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This is no ordinary murder, but is murder ever ordinary, probably not, but this one is highly unusual. Well a secret society, don'tcha know, the illuminati who have a long standing grudge against the Church.
It held me enthralled from cover to cover, just an out of sight thriller, that's what this book is. Add to the mix the fact that the Pope has been murdered and that those favored to replace him are missing and you have the makings of a thriller extraordinaire as Langdon and Vittoria race time to find the anti-matter bomb in the bowels of the Vatican before it goes off and turns the Holy See into rubble.I know I might have been a little flip above, because some of this story seemed a little far fetched, but be that as it may, I couldn't put the book down.
Maximilian Kohler, the general director of the Swiss nuclear research facility CERN, wakes Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon in the middle of the night with a phone call. And who's got it.
What more can I say. Kohler needs Langdon's help because one of CERN's star scientists has been horribly murdered, the body branded with strange symbols.
Langdon is on the case and so is his new sidekick, the daughter of the murdered scientist, the beautiful Vittoria Vetra, who is also a brilliant physicist.In addition to the murder, a sample of the anti-matter the lab has been working on has been stolen, and it seems just a pinch of this stuff can set off a Hiroshima type explosion.
I do plan to get more of Dan Brown's books. Still, I enjoy them both and was glad I saw the movie first. This was a very good book. I would say that 90% of the book was nothing like the movie.
It will keep you turning the pages until its over, and when it is, you'll just want more. This book is a wonderful precident to The Davinci Code.
i have read the sample and it is still good. the reason i rated this book five stars is because i am watcing the movie right now litteratly.it is great so far.
Either way, he comes across as a real buffoon since he can't separate reality from fiction. Thank the Good Lord, I didn't pay too much for it. I first tried to read Angels & Demons when it first came out (before DaVinci Code). It was so incredibly bad. Into the recycle bin it went. How can anyone sit through a book that does nothing but go on, and on, and on, and on, and on---get my drift.The really bad historical research just turns off someone, like me, who has actually studied, and degreed in, history. I've truly studied history and have always tried to maintain a balanced idea of what occurred.Dan Brown, on the other hand, has clearly never studied history, or he's taken classes by those who want to change history to meet their agenda.
Still drivel. Still bad.
Good grief. Nope, no can do.
I couldn't get past the first chapter. Anyway, after the DaVinci code was released (which I couldn't finish), I tried to re-read Angels & Demons.
Half-Priced Books Store to the rescue there. Nor could I get past the first chapter of DaVinci Code.
I don't mean revisionist, hate all Christianity, love all perversions, revile decency, type of history.
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