Search - Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon, Bk 1)

Ready for an adventure? This book will take you on one! It certainly did me. Angels & Demons was the first Dan Brown novel that I read and I was captivated from the first sentence to the last word. This is a riveting thriller that is action-packed with suspense, murder, and mayhem that threatens to erupt on the eve of the new pope's coronation. Plus, it is filled with factual information regarding historical landmarks and the Catholic Church, while intertwining science and religion. I highly recommend putting this book on your "must-read" list!

Really well-written. The historical facts are very accurate but it does not have to shake anyone's religious convictions.... it is just an excellent read.
Nancy

an excellent thriller more than enough twist and surpries to keep you guessing.

This is an EXCELLENT book! I liked it even more than the DaVinci Code, and the 2 books are my favorites!

This is a thrill a minute book but what I liked about it was the solid historical background, which emphasizes the repression of scientific discovery by the Church.

As with The Da Vinci Code, too short and not enough original research.

Great storytelling by Dan Brown. A must read if you were spellbound by the DaVinci Code. One of my all time favorites. Can't wait for more Dan Brown works in the future.

Better than the Da Vinci Code, I thought, and the inside look at the workings of the Vatican was fascinating.

This book is great if you love a good suspense book, this book is hard to put down at least it was for me. Better then the movie. Murder, good story telling, Dan brown is great at twisting the facts and making them work for his book, there is just enough truth in this book to be dangerous, (Ok I didn't say that but it is the truth.)

This is probably the best book that I have read to date. If you read and like The Da Vinci Code, you will definately enjoy this book. I actually liked Angels and Demons better than Da Vinci Code.

Although many parts are unbelieveable, Brown produces another great adventure full of twists and turns. Even better than the Da Vinci Code

Nothing like a good book to keep you company all night. What a suspenseful thriller!!

This was a great read. I like the way that Dan Brown writes. Anyone with the appetite for a good mystery and action packed novel will love this one.

I liked this one from beginning to end

Read this book after I read the Davinci Code a few years ago, it was a very good book. I hear now that it is going to be a movie. I will definalty go see it

Awesome! I want to go to Rome!! And... I want Dan Brown to write more novels!

I liked this book much better than the DaVinci Code.

I loved this book from start to finish. Great job by Dan Brown.

OK, the story, if not even a little bit believable, was reasonably entertaining. I don't demand believability!

However, the way this book is written is just unbelievably condescending. Brown feels the need to explain what the BBC is, what a particle accelerator is, insists on translating VERY basic foreign phrases, and gets basic word definitions in repeatedly under the guise of not having his characters know what things are. This wouldn't be so bad if the characters weren't supposed to be a physicist/biologist and a professor/symbologist. (A college professor has never HEARD of CERN?) The 'obscure' tidbits of knowledge that supposedly prove Langdon is brilliant in his field are most often common, pop-culture kinda stuff. He also divides "Christian vs. Pagan" symbology up in a way that people of centuries past did not. (It really would not have been considered shocking for a religious sculptor to also carve pyramids and obelisks, for example. And as of when is a dove a solely 'pagan' symbol?)

Luckily, most of the really irritating bits are in the beginning of the book - once people start dying, things get moving and the definitions fall by the wayside.
Still, I was hoping for a bit more... I didn't find the descriptions of life either at CERN or in the Vatican to be realistic AT ALL. (Oh, and as a library person, the bits dealing with when Langdon is allowed into the archives alone, without the help/supervision of a professional - sorry, but no way. They couldn't go wake up an archivist/librarian? And I don't believe that there is ANY evidence that the Vatican denies access to the materials in its catalog to non-Catholic researchers on the basis of their religion. From what I've read, it operates much like any other restricted archive - you have to have credentials as a qualified researcher, you need to request an appointment and the specific articles you want to see in advance, etc. Standard practice. And I really don't know about suffocating to death in an archival vault in 20 minutes. Unlikely. At least it's not something they ever warned us about in library school.)

I've been to Rome, and the book didn't succeed in bringing me back to the aura or feel of that beautiful and ancient yet modern city.
The religion vs. science debates brought up in the book are certainly timely, but fairly basic - they never really delve that deeply into the issues. Still, there are some really amusing bits, and some unexpected twists and turns in the plot.

Still, I should probably mention that it follows a very similar formula as the Da Vinci Code - if you've read one recently, the other may seem sneakingly familiar....

My favorite Dan Brown book. Yes, even better than DaVinci Code, in my opinion. Very suspenseful read.