From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the first breathless adventure featuring world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon.
In Angels & Demons, Langdon is summoned on his first assignment: to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization—the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth…the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.
An explosive international thriller, full of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. …
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the first breathless adventure featuring world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon.
In Angels & Demons, Langdon is summoned on his first assignment: to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization—the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth…the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.
An explosive international thriller, full of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. Source: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-Demons/Dan-Brown/9781442365476
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The book is okay-ish. The facts are so absurd that I've elected to ignore it - if you read this book and think "Oh, the author is so knowledgeable and attentive to details and match things up perfectly", then you should think again. Check the facts so that you're not misinformed.
One bonus star for the surprising twist, but I'm not sure I'd ever read books like this for a second time.
The story was entertaining enough and made me crave a trip to Rome very very badly, but the writing put me off. If Goodreads had half stars, it would be 3.5, because it is a very action-packed story in the end.
But I rolled my eyes plenty of times, because the characters are just way too over the top. Robert Langdon ist the most unscholarly scholar ever, just like Vittoria, etc. If he hadn't gone so over the top with the characters, I would have liked it more, but then, that's probably a bit much too ask in a book that deals with 'Save the Vatican from ultimate destruction in a 4 hour timeframe'.
