When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati… the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.
The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy… the Catholic Church.
Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces he has hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt …
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati… the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.
The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy… the Catholic Church.
Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces he has hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair… a secret location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.
An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war…
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این اولین رمانی بود که مطالعه کردم. درواقع بعد از خوندن این کتاب بود که به مطالعه کتاب های غیر تخصصی توجه کردم. لذت غرق شدن در دنیای داستانی که کتاب نقل می کنه، واقعا تجربهی ای بود که تا اون موقع نداشتم.
The book is okay-ish. The facts are so absurd that I've elected to ignore it - if you read this book and think "Oh, the author is so knowledgeable and attentive to details and match things up perfectly", then you should think again. Check the facts so that you're not misinformed.
One bonus star for the surprising twist, but I'm not sure I'd ever read books like this for a second time.
The book is okay-ish. The facts are so absurd that I've elected to ignore it - if you read this book and think "Oh, the author is so knowledgeable and attentive to details and match things up perfectly", then you should think again. Check the facts so that you're not misinformed.
One bonus star for the surprising twist, but I'm not sure I'd ever read books like this for a second time.
Ha sido una de las lecturas más horribles que puedo recordar. Ya me habían avisado que no era nada del otro mundo, y efectivamente así es. Para mi ha sido una lectura de baño (y además literalmente porque creo que es el único sitio donde merece ser leído).
Empecé el libro con curiosidad, pero ha acabado siendo un peñazo. Y si por algo ha sido es por la cantidad datos (¿innecesarios?) con que nos deleita el autor. Es decir, nos hace ver lo "culto" que es y lo mucho que sabe de ese, y eso a mí me da rabia porque a no ser que aporte algo importante a la trama o sea relevante, no es más que relleno para hacer el libro más gordo y, por lo menos a mí, la historia se me hace más pesada y carente de interés. De hecho logre aguantar (consciente) hasta el capitulo …
Ha sido una de las lecturas más horribles que puedo recordar. Ya me habían avisado que no era nada del otro mundo, y efectivamente así es. Para mi ha sido una lectura de baño (y además literalmente porque creo que es el único sitio donde merece ser leído).
Empecé el libro con curiosidad, pero ha acabado siendo un peñazo. Y si por algo ha sido es por la cantidad datos (¿innecesarios?) con que nos deleita el autor. Es decir, nos hace ver lo "culto" que es y lo mucho que sabe de ese, y eso a mí me da rabia porque a no ser que aporte algo importante a la trama o sea relevante, no es más que relleno para hacer el libro más gordo y, por lo menos a mí, la historia se me hace más pesada y carente de interés. De hecho logre aguantar (consciente) hasta el capitulo 7, y a partir de ahí puse el piloto automático.
Mencion aparte, decir que el protagonista Robert Langdon, me pareció una suerte de Indiana Jones (por lo de ser profesor universitario) pero sin la gracia de aquel y en plan "repelente, niño Vicente", o sea, sabelotodo (y un tanto pijo).
Por lo que a mí respecta no pienso acercarme a ningún otro libro de Dan Brown.
Review of 'Angels & Demons + 16 Page Inferno Teaser (Robert Langdon)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A fun entertaining read with some interesting moral and philosophical considerations. Fast paced, but with some convenient contrivances to get the reader where he wants you to be. Also an interesting travelogue of sorts.
I think this is the best of Brown's Langdon novels, despite its issues. The novel is better than the film, as I felt they cut too much out to keep the peace. It's a fun adventure - a great commuting read.
I read this during my school days probably at my 9th grade. And I still remember the sort of impact it had on me. This was one of those books that turned me to science. I was simply captivated by anti-matter and stuffs ever since.
The consensus was that he'd gone over the top and set the bar of suspension of disbelief a bit too high. We spent a pleasant hour (with Bill facilitating, to break him in for next year) poking fun at the inaccuracies, implausibilities and downright unbelievabilities in the plot. (Bill did some research and found that not only do the four Bernini angels not point at each other, but that the four churches are not arranged in a cruciform.) We also noted the seeming need through the ages, both to belong to some secret society of some sort, and to uncover secrets and to hypothesize hidden conspiracies. Those who read the book on tape didn't get to see the pretty ambigrams (and couldn't see the ones in the printed books anyway). Pam promised to make enlargements of them.
This and Dan Brown's other notable novel, The Da Vinci Code, follow such a similar narrative arc that they may as well be the same book with the names and locations changed.
Again, the Catholic Church can do no good, and it's up to Brown's hero to show the world exactly how Evil Genius the perpetrator really is. Oh, and there's a cute girl, who contributes far less than her education might imply.
And he never gets around the whole "so how exactly can a scientist create antimatter in an environment where contact with said environment would cause it to destroy that very same environment"? Plot holes abound, if you take a quick look at it.
Simply put, this is the secular equivalent to the Left Behind novels.
