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Summary: Check your brain out before your read this!
Review: I bought Angels and Demons after reading The Da Vinci Code. I thought the plot in The Da Vince Code was a little unbelievable but I could live with it. Angels and Demons though is like check your brain out as you read it. I can't believe his publisher or Mr. Brown himself would think his readers are this brain dead. Fiction has to be somewhat believable at least for me especially when he begins with this is fact... Buy the book but if you find yourself saying give me a break as you flip the pages especially at the end, remember I told you so.
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Summary: His best effort
Review: While ANGELS & DEMONS is so much like THE DA VINCI CODE that it's not funny, (both start with a murder; both wrestle with science vs. religion; both have Langdon trying to solve a murder; both are fast-paced thrillers; etc) I found the writing and overall effectiveness of A&D to be far above the other novels Brown has written. If you have to choose a Dan Brown novel, folks, this is the one to pick. Also recommended: McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD and Brown's DECEPTION POINT
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Summary: Check your brain out before your read this!
Review: I gave Angels and Demons 2 stars. I bought this book after reading The Da Vinci Code. I thought The Da Vinci Code was a good read. The plot in Angels and Demons is just too unbelievable. Mr. Brown should consider adding some other people to his review committee. I can't believe the publisher thought his readers were this brain dead. This book given some revisions could have been awesome. If you buy the book, be prepared to check your brain out as the story unfolds.
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Summary: Dan Brown scores again (The Da Vinci Code guy)
Review: Dan Brown scores again with his novel "ANGELS AND DEMONS. The Book starring Robert Langdon (the character in THE DA VINCI CODE) discusses the everlasting struggle between Science and Religon, and even suggests a direct connection between the two extremes of the spectrum. The book begins with the murder of world renowed scientist Leonardo Vetra. The director of the facility that Vetra worked in calls in Langdon to decrypt the mysterious message branded into Vetra's chest by the killer. The brand leads Langdon to believe a bomb has been placed in the Vatican set to explode during the papal elections as to murder all the cardinals. Langdon and Vittiora Vetra (leonardo's daughter) embark on a quest along an anchient path to save the cardinals and the catholic relgion from damnation by a force as old as religon itself. Together they follow the path through catacombs, forgotten churches and secret lairs of the Brotherhood of the illuminati cult.
The characters have depth as well as the plot. ANGELS AND DEMONS follows along the same token as THE DA VINCI CODE and is a very fast paced, exciting, thriller not to missed by anyone, religous or not.
1.All referances to works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architechture in Rome is factual.
2. The Brotherhood of the illuminati is also factual.
3. Other Books by Dan Brown include THE DA VINCI CODE, DECEPTION POINT, AND DIGITAL FORTRESS.
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Summary: Petty reviews
Review: I couldn't believe the petty little criticisms on the part of the "reviewers" below. Let's don't say "reviewers", let's say "hacks". I think these goofballs have their own agenda -"'dissing" authors they don't like for reasons other than a book review. If you are going to discredit an author, pick something better to critize than verb usage, et al.
This book may have some sloppy mistakes; it is a long book and must have had some sloppy editing and proof readers. However, the mistakes do NOT detract from the story as the "reviewers" below inaccurately accuse. The book is FICTION, knuckleheads. Fiction means NOT TRUE. Get it? NOT true. I'd bet a lot of money that there are other reasons for their criticism. Catholic, anyone?
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Summary: best selling, but why?
Review: A hideous, godawful, video game masquerading as a novel. There is not one single character to care about and all the frenetic plotting just exaggerates this deficiency. I never even found out if they saved the Vatican cause I couldn't be bothered. I will avoid Dan Brown's work like it has Anthrax in it.
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Summary: Page-turning Entertainment
Review: I gladly admit I couldn't put this book down. It is tremendously suspenseful and carefully crafted. This is must reading for those who have lost faith with fiction. There are several errors, though: A double noun gets a singular verb, Sunday School is erroneously imputed to Roman Catholics, misunderstanding of the immaculate conception for the virgin birth, the difference between the resurrection of Jesus and his ascension, and a helicopter that races up without our knowing what happened to it -- minor annoyances considering the otherwise painful attention to detail. Readers looking for prosaic style of a James, Nabokov, McCarthy, etc., will not find it here. The syntax is simple and the semantics should be discernable to anyone with a ninth grade education. While the writing is not erudite, the subject matter often is. When the novel stumbles on a subject that the general reader might not know, Brown provides a definition. The story is flawed by being uneven; much too much detail is spent on the minutae of clues, and little effort goes into the furtherance of the plot. After spending 400 pages of chasing one clue after another, it would have been nice to have more detail spent on plot development. The begiing and ending seemed hurriedly piecemeal and disappointing. All in all, the book is a satisfying experience. Conspiracy theorist will have a heyday. I doubt anyone will fail to have some fun.
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Summary: Captivating!
Review: I read both "Angels and Demons" and "DaVinci Code" in one seating. I couldn't put them down. The author has obviously spent hours in the library doing research on the topic he writes about. I respect that and welcome it. I am looking forward to the next adventure of Robert Langdon!
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Summary: Angels and Demons scores big time
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was a really good page turner. How can anyone put down an exciting novel about Robert Langdon following a trail full of murder mystery and even some cool facts about history? Langdon is called to Switzerland to try to help someone solve a murder with a strange brand on it. From there, he is whisked to Vatican City in Rome. He is following the clues of an assasian and is trying to stop the Vatican from blowing up because a bomb has been hidden in it. The ending is a real shocker. This is a great book to read when you're bored or when you want some exciting book to read. I wouldnt classify this as great literature, but it sure is fun.
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Summary: Two Wings Up For Angels And Demons
Review: With his elegant writing style and intriguing facts, Dan Brown has sent me once again on an epic journey through his novel, Angels & Demons. The book is fast paced from page one, building with every chapter. I have read all four of Dan Brown's novels and I personally believe that this book is his finest, measuring up to even The Da Vinci Code, Brown's most popular book. What I love about this book is all of the information you ascertain. There's all of the beautiful artwork and structures that you get to picture with your imagination. Each of the places that the protagonist Robert Langdon and his partner Vittoria Vetra visit are full of extravagant structures that most people will probably never get the privilege to visit.
The main problem with the book is its lack of character development. It's difficult to understand the characters and their motives until you're halfway through the book. The plot, on the other hand, makes up for the weak character development. The books main character, Robert Langdon, is sent to a Swiss research facility to discern the hidden meaning in a symbol saying "Illuminati" branded onto a murdered man, Leonardo Vetra. He and Vetra's daughter, Vittoria, go on a journey to find a substance called antimatter that will blow up the Vatican at midnight. They visit many churches, chasing after an assassin that kills a cardinal every hour, yet they are always one step behind. In the end there is one final twist that turns everything around and makes you question who you can still trust.
What is such an amazing theme in this book that reoccurs countless times is the duality of nature. White and black, yin and yang, matter and antimatter, all of these are complete opposites and always in twos. Another spectacular thing Brown does are his ambigrams, words that when turned upside down look exactly the same right side up. He created an ambigram for the words "angels and demons, illuminati, earth, air, fire, and water." Once I realized that he used duality as one of his themes in his book, so many things I read in his novel involved pairs.
Though many people have disliked this book because of its rushed plot, I am personally fond of that style of writing. For example, when I read The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, I was amazed by the fact that he had created a whole world separate from our own. I found, though, that the book was difficult to read at times because of its ten page descriptions. Angels and Demons is definitely a book that you would want to read while sitting next to a computer to look up all of the information that Brown informs us of. I believe that this book will compare favorably to other classic novels. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a novel that is truly a piece of beauty.
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