Angels and Demons

[Rob67]

I would like to share my thoughts on a book I just read. “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown.

I expected a book that keeps me reading instead I found a book that didn’t let me do anything else. It’s an astonishing read. The story is absolute gripping , and the way it is written – wow.
That is what I call escapism to let one forget everything around and just get tied to the book.
After “Deception Point” and “The Da Vinci Code” , “Angels and Demons” is the third book I’ve read by Dan Brown and all of them are real masterpieces.

One can gain a lot by reading “Angels and Demons” and that’s why I absolutely recommend it. Have fun reading it, if you haven’t done so already. And don’t take the short cut watching the movie before you have read the book, it’s not worth it – to much is missing.

[Haunted]

A friend told me about “Deception Point”, he really liked it. I enjoyed both A&D and DVC and if you haven't read The Lost Symbol, I highly recommend it. It's more academic and intellectual than the first two, and creepier.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, but I can't say the same for Angels and Demons. The plot just seemed way to contrived and unbelievable, and the jump out of the helicopter was eye-lollingly ludicrous. Even after reading just one of his book, The Da Vinci Code, his forumla was obvious--the nice and trustworthy guy is actually the bad guy (gasp).

[hawthorns]

Never read the book, but the movie went from preposterous to totally ridiculous. An awesome tour of Rome though...

[country doctor]

da vinci code > > > > angels and demons...

ROAR!

[Catamite]

Deception Point is the worst novel I've ever read - althought to be fair, I haven't read past the page of Twilight. Dan Brown is a particularily bad writer, it's so bad it's almost ostentatious. I mean seriously, masterpieces? The plots seem to be created by a mental deficient.

[WICKES]

I think this is the wrong place to put in a plug for Dan Brown. His books are not literature but trash. He is a dreadful, dreadful writer. The only time his 'masterpieces' would appear in a University literature seminar would be as a means of highlighting good wrting through contrast.

Read a page of Evelyn Waugh at random, then read a page of Dan Brown. Keep alternating and you'll realize the difference between beautiful, graceful prose and ugly, clumsy prose.

[Emil Miller]

One of the most depressing things about LitNet is that just as you are hoping that Dan Brown,Harry Potter,Twilight etc.have vanished from the forum for good, someone comes along and re-opens Pandora's box of rubbish.
People read what they want to and that's fine but there are limits to what a literature forum can take on board.

[PeterL]

If you like that kind of stuff, then you should rad Fouault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I was going to suggest that also, PeterL, but since he's not a first language English speaker, it may be pretty difficult. I think I have a good vocabulary, and I was constantly going for the dictionary. Of course, this could be a good thing for Rob, too.

[PeterL]

I was going to suggest that also, PeterL, but since he's not a first language English speaker, it may be pretty difficult. I think I have a good vocabulary, and I was constantly going for the dictionary. Of course, this could be a good thing for Rob, too.

While English may be his second or third language, Eco writes very well in English (i can't remember which books he wrote in English, but I couldn't distinguish them from things written by native speakers.); but he didn't write [i]Fouault's Pendulum in English, nor did he do the translation; although he did edit and approve the translation. If you had trouble with the verbiage, then you should attack the translator. Personally, I had no trouble with the verbiage; although some was not simple, and I think that the language and sentence structures were deliberate as techniques to show characters and ativity through the language.