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Summary: fantastic read
Review: almost missed my connection out of chicago last week because I got so engrossed in this story / simply ingenious / borrowed book from a coworker (she raved) and never put it down / have met few thrillers this darned fun to devour / a few miniscule complaints about masonic history (being one myself) but tiny quibbles in an overall unforgettable read / highly recommended
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Summary: Preposterous Plot
Review: Did I read the same book as the other reviewers? Although, the book was full of very interesting facts, they were interwoven into the story in a very annoying way. The narrative was overly melodramatic, amateurish, and sometimes downright silly. For people with a deadline to meet they sure had a lot of time to discuss everything to death. The plot was just plain ludicrous.
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Summary: Some good ideas, but paltry substance.
Review: A candidate for the "wait for it in the paperback bargain bin" category.The intentions of this book are eminently noble, and one dreads to think on the midnight oil the author's research staff must have endured to discover some of the factual information set forth. But the lace-thin story just doesn't meet the requirements of the material, which ultimately serves as simple namedropping. Imagine reading a quick 200pp novellette about Buddhism, the CIA's inner sanctum, and Astrophysical Cosmology - a couple guys dashing around and blowing things up isn't going to cut it. But that's this book, more or less. So while the story ideas could have been, if developed, interesting, look to a thorough writer like Ludlum or Clancy to tell stories with the substance one looks for in such presupposed tales of intrigue. For example, if an author establishes the pretense of a group planning to destroy the Vatican, readers will justly expect to learn something meaty about the motives and expectations of these terrible people. But the Illuminati remain as much in the dark at the end of the story as they were in the beginning. So, the book, while it has a page or two of tasty sauce, really has no meat to speak of.
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Summary: INGENIOUS and INFORMATIVE
Review: "Angels and Demons" is one of the best thrillers I have ever read. Besides being unable to put the book down, my wife and I learned a great deal about the Catholic Church, Rome, and the creation of anti-matter in the laboratories of Switzerland. I was fascinated to learn about the connection between the secret Illuminati brotherhood, the Masons and even the U.S. one-dollar bill. Behind the superb story, there is a rich backdrop balancing the conflict and agreement between science and religion. With the election of a new pope in the foreseeable future and the November choice between Gore and Bush (with their admitted ties to the secret societies of the Masons and Skull and Bones), this book gives readers much to think about, provided they have time to catch their breath from all the surprises, chills and thrills in the ingenious plot. As a bonus, the ambigrams throughout the book are unbelievable!
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Summary: Best of the best
Review: As a voracious reader, I have read the best. "Angels and Demons" is a heart-stopping thriller that keeps you turning pages until you arrive exhausted at the end. You're truly "in on the chase." Improbable as it seems, Dan Brown has combined nuclear physics and antimatter with Renaissance art, old Rome and the Vatican. You conjure up the images in your mind, but the icing on the cake is Brown's Web site which shows you the CERN facilities, the plane and then the exquisite artwork of Bernini and others as well as a peek inside the Vatican. It's a book that teaches, makes you think, and entertains, all at the same time. Few authors can accomplish that. Thanks, Dan Brown. You have a new fan.
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Summary: Outstanding!!!!
Review: I would like to thank Dan Brown for such an outstanding novel. The only bad thing about this thriller is the fact that I'll have to read a lot more books to find one thats even near as entertaining and riveting as this one. The research was exceptional. The secrets that lie in wait for the reader will amaze you. The history and life in the Vatican, the story of the Illuminati, the science and research in physics, Galileo. These are just some of the things you'll learn about while on this rollercoaster ride of a book. A true 5 Star if ever there was one.... Highest recommendation........
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Summary: Another fast paced thriller from Dan Brown
Review: Dan Brown's second book, Angels and Demons, rivals the fast pace he set with Digital Fortress. Techies will love the antimatter and physics, and everyone will love the basic premise as well as the vivid detail that Dan Brown uses to bring the Vatican City to life. Take journeys where few men have been, and where few will ever go again. Angels and Demons is incredibly well researched, and Dan Brown uses real places to create the ultimate thriller to start out the new millenium, and to think about until the next.
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Summary: Judge this great book by its cover!
Review: Dan Brown has more than done it again! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. This book is definitely more than 10 stars. I have shown this ambigramic cover to over 25 different people. Everyone has said how did he do that? And over half said I was showing them the book upside down. And then when I show them the cover looks the same right side up or upside down, they can't believe it even more. The book is as great as the cover. Not only is it a great story, but it asks universal questions at the same time. Angels - Demons; God(s) - no God(s); Religion - Science; good - evil; life - death; love - hate; fiction? -fact?; matter - antimatter; light - dark; like - dislike; Illuminati - Catholicism; laughing - crying; pain - happiness; killings - miracles?; should we? or shouldn't we?, and many more. The sign of a good book for me is one that I can't put down until it ends. And this one ended (unfortunately) the same day I received it in the mail. Talk about not being able to put it down. (1)English - Latin - French - Greek (2)Earth - Air - Fire - Water (3)Nile - Ganges - Danube - Rio Plata (4)The Inquisition - Knights Templar - Cruscades - La Puga (5)Dissimulation - Camouflage (6)The Great Seal - The Great Castration (7)Hassassin - Terrorism (8)Iambic Pentameter - Couplets (9)Substantiate - Suffocate (10)Cross - Yin Yang - Jewish Star - Swastica (11)God - Illuminati - Shaitan - Satan (12)Antimatter - Time Zero - Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator - Airtight Nano Composite Shells (13)Kilotons - Weaponry - Payload - Destruction (14)Electron - Volts - Joules - Constuctive (15)Zeus - Janus - Poseidon - Helios (16)Michaelangelo - Basilica - Bernini - St Peter's Square (17)Marisa - Sachiko - Kanara - V. Vetra (18)Wahad - tintain - thalatha - arbaa (19)Galeleo - John Milton; Einstein - Dan Brown (20)Dan Brown - Exeter? Robert Langdon - Exeter. I can't believe all the information that Dan Brown has put into this book and made it all make sense. I'll bet the next time you take out a one dollar bill, you'll take a closer look at "The Great Seal." (1)Novus Ordo Seclorum - A New Order of The Ages (2)Annuit Coeptis-God Has Favored Our Undertaking (3)E Pluribus Unum - One Out Of Many (4)In God We Trust (5)13 leaves; 13 berries; 13 arrows; 13 stars; 13 layers on the pyramid; 13 letters in Annuit Coeptis; 13 letters in E Pluribus Unum Who said 13 was unlucky? Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? I know everyone will enjoy this great book! Don't forget Digital Fortress 128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78
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Summary: An Intelligent Thriller
Review: Dan Brown has produced a thriller that not only is a page-turner, but also covers a wide range of subjects as its protagonists fight an ancient enemy through the monuments of Rome. From nuclear physics through Renaissance art, the reader is swept along a path that will lead to a reluctance to turn out the light and go to bed, as the twists and turns of the plot force another page to be turned, and then another. Dan Brown's gift is to make it all connect in a plot that reads as if it came right from tomorrow's headlines. Dark and light, good and evil, religion and science all wind through Angels and Demons in unexpected patterns. A warning--you'll find it hard to put down and even harder to forget.
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Summary: Awesome thriller
Review: To fight the Catholic Church's inaccurate teachings, the most enlightened thinkers of sixteenth century Rome formed a fraternal organization The Illuminati. Their aim was to spread scientific information to the masses, but the Church condemned them as heretics and wanted them destroyed. The group was forced into hiding but promised to reveal themselves when they held the power to demolish their foe the Church. The Pope just died and the Cardinals are meeting in the Vatican to elect his replacement. The Church's security force, the Swiss Guard, notices a strange canister being broadcast by a video camera located somewhere in Vatican City. Maximillan Kohl of the CERN think tank in Geneva realizes that somebody has stolen the institute's supply of anti-matter, a weapon of mass destruction. Director Kohl sends symbiologist Robert Langdon and scientist Vittoria Vertra to Rome to assist the Church in the hunt for the deadly container that is set to blow up at midnight. The force of the explosion will destroy Vatican City and much of Rome. Robert and Vittoria race against time to find and defuse a doomsday machine before it savages a powerful organization and kills many innocents. Dan Brown, author of the critically acclaimed DIGITAL FORTRESS, has created another frantic paced, pulse pounding thriller that rivals the best works of Clancy and Cussler. The action-packed tale takes readers on an exciting adventure that feels perilously real. ANGELS AND DEMONS is one reading experience that the audience will never forget. Harriet Klausner
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