hehe,,i'm glad to help.. btw if you ever need some other books try World Without End and Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.. year 1134+, and its full of blood [including the vivid descriptions] like someone being 'hanged at the gallows, with it's neck increasing in length', 'a thief, punished by removing his outer skin to be displayed on the cathedral door'..plus some richly detailed love/rape scenes.. those are big books but you'll love reading it to the very end..

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Like other readers of the Da Vinci Code, I wanted to read other books written by Dan Brown. What surprised me was that the Angels and Demons book wasn't the book that took him to the top of the NYT best seller's list.

I read the Da Vinci Code and probably rate it as a 4 in reading and excitement. I rate A&D a 5. This book clipped along in such a breathless speed of action, suspense, and drama that I was up into the wee hours of the morning, my eyelids drooping, too into the plot to put the book down.

The only part of the book that I was somewhat dissapointed in was when two characters jumped out of a helicopter that was supposedly 1 - 3 miles up in the air, neither seemed to have parachutes, but both survived and landed in very convenient spots for the plot. That tiny part of the plot was not at all believable, but I forgive Mr. Brown because the rest of the book was so absolutely delicious.

What delighted me even more -- just as I thought the climax had been reached (and for the most part, it was the major climax), there were a few more minor climaxes. (I was wondering why there were another hundred pages or so after the best part of the book!).

I think that last scene (Chapter 137) in the book was insisted upon by market driven publishers who felt that all good books had to have a gratuitious sex scene to make the book complete.
Come on -- 'publishing industry' -- wake up! An awesome, potentially best-seller book can be considered 'complete' and 'marketable' without a sex scene. This scene wasn't even necessary to make me want to lean back and smoke a cigarette afterwards from the book's overall excitement.

There are the first few chapters of Dan Brown's next book, "Deception Point" in the back of the paperback A&D book I had. I can't wait to buy that next book to see what exciting plots and twists have been devilishly written by Mr. Brown.

 

 

 

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Maybe it was cuz Angels And Demons was such a good book that they decided to promote Da Vinci Code? I don't know probably something like that.

Angels And Demons is my favorite book. I actually read Angels And Demons first and then The Da Vinci Code...Angels And Demons, in my opinion, is better. I was gonna start on Deception Point but after those two books, I kinda got sick of his style of writing. It was just too much the same.

I might read the book later in life though...

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I am working on my Norwegian exam, and one of the things we have to talk about is an author and one of his books. I have chosen Dan Brown, and "Angels and Demons." And here is the problem; It has been a long time since I red it, and when I read summaries online they never reveal the end. So it would be really nice if someone had a link or could give me a short summary of the book and what happens. I remember a lot of it, but the end is unclear... I have only got about 2-3 minutes to give a summary.

It would be great if someone could help me.

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well i personally think that da vinci code was kinda better than angels and demons...I couldn't close the book at all. The suspense and riddles and the puzzles were so intriguing and the whole storyline was breathtaking.....Definitely one of the best books i've read so far.

A&D on the other hand was also an amazing book but i preferred da vinci code to it....

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I agree that this is a great book. I wouldn't say that it is BETTER than the DaVinci Code, but almost equal. They both are genius and really interesting, but have very different story lines. the thing about angels and demons is that it can actually strengthen your faith if you are religious, and it doesn't try to say that science or religion is right, but argues that they can exist together and actually help each other. The speech that that priest gives in the book is beautiful and I read it over again. Although Dan Brown's books are what I would call easy reads, they are creative and VERY interesting to read. I challenge you to read a couple of chapters and then willingly put the boo down for angels and demons or the davinci code. I heart Dan Brown and his books.

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Angels and Demons need not be all that i=unrealistic you know....of ourse, the part about the Vatican' involvement blah blah...may be weird...but anti-matter creation or to be more precise, "God's Particle" is indeed a sort of Holy Grail for physicists world-wide. In fact, a facility has been built at Cerne, Switzerland , called a Large Hydrogen Collider (LHC), which will supposedly create this particle.

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