This is another awesome book by Dan Brown. It's another Robert Langdon adventure that takes place before the Da Vinci Code. In this story, Langdon is trying to save Vatican City from the ancient Brotherhood of the Illuminati, who have placed a bomb made from antimatter, an energy source that it carries a payload of 100 times that of a nuclear missile.
I just got the book recently also. I heard it from a friend and thought of reading it. I am wondering when an alternative source of energy would suffice to completely eliminate our current dependence on fossil fuel.
Yes, me too. It's as if they, as in 'the powers that be' are waiting until we suck the world dry of all it's oil and trees before converting to a much more Earth friendly means. Keep the rich rich and the poor poor, that seems to be the current trend.
The possibility of utilizing antimatter was that it was produced at 100 efficiency (no pollution), unlike nuclear fission (was it 1.5%? Can't remember). However, the consequences was also at acknowledging this not only as a power source, but a possibility of a potent weapon that could easily be distributed and had terribly destructive capabilities for such a small quantity.
I read it when I was on holiday.
It was ok. . . I read a lot of VERY gory books and although it wasn't disturbing, I thought the murders were very creative!
The ambigrams were really creative and down-right awesome. And this book really had the "time is of the essence" feel to it. Predictable but after reading all of Brown's novels, I pretty much see the "good-bad guy" formula he uses. Pretty obvious who switches sides and what not. But overall, one of my favorite books.
And BK, i remember A&D already being nominated like a couple of months ago. Is it alright to be nominated again?
The main reason I have no interest in the davinci code is that I read Angels and Demons when it first came out. I have no problem with people taking ideas like the Illuminati and the bagget / leigh holy grail theory (which Im told is what the D-code is all about) and fictionalising them. As long as they tip the hat to the original work, Great stuff.
What I object to is hack-work. Brown isnt a bad writer as such - but he's one of a growing band of people that write novels as treatments for film. Angels and Demons read like a movie pitch - he wanted a movie deal so badly that he even mentioned actors for the parts, did the requisite location work and laid the book out like a 3 act set piece action movie.
If you want to write a film treatment - fine, more power to ya; but don’t pretend it’s a novel and charge me seven bucks for the privilege of proof reading it. ****im, I'm never touching one of his insulting toiletpaper pot-boilers again.
Nevertheless, it's entertaining. I finished reading Angels and Demons two weeks ago and I'm half way through DV Code. I was reading too many old pieces of literature, ie Napoleonic War Novels and Lord of the Rings, Dan Brown is a nice change for now, the story moves and isn't bogged down with too many details like the other books I was reading. I see what you mean though.
I must say, both Angels and Demons are somewhat annoyingly similar, [SPOILER - highlight to read]: They both have a hot chick who's father figure dies, they both have a psycho guy who kills religious folks, they both deal with a mysterious phone calls to get the story going, codes and anagrams and the friggin Mickey Mouse watch.
have any of you read his other two books - Digital Fortress and Deception Point. I have them both, but have not started - i am most of the way through angels and demons having first read the Da Vinci Code.
I actually made the same points as you guys have in the Da Vinci forum - which Lord Soth started and which first compelled me to join this site -- there are too many similarities between the two books although both are fine as standalone plots, and both very enjoyable. However, i am hoping the other two books are not quite as similar!
Very apt at the moment, A&D, considering recent events in the Vatican - it was really great knowing what goes on at conclave before being told all about it by newreaders!
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Angels And Demons
Mar 29th, 2004 05:14 AM
