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Summary: A Thriller, but not good theology
Review: There is no doubt that Angels and Demons is a fast-paced thriller. It's worth the read. I'll let others comment on the science versus science fiction behind antimatter in book. However, one had better not take the "history" or "theology" as accurate (In deed one need not be "accurate" even in an "historical NOVEL".) Many of the details of vestiture, language, and theology (e.g. Church's attitude toward "Creationism" along with the "Christian Right") echo the comment made by one reviewer that the Italian translations were not very accurate. But, again as a thriller, it's great!
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Summary: Exciting
Review: This is a really good book. Fast and interesting. Too bad that 95% of the quotations in Italian are wrong. I realize it's not important to most readers, but it does make you wonder how careful the research was.
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Summary: lives up to expectations
Review: one of the best books i've read in a long time. grabs you pulls you in and won't let go. one of the best mysteries to come along in a long time. just as soon as you think you know what's going to happen you are wrong. once you start this book you won't be able to put it down. with likeable characters and evil villans this is what a great novel should be
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Summary: Ivy league rationalist bummer
Review: Why is it Dan Brown's "religious" novels--technically inventive and well researched in the extreme--leave a mild distaste for some? Could it be that his not so hidden message is, "I believe in disbelief," as befits a preppie well ensconced in the Eastern liberal establishment? Remember that the best predictor of how you voted in the last Presidential election was how often you go to church, with propensity to vote Democratic inversely related to frequency of church attendance. The author's purpose seems to be to make people who go to Christian churches feel stupid, while paying the usual liberal obeisance to New Age and Eastern spirituality. This is unfortunate, as such false dichotmotization feeds the current perverse polarization of American politics that is excluding the middle most Americans would probably prefer to inhabit.
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Summary: Expected more
Review: The book was 200 pages longer than the story required. The beginning is extremely slow and I almost gave up on the book. There were some nice unexpected plot twists but they were too little too late.
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Summary: Too Intense to Put Down
Review: After reading the DaVinci Code, it was a quick decision to look for Angels and Demons. Dan Brown's research and imagination make for truly suspenseful can't-put-them down books. The Illuminati, a secret society dating back to the time of Galileo is believed to have died out until Leonardo Vetra is found murdered and branded with the sign of the Illuminati on his chest. The Director of the Cern Institute that employed Vetra and his daughter Vittoria, summons Robert Langdon to try to explain how Vetra could have been murdered and how his discovery of anti-matter could have been stollen. The story moves to Rome where the pope has died and a conclave to elect a new pope is about to begin. It appears that terrorists have planted the anti-matter beneath the Vatican and will destroy the city when the timer on the apparatus runs out. There seems to be no solution as Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra together race through Rome looking for clues to the whereabouts of the canister. The ending is a surprise and the suspense is tight to the last page.
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Summary: A good fight-against-time book
Review: As a thriller, is thrilling enough:fast paced, enthralling and whit a good plot twist and surprise in the end. Only, I wish our Author hasn't made his protagonist so naive. Maybe an anthropologist wouldn't know of the most cryptic aspect of particle physics, but his astonishment on hearing of antimatter seems absurd in a learned man. And has he never heard of CERN and particle accelerators? As if this stereotype of the humanist scholar totally oblivious of science matters was not annoying enough, there's an extravagant overemphatization of the rift between Science and Religion.Here seems to be an unbridgeable chasm, a situation that is rather different fron reality ( see the latest pronouncement of the Pope in the matter).
This said, it's a good thriller, whit carboard characters (how many post-feminism women-of-action way smartest that the male protagonist have you seen?) who don't do much in terms of human interaction,but,hey, they've got to save the world!
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Summary: Outstanding Book!
Review: This is one of the best books I've read this year. The research that went into the writing of this book must have been incredible. The plot kept you moving through the book and the historical information backing it all up was so interesting that I came away from reading it feeling smarter. I love when reading a book makes me feel like I've learned something that I knew nothing about before. Kudos to Dan Brown! I can't wait to read The Da'Vinci Code!
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Summary: A Book You Just Can't Put Down!
Review: I am a first-time Dan Brown reader, and I am a total fan! After self-inflicting a period of reading nothing(due to too much required school reading,) I have finally found an author I love! This book was riveting from beginning to end. I have always loved a good mystery/thriller, and Dan Brown delivers this! His protagonists are intelligent and three dimensional, and his plot is absolutely captivating. I picked up the book to read one chapter, and ended up reading half the book! Mr. Brown picked the Illuminati, a legendary group of men, as the central theme of the book. Along the way, you even learn some fascinating facts about the Vatican, art, and literature of the period. The story was very engaging and I have to admit I can't wait to read the Da Vinci Code!
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Summary: Nothing special
Review: I don't quite understand the big noise about this book, but I guess it's because of The Da Vinci Code, which I found very gimmicky. I just want to ask if authors masquerading as customers (like Victoria Taylor Murray) are going to write reviews that they please learn how to spell and construct sentences. I feel sorry for their poor editors.
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