angels//demons

Sep
15

I read this book called Angels & Demons by much-famed author Dan Brown. I was persuaded to read this book by a couple of friends so one day, I decided to borrow it to read.

It’s quite a good book. It was captivating and there wasn’t any moment that I got bored and decided it is best to do word search puzzles.

Angels & Demons is not a fantasy book that I once thought it would be. I heard of the book of course and came thought it’s about a book on how the angels fight the demons in a world of fantasy. Apparently I had taken the book title too literal.

Angels & Demons is a book written prior to Da Vinci Code which is pretty much known to everyone now ever since it’s controversial mention of Mary Magdalene being the spouse of Jesus Christ. See! I haven’t even read Da Vinci Code and I already heard about it.

The book - Angels & Demons - is about Robert Langdon, a Harvard lecturer in symbology. I doubt that there is just a course at Harvard actually. The story begins with scientist Leonardo Vetra being murdered and than marked with an Illuminati sign. Illuminati is some secret society that is believed to be present no more. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria Vetra, discovers that antimatter which is more destructive than nuclear weapon is missing from the laboratory. Together, they journey through the Vatican City, in search of the missing antimatter only to find themselves involved in much more than that.

Dan Brown wrote an exciting book. It’s got both religion and science. And you think they just don’t mix together. It is interesting read. Langdon’s nerdy sense of humor - however - isn’t. The book seems to be attempting to convince the reader of so many surprising “truths” that I just can’t take it at one point. There seems to be a bunch of brags about this and that. Ignoring those flaws, the book is more enjoyable. I love the twist in this book.

This book is one of the better books I come across - not that I read a lot - 4.5 upon 5.

Tags: books, christianity, dan brown, errors, science

11 comments for “angels//demons”

nice book but bit slow in the middle when search for the key to four churches start, a good time pass one should try it read if u have not read da vinci code coz it is a bit of low as compared to vinci code.
by sameer srivastava (Sep 17, 2005 at 12 AM)
sameer srivastava: I haven’t read Da Vinci Code before I read Angels and Demons. I am reading Da Vinci Code now, haven’t completed it though. The pace is indeed faster.

I have to admit that in Angels and Demons, I don’t really understand what Dan Brown is describing sometimes. I just get confusing and can’t visualize what he describes! I went to Borders to take a peep at a special illustrated edition and then I finally understand, hahaa…
by Mr. Dew (Sep 19, 2005 at 12 AM)
I liked Angels & Demons better than The Da Vinci Code. It has better plotting and a lot of the historical issues raised by Dan Brown are just as interesting, if not more, than the Code. By the way, I found the book, SECRETS OF ANGELS & DEMONS very helpful in trying to separate fact from fiction, just like the same author did in his other book, SECRETS OF THE CODE.
by vince hart (Sep 19, 2005 at 10 AM)
vince hart: Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code is doesn’t really have as much reference to history that ties down to the path to locate the whatever-treasure. Most are objects that Dan Brown assume to have existed. I looked at both illustrated editions and found the Angels and Demons one more worth it. It’s got more interesting pictures in my opinion. Da Vinci does seem to be written in a faster and more exciting pace though.
by Mr. Dew (Sep 20, 2005 at 6 AM)
Thought it was entertaining, not the best ever but definitely had points that kept my interest. Brown seems to know how to pick up interesting and obscure historical facts and mixing them into his fantasy.

Also anyone interested n the Da Vinci code should pick up a copy of Holy Blood, Holy grail and The Messainic Legacy (know I spelled that one wrong), both are non-fiction works a bit long at times, but extremely interesting for anyone who searches for hidden truths.
by JACK STATE (Sep 28, 2005 at 9 PM)
JACK STATE: I’m not sure if Holy Blood, Holy Grail is considered non-fiction. It turns out that the Priory of Sion may be nothing more than some invention of 3 guys. This weaken the non-fiction book quite a bit.
by Mr. Dew (Sep 29, 2005 at 5 AM)
You serious? Where you hear that?
I hate when people lie to me through paperback.
Book sounded so well researched too.
by JACK STATE (Oct 8, 2005 at 1 AM)
JACK STATE: Well, my sources are from various place actually. From a book called The secret of Da Vinci code or something. And from some Da Vinci code videos.

You can like about the Priory of Sion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion

PrieurÃ© de Sion, usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or even Priory of Zion, is an elusive protagonist in many works of both non-fiction and fiction. Although it has been characterized as anything from the most influential secret society in Western history to a modern Rosicrucian-esque ludibrium, it is generally accepted that the Priory of Sion is in large part an elaborate hoax.

Pierre Plantard began writing a manuscript and produced “parchments” (created by his friend, Philippe de Cherisey) that Father BÃ©renger SauniÃ¨re had supposedly discovered whilst renovating his church. These forged documents purportedly showed the survival of the Merovingian line of Frankish kings. Plantard manipulated SauniÃ¨re’s activities at Rennes-le-ChÃ¢teau in order to “prove” his claims relating to the Priory of Sion.

Between 1961 and 1984 Plantard contrived a mythical pedigree of the Priory of Sion claiming that it was the offshoot of the “Order of Sion”, which had been founded in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Research into the Rennes-le-ChÃ¢teau mysteries led Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln to the pseudohistorical Secret Files of Henri Lobineau, compiled by “Philippe Toscan du Plantier”, that became the source for their book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

In 1989, Pierre Plantard tried but failed to salvage his reputation and agenda by claiming that the Priory of Sion had actually been founded in 1681 at Rennes-le-Chateau. In September, 1993, he claimed that Roger-Patrice Pelat had once been grandmaster of the Priory of Sion. Pelat was a friend of the then-President of France FranÃ§ois Mitterrand and center of a scandal involving French Prime Minister Pierre BÃ©rÃ©govoy. A French court ordered a search of Plantard’s home, turning up many documents, including some proclaiming Plantard the true king of France. Under oath, Plantard admitted that he had fabricated everything, including Pelat’s involvement with the Priory of Sion. Plantard was ordered to cease and desist all activities related to the promotion of the Priory of Sion and lived in obscurity until his death on 3 February 2000, in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia
by Mr. Dew (Oct 8, 2005 at 9 AM)
So the writers of Holy Blood, Holy Grail were conned by the whole deal too?
by JACK STATE (Oct 10, 2005 at 10 PM)
JACK STATE: Actually, the writers believed the Priory of Sion existed till today I think. (Somebody update me if they had change their minds.) Most historians would declare Priory of Sion as a hoax but the writers refuses to believe it.

Personally, I believe it’s a hoax. The writer may not have believed it as it would mean that their non-fiction book holds fiction! I’m not sure what they think though, hahaa…
by Mr. Dew (Oct 10, 2005 at 11 PM)
[...] Now it seems like everyone’s talking about Da Vinci Code, I am asked at least 5 times on whether I read Da Vinci Code. That’s a book by Dan Brown, also author of Angels & Demons, perhaps one of the most controversial fiction titles ever written. [...]
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