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Summary: Who killed the Pope(s)?
Review: This book is like a man who gets on his horse and rides off in all directions. I kept looking for the central problem and found it--or rather them--everywhere. Dead popes, about-to-explode antimatter, secret societies, beautiful female scientists, assassins, and more escapes from death than I've seen since I went to the Saturday kids' serials.
The writing is atrocious; Brown uses the protagonist's name about seven times in each paragraph, even when he's the only person in the scene, and his many, may errors glare: for instance, he calls the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr "the prayer of St. Francis" (and quotes the serenity prayer incorrectly). He describes Bernini's *Ecstasy of St. Teresa* as St. Teresa's being "on her back"; but in the sculpture she is kneeling upright as the angel stabs her heart with his spear.But I kept readiing to the end, maybe because it's hard to jump off a galloping horse. I loved the science at the beginning, enjoyed some of the improbable action, and wondered if Brown wrote the last twenty-or-so pages, since they didn't sound like his style. What astounded me most wasn't the twist ending, the resurrection of the Illuminati, the ambigrams or the revelations about previous popes' deaths: it was his acknowledgment page in which he thanks editors at his publishing company. Editors? Surely anyone who edited this book would have caught the errors.
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Summary: Recommended
Review: Although I found this novel to be an exciting and fast-paced adventure mystery, I didn't think it was as good as Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Maybe Dan Brown just got better the second time around or maybe I should have read "Angels & Demons" first. I didn't find "Angels & Demons" to be quite as believable as "The Da Vinci Code." Robert Langdon is definitely a well thought out character and very likeable. The ins and outs of his adventure held my interest. I didn't want to not finish this book. However, I could not put The Da Vinci Code down, whereas this one took me a little longer to finish. Dan Brown definitely puts a lot of time and reserach into his books and I look forward to his next mystery!
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Summary: Just a bit of fun
Review: First of all, I would like to say that I enjoyed this book immensely - because it is a real page turner, and Dan Brown really knows how to write a good story. For all the people who may be turned off by the reviews that point out the factual inaccuracies and impossibility of the actions of characters, don't be. Who cares if a few facts are incorrect? Most people aren't going to know, and why bother pointing them out to the world, and spoil the book? I don't think Dan Brown intended Angels and Demons to be a reference point for scholars, just a novel a person can sit down with, and have a darn good time. If you want to know more about the things he talks about (e.g. the symbolism, the Illuminati, the Masonics, etc), go to a library.
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Summary: justenjoysagoodread
Review: How do I rate this book? Quite simply - I could not put it down. Everything was postponed until I finished. I found this book quite rivoting and enjoyable. I do understand that it is a book of fiction and treat it as such. It was fascinatingly entertaining. I loved the detail in which he described the Vatican. I know nothing of the Vatican, but the way in which Dan Brown described it, it sounds mysteriously mystical and full of history. As in most books, I figured out where we were heading just before we got there, but it was a fun ride - a little grusome, but exciting none-the-less. I have no religious partiality - I have an open mind. Read and enjoy a good suspenseful piece of fiction with a few historic, scientific, and geographic facts thrown in. Dan Brown's books are like travel fiction. They take you places.
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Summary: Poor
Review: Implausible and contrived with an unbelievably singular plot line. It's difficult to NOT figure out who-done-it half way through the book. Skip this one!
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Summary: Angels & Demons
Review: Dan Brown's thrilling prequel to The DaVinci code is a must-read for his fans. Yet another blend of art, science and mystery, this action-packed adventure delivers excitement and intrigue. Robert Langdon becomes tangled up in a race to save the Vatican from a powerful and dangerous new scientific discovery. He and his new-found partner Vittoria Vetra, who is looking for answers for her father's murder, must decipher an ancient path that will lead them to secrets beyond their imaginations. As with The DaVinci Code, this is a work of fiction. If you are looking for a book to critique details, then you will miss the fun of the book.
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Summary: Angels & Demons
Review: Dan Brown is at it again, some say that this book is full of mistakes and wasn't edited the way a book should be. But, looking beyond a few mistakes and you have a book that will hold you on the edge of your chair. A high tech thriller that seems to bounce from one place to the next keeping the reader holding on to book and finding it hard to put it down. A must read- Larry Hobson Author- The Day Of The Rose
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Summary: Great book
Review: I'm tired of seeing so many reviews from people who clearly live to find faults. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a long time. A great thrill ride.
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Summary: Beware the Illuminati book
Review: This book is surprise after surprise after surprise -- but always presented in conversation. I haven't seen so much exposition since the movie Tora Tora Tora (which I actually like anyway). This book is a five hundred page repetitive cycle: personality-less people talking, teaching us some interesting history laced with a shocker or three; quick race against time to new location, arriving just too late; new person on scene inadvertantly, but luckily, provides a clue; lots more on-site educating and surprising.
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Summary: Awesome Plot
Review: I bought this book while I was reading " Da Vinci Code". When I finished with the code took this one and my though was that an earlier book of the "Robert Langdon" series will be no better the last one, but I was wrong, the reading in this book was far more supeior than the other. This is a "cat and mouse" run from start to finish, and your are hold in this religious plot, that holds you in the edge of your seat until the final revelation that is not even the peak of the mountain. Please is only a book for reading not for finding the errors of the author or locations that appear in the book. Reading should be fun, entertaining.
If you liked the book, recomend the title to others, no spend your time in critics that make no sense, technicals details that most of the readers don't care about it.
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