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Summary: Not an engaging book at all
Review: What book were these other reviewers reading?!?The Illuminati lore is poorly researched, the plot painfully transparent, and the overall pace of the book is erratic. If you are stuck in an airport, and need SOMETHING to read, I guess this book is okay. You'll probably finish it by the end of the flight, and can safely dispose of it in the destination airport's garbage can.
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Summary: A Fun Read, but Do Your Homework
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. As did my wife who read it a few months before me. We both agreed that a particular action point toward the end of the book was so unrealistic that it was almost a downer. Besides that, a lot of fun. We've also both read the Da Vinci Code and I have similar compliments for that book too. But for both books, I would stress that if you are looking for factual and complete information on history, science or religion, please, please, please do not turn to Dan Brown alone. He can spark your interest, but please do your homework and find respected sources that know what they are talking about. Remember Dan Brown is a fine novelist and he has done enough research to make his novels compelling, but this does not make him a scholar or an authority figure on history, religion or any other sphere outside his range of competency.
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Summary: Ham handed writing: bad sci-fi plot meets daytime TV dialog
Review: I got 50 pages into this book and had to stop. This is hack writing at its most tedious. Perhaps Brown can put together a plot, but his writing is pathetic. His characters are not believable. In the first few pages his Harvard professor protagonist receives a phone call and gets on a private plane at the request of someone he doesn't know and doesn't even bother to ask where he's going. The dialog of characters supposed to be world class physicists reads like high school students. Brown laboriously explains references that require none. Nothing here is remotely believable. Mach 15 civilian aircraft? Free-fall chambers? Living quarters that can be turned into freezers at the turn of a dial? Oh, but wait, here comes the world class physicist who happens to also be a world class babe, daughter of a priest (???) who's also a yoga master. 50 pages in we've got nameless assassins visiting brothels, ancient secret societies and super underground scientific research centers. Sounds like James Bond, or perhaps more accurately, Austin Powers. Check out this passage from page 23: --> "Friction," Kohler said. "Decreases her aerodynamics so the fan can lif her." He started down the the (sic) corridor again. "One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent." Langdon nodded blankly. He never suspected that later that night, in a country hundreds of miles away, the information would save his life. <--- Oh, well there's a cliff hanger! Please. Maybe this kind of writing would be suitable for a video game, but it just doesn't hold my interest. Perhaps it was a mistake to pick this up after reading several Dennis Lehane novels (someone who can actually write), but I find this drivel impossible to read. I like a good adventure yarn, but the writer has to have some skill. If you can ignore poor writing mechanics and let the plot carry you, perhaps you'll enjoy this book. If you expect authors to have any degree of writing skill or respect for their reader's intelligence, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Riveting! You'll stay awake until the wee hours with this!
Review: The Da Vinci Code introduced me to the world of Dan Brown, a talented author with a gift for suspense. There are many parallels between Angels and Demons and DVC (Da Vinci Code), so any fan of DVC is sure to love this.
Robert Langdon, our protagonist in this opus is aging, but is still quite good in his field, (religious symbolism.) The ultimate test comes in the middle of the night when an intriguing and disturbing fax is sent to his home. The fax is of a corpse that has been branded (yes, burned) with the word Illuminati.
The reader soon finds that the Illuminati was (is?) an ancient secret brotherhood made up of the finest minds in science. Over time, the group's goal of enlightenment backfired and turned into a vendetta against the Catholic Church, based on the trouble that the Church has given scientists over the years.
The Illuminati, it seems have started a full-scale, no compromises war against the Church that is going to last one day, and at the end of that day will be the complete destruction of the Vatican (literally!).
Langdon's purpose and goal is to use his knowledge to sieze the information needed to stop the Illuminati in their evil game.
This book is fascinating, and you are virtually guaranteed to love it! Cheers!
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Summary: Another Dan Brown classic
Review: I read "The Da Vinci Code"...and soon after I got "Angels and Demons" because I knew it would be good...and it was very good. The only downfall to this book are the moments that are too far fetched. There are a couple moments in this book that I found myself thinking "that could never happen" and it took away from the story because "The Da Vinci Code" was very realistic. But besides that, this book is very hard to put down. Dan Brown writes in a way that he introduces different characters and different story lines and keeps approaching the point where they all merge into the climax of the story...and it's very easy to read for hours on end just anticipating what's about to happen next. A lot of twists and turns, and if you liked "The Da Vinci Code" you'll like this as well. If you haven't read either, I'd suggest "The Da Vinci Code" first. I just bought "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown and can't wait to read that one!
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Summary: One of the Best Books of the Decade
Review: ~The first book of the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown has recieved phenominal reviews and is personally my favorite book. ~As Robert Langdon a Harvard Religious Symboligist Professor recieves a strange call from an advanced European Science Reseach Center called CERN. They report a fellow scientist was murdered by the satanic cult the Illumnati (a cult missing for more than 500 years). As he discovers that the illumnati has stolen a weapon more powerful than a nuclear warhead and planted it in the Vatican, it is a race to find the stolen religion and prevent the annihlation of the Cathlic Relgion. ~This book is just as addicting as the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown is in the works of two more Robert Langdon novels taking place in London and Washington D.C. ~A Must Read Book!!!
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Summary: dan brown fans will love this book...
Review: a bit disappointing how the plot structure parallels the da vinci code (i guess it should be the other way around being that angels and demons was written first). but you will get the same thrills, an original storyline, a page-turning thriller, edge of your seat action combined with intelligence. this book was predictable, but overall, you wont be disappointed.
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Summary: Thrilling Page Turner!
Review: Don't start this book unless you have the time to finish it because it is very difficult to rip yourself away from this thrilling page turner!
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Summary: Did Illuminati kidnap the real Brown?
Review: The Dan Brown of "Angels" is a far better writer that the hack who ground out "DaVinci Code," making me wonder if the real author got a little close to the conspiracy. . .Seriously, "Angels" is a fun read, and actually goes into some depth about Vatican history, Italian art and the tourist traps of Rome. The plot takes some nice twists, and pops some genuine surprises on the reader. Excellent villains as well. The only similarities to "Code" are the cardboard cutout heroine and convoluted conspiracy that stinks of anti-Catholic bigotry. Come on, if the Vatican were that powerful, there'd be no abortion clinics to picket or priest-abuse scandals to read about. Perhaps if Brown takes as much care with his next novel as he did with this one, he can regain his literary self-respect after the "DaVinci" farce.
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Summary: very good
Review: i very love this story......in fact, i really want to give for this book 10 stars
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