Has anyone read Angels & Demons by Dan Brown...same guy that wrote The Da Vinci Code. I just picked it up today...was wondering if anyone else has read it...or heard anything about it...?

Yeah I read it, great book, better then Da Vinci code IMO. It has alot more story too.

Yeah alot of people i've talked to say they like this better than The Da Vinci Code.

Angels and Demons is an okay book. Dan Brown isn't that good of a writer.

it was better then Da Vinci Code, but ehhhh....if you read Da Vinci it's going to be alot like that, character wise

I liked The Da Vinci Code.

its only betta dan da DaVinci Code becuz it doesnt hav as much made up information

Nah, it is not better than the Da Vinci Code. Because atleast the Da Vinci Code contained SOME truthful information. Almost everything said in Chapter 32 was a HISTORICAL fact, you can check it out on any Encylopedia or whatever. But the stuff about Jesus having a wife is very disputed and highly unlikely.

Second, if you have read any one of Dan Browns novels, you have read them all. This guy has the SAME plot, same character development and same linear path throughout all of his novels. He is not innovative or creative.

^^^^ my thoughts exactly....same shit different book

i've read all his books except digital fortress, he writes informative and suspenseful, dats the only thing i noticed

Obviously you are not an avid or skilled reader.

Here let me explain.

I've read three books from him with the exception of Digital Fortress.


Each novel has a strong intelligent protaginist who is very knowledgeable about a certain obscure field. In Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code, this protaginist is Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, and in the Deception Point is NSA Gister Rachel Sexton. All three characters have the same qualities, they are naive, intelligenct and unaware to the impending danger that is ahead.

Then there is a rather dull opposite sex partner that Brown uses. In all three novels these characters have the same qualities, they are the missing component to the main character, and they provide valuable information about their field. At the end of almost each novel, these secondary protaginists/sidekicks end up making love with the main protaginist.


Then you have palpable antagonist in each novel. The villian that is visible to the reader halfway through the novel. Inm Angels and Demons, it's the Hassasin, in the Da Vinci Code, it is Silas the monk, and in the Deception Point it is the Delta Force Agents. These trained killers work for a higher and unknown force that remains mysterious to the reader until the end of the novel.

Then you have the person you THINK is the REAL villian, and Brown builds him up as the Villian but the character ends up to be impeccant and innocent of all crimes. In the Deception Point this character is Majorie Tench, in Angels and Demons it is the director of the Science research facility and I forgot the name of the character in the Da Vinci Code that plays this role, but there is definately one of them.

And lastly you have the REAL villian. The real villian is always a surprise, someone you do not expect, someone who is always exuding himself to be a friend throughout the novel. In the Deception Point this character is William Pickering, in the Da Vinci Code the character is Sir Leigh Teabing, and in Angels and Demons the character is the Carlomengo. These characters are NEVER thought to be the main antagonist because they provide the reader with many virtuous qualities, and leads the reader astray in his/her suspicion of the villian, but the end Brown illustrates why these characters are the evils and what interests and gains they can recieve for being the bad guys.

And another thing is, that Brown always interjects alot of information throughout his novels. In the Da Vinci Code, this information proved to be contentious and disputed, but his other novels provide external information about abstract theories, or science.


So at the end of the day, if you cannot relay the similarities between Brown's novels, you shouldn't read anymore--it is not beneficial to you.

please tell me ur white n english

i know dey similar, men wat da fuck, i aint stupid, if i was stupid i wouldnt get pass tha 1st chapter

^^^^^^^^lmao

I will admit i enjoyed The Da Vinci and Angels & Demons for what they were....a entertaining work of fiction...

At first i admit i did enjoy the DVC quite a lot but after rteadig A&D i knew they were the same story pretty much...Nothing Special at all, upon reading them a second time i got bored, coulndnt keep me interested

I tried reading Deception Point but stopped cos it was very boring and very un-immagineative,

I do read a lot of books but think Dan Brown is a one-trick author if you like, a very simple writer

Angels and Demons could make a decent film tho i think

Average books.......not as good as i first thought or as good as people think

Actually you tried to sound intelligent by saying "wel i no dey infoarmative n suspenzful but dat be it". I basically helped you understand why these novels were practically the same thing by assessing the Character development which is consistent in all three novels.

Why is it that one has to be white if he contains any speck of literary knowledge?? I'm an American, and I am not white.

Ghetto children such as you are amusing little creatures.

its not dat u got a speck of literary knowledge, its dat ur writing is like fuckin fluent its fuckin annoyin

Then why do you read?? If you expect to sustain incoherent English grammar, why do you read??

I'm a college educated man, I write fluently because I am predisposed to write like this. I'm sorry, I can't write all thuggish or incompetent like you, it is not prevalent in my genetics to write so incongruous without respect to the English language.

i aint incompetent mafucka, im a major at science at all fields includin chemistry, biology, physics, shit men u name it im probably pretty fuckin good at it

as fo y i write thuggish its cuz its easier to read n understand, language evolves men, dont forget dat

I seriously doubt you are a major at science.

Writing thuggish is easier to understand and read?? Yeah right, for who?? High School dropouts??

Language evolves--but ebonics will NEVER be a viable dialect outside the range of Thugs and Ghetto inhabitants. Try that Ebonics crap when you are in a room full of scientists or a business meeting.

out of all his books, Digital Fortress might be the worst one. I don't know ANYONE whose read it.

i AM a major in science now im studying chemistry next year so i can make a new drug dats da only reason y i like science but dats another story

anyway u wouldnt know from online or tha things ive accomplished so...WHATEVER

^^^^^^^^^^LMAO
BTW, how old are you CK? Where you at ?

im not a blood if dats wat u think n CK dont stand for crip killer
im like or almost 15 n im at my house, wat u need to know dat for ?

Wait wait wait.

You're 15 years old and you're "majoring" in all fields of science?? Dawg, you aren't a college major, we ALL had to take biology, chemistry, geology, and physics in High School.

LMAO@this guy. Make a new drug for yourself?? You're already overdosed on the drugs.

But yeah, you're basically bullshitting now.

aint no point in arguin wit someone who loves to show off their intellect at every chance givin, theyll always win...

i didnt say i was in college, im still a major like one or two more grades ahead dan tha rest
new drug as in new medicine dumbass, people hav goals too no matter how much of a shit head they are
ive never had overdose either, like i said n T.I. 'U Don't Know Me'...now 'what u know about dat'

Truer words have never been spoken.

CKillin or whatever thuggalicious name you have implanted yourself with--please memorize the above sentence.

no

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wow you guyz r crazy.

I remeber reading Angels and Demons last year when i had to go to a wedding for my cousin. The person that recomended me the book was reading it on an airplane and she told me that it was the plot was suspensful and the story hypnotizing (not in those exact words) so i knew i would have some down time while i was in New Mexico so i picked it up.

i read alot but Fiction isnt usually my cup of tea. Notwithstanding when i saw his book in a gift shop at the airport i decided to pick it up. I was curious to see what all the fuse was about. What was it about this author that stired so much controversy. I thought if Angels and Demons would be a good read than i might check out Da Vinici Code. Besides the people i talked to said Angels and Demons was way better.

I thought it was good i liked how he interspersed random bits of debatable information in the text dealing with everything from Kepler's theories, the big bang theory, free masonry, anti matter particle accelerators, to the vatican and corpenicus and his heliocentric theory.

I thought some of the chapters dragged a little was plenty of action interwoven between the latter chapters that sustained its intensity ie The protaginist falling out of a plane, one of the vicitims suspended by hooks, etc. I also liked reading about the numerous religious refrences as well because i like to study religion. I thought the way the killer murdered his victims and left clues was interesting. I also thought the twist in the end with the priest was pretty cool.

I enjoyed i would probably read it again. In fact i bought a magazine from Us News and World Report some time last year as well and ive been meaning to read the two together. The magazine has about 8 sections and in each section a reporter interviews or has a expert discuss what is written in ANgels and Demons and its veracity. They have phsycist, scientist, catholic writers, historians etc. Angels and Demons might not be the best fiction you guys have ever read but its by far not the worst i would hope.