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Angels and Demons
By Dan Brown
Fiction
2000
This is the first story of Robert Lagdon the character from the famed book and movie "Davinci Code." Tells the story of this symbologist trying to stop murders of 4 cardnials and hoping to stop a bomb that is planted in the Vaticain city. He is brought in becuase he knows about the history of a cult that is behind the killings.
The book uses a ton of hisorical facts and places to build a fictinaol story that keeps you on your toes. The main theme of the book is science vs religion and people on either side of the story can enjoy it since it covers both fairly well.
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Not a true spoiler. I will try to keep this tame for now. I just can't post all my opinions without ruining some of the story
It took me awhile but I got around to this book. I have stayed away from the Dan brown books becuase of all the hype around them but decided since I watched the D. Code movie and had wished I read the book, that I was going to read this one since I heard many thought it was better.
It was pretty good. It kept you guessing and had a good amount of clues you could use to solve what was going on and some twists that where just really good and you didn't see them coming.
I tend to stay away from fiction. We I read more non fiction then fiction, since I often feel cheated becuase I hate most endings to novels. I always feel that they are a little to overdone and dramatic with unlikely evetns. Demons and Angels didn't fail me. I loved the book all the way up until the stupid ass ending. I know it is fiction but try to keep it real. I didn't like Landon's "Swim" in the river. Thought that was stupid. The story kept changing directions at the end which I thought kept it togather but over all some of the parts where a little much. I also don't like "life changing" stories to major institues like the vatican. I don't know why but..........I don't. Same with movies like independence day. I can enjoy some stories but it takes the right one. I thought the "Love story" was useless and was hoping he would leave out a kiss. Right!!!! The Science vs Religion thing was good but was a little much in the last chapters. It felt like it went on and on. But didn't subtract much.
That said, Angels and Demons was high pace and had a ton of smarts to it. I can see why dan brown is so famous. He is an excellent story teller. The whole chase was some of the best reading I have had. Very engaging and plain old fun to read.
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