Angels & Demons

A Novel

Paperback, 480 pages

English language

Published May 11, 2006 by Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-9346-8
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OCLC Number:
982966080

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3 stars (340 reviews)

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. (back cover)

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Review of 'Angels & Demons' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A fun reading, quite entertaining. The ending is full of twists and turns, but it seems to me to be in a hurry given the information to be revealed.

I've never called Vatican City and Rome so much, but I confess that I felt like visiting the places mentioned in the book.

I prefer the Langdon presented in the Da Vinci Code. In this book he seems to me more naive and whose deeds do not interfere so much in the narrative.

اولین رمانی که خوندم!

5 stars

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.

Review of 'Angels & Demons' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

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.

Review of 'Angels & Demons' on Goodreads

3 stars

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.

Review of 'Angeles y demonios' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

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 …

Review of 'Angels & Demons' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

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.

Review of 'Angels & Demons' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

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.

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