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A review by leventmolla
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
4.0
I read this book again after a short trip to Rome when I visited the Vatican City and also at least 6 of the important locations used in the book. Dan Brown's books have always been good reads for me (except maybe The Last Symbol, which had a structure almost exactly copying The Da Vinci Code and as such was not very original) not necessarily because of the plausibility of their controversial hypotheses, but because of the puzzle-like structure and the mystery involved. Dan Brown uses a flowing language but also lots of hard-to-guess puzzles within his books. Maybe if you dig under the skin, you might find inconsistencies and far-fetched assumptions (which I believe multiple authors have written about by now).
Angels & Demons tells a quite sensitive story about the struggle between the Catholic Church and the Scientific Establishment. It uses the Vatican and the Conclave - in which the next Pope is elected - as the main ingredients, but throws in various other entities like the CERN (nuclear Physics research centre, the place where Internet was invented), antimatter and others to create a very complex and flowing story. The puzzles are very complex and you need to be an expert in the city of Rome and the period of Leonardo and the likes of Bernini and Raphael, but it is an enjoyable read. It is funny that the movies were shot in the reverse order of the books (The Da Vinci Code was first, and Angels & Demons were second in the movie versions), although they are independent.
Angels & Demons tells a quite sensitive story about the struggle between the Catholic Church and the Scientific Establishment. It uses the Vatican and the Conclave - in which the next Pope is elected - as the main ingredients, but throws in various other entities like the CERN (nuclear Physics research centre, the place where Internet was invented), antimatter and others to create a very complex and flowing story. The puzzles are very complex and you need to be an expert in the city of Rome and the period of Leonardo and the likes of Bernini and Raphael, but it is an enjoyable read. It is funny that the movies were shot in the reverse order of the books (The Da Vinci Code was first, and Angels & Demons were second in the movie versions), although they are independent.