you think you know what is going to happen, challenges your hypothesis, and ultimately goes above and beyond what you had guessed. Great read!
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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: Great story, a real page turner! I loved it. I couldn't put the book down, and stayed up all night reading it from cover to cover. Awesome plot, and kind of creepy... becuase it could be totally real (Wish i had enough money to fly over and find out for myself :-) ). Highly reccomended book, easy to follow along with and keep track of everything that's going on.
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Summary: You may be deceived... more than you can expect
Review: All right, Dan Brown needs no further introductions and accolades for being, for sure, one of the most original and intriguing character in the international showcase. The problem is once you've picked up one of his book you can expect to be deceived up to the point when you usually think "Now I got it all, I could read no further and write the end myself". And that's it: now you a REALLY being deceived! Therefore, opposite to what happens in warm approaches to his superbe writing and imaginative skills, like Deception Points and Digital Fortress (you may as well read them as a good "warm up"), Angels & Demons is something that really "flabbergast" you. You reach the end and you just want to backtrack every single page to get more and more of the splendid work Dan did in deceiving you up to the very last paragraph. In a nutshell: one of the best and most original pageturner with and exquisite and most refreshing lack of cheap gore and violence, all in favour of real and mindboggling entertainment.
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Summary: Good Summer Read
Review: This was a good summer read, full of excitement and mystery. The author wrote the book in such a way that you don't know what is going to happen until the end. It was full of twists and turns and I loved every minute of it. The book was a quick read and I would tell a thriller/mystery lover to read it!!!
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Summary: Angels & Demons: A Good But Flawed Thriller
Review: Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons has many things to recommend it: a well-paced plot, interesting characters, and above all a modern clash of two ancient enemies in a fascinating setting. There are, however, some serious flaws in this novel. There is a wealth of historical information presented, and some of it is obviously complete fiction woven in with fact to make for an interesting story. There are, however, some errors which seem to be the result of faulty research. For example, the protagonist (Robert Langdon, a religious symbologist) thinks that "Novus Ordo Seclorum" means "New Secular Order," which it does not. Another character (a priest in the Vatican) thinks that the Catholic Church embraces Creationism, which it does not. These mistakes along with others mar what is otherwise an enjoyable read.
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Summary: Another great Dan Brown novel!
Review: This is my 2nd foray into the world of Robert Langdon, Dan Brown's reoccurring Harvard symbologist. Ironically, this is Langdon's first appearance, his 2nd being "The Da Vinci Code", which I read first. Perhaps because I read "The Da Vinci Code" first, I thought it was a bit better than "Angels & Demons". Or perhaps it's because "The Da Vinci Code" allowed me to do a bit of sleuthing on my own and presented a challenging array of puzzles--a couple of which I was proud to solve. No matter, "Angels & Demons" itself is an excellent piece of work. Again, as in "The Da Vinci Code", the reader is very aware that Dan Brown has put in an enormous amount of research and effort into writing this amazing book. The lines between fiction and non-fiction are blurred as many of the details of the book revolve around true things. I do not want to spoil the book for future readers, so I will give a very basic overview of the book. Leonardo Vetra, a leading scientist at CERN (the real-life world's largest particle physics center) has been killed and branded with a horrible ancient symbol....an ambigram (a word that reads the same upside down as rightside up) of the word ILLUMINATI, an ancient foe of the Catholic Church. Perhaps more disturbing is that Vetra had discovered a way to actually create antimatter, the perfect energy source. Depending upon its use, however, it could either be the most efficient energy source (a droplet could fuel New York City for an entire day) or for a means of mass destruction (a single gram has enough destruction as a 20 kiloton nuclear bomb--like that used on Hiroshima). Moreover, antimatter is extremely unstable and if it comes into contact with anything, even air, it will annihilate. Again, antimatter is a real thing, not fiction. What do the Illuminati, Catholic Church, CERN, and antimatter have to do with each other? You will have to read the book to find out. Dan Brown provides a fast-paced read and an enlightening view of art, history, and faith (though I would not consider this a religious book by any means...don't read it if you're looking for a religious experience). Brown has thoroughly researched his material in order to write a thrilling book of action, mystery, and suspense. The most amazing thing is though the plot is unlikely, it is thoroughly believable because much of the information contained in the book is true. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book.
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Summary: highly engrossing
Review: This earlier book by the author of The DaVinci Code offers the same sort of scintific/religous mystery. The bulk of the story takes place within a 24 hour period and has the same protagonist as DaVinci Code. Once again the story revolves around a secret society, and the suspense is quite palpable. Read this before DaVinci and you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Could not put it down
Review: In the same way I go through James Patterson's Alex Cross series,unable to stop and put the book down, so it was with Angels & Demons. The story is a great thriller and has a new hero Robert Langdon.What I like most about the story was it's sophistication, fast pace and great value in exposing audience to art history.Everyone I turned on to this book loves it!
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