Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

A true barnburner!:

Next to Britt Gillette's "Conquest of Paradise", this is the best book I've read in a long time. I'm a first time Dan Brown reader but I'm hooked! I stayed up all night and didn't quit until I finished, blurry eyed and sleepy. I found myself believing every word and had to stop and remember that it's just fiction! I was amazed at the inside information about the Vatican (especially the library), and I finally got out a map and books from my trip to Rome to see if I could find all the churches. Anti-matter,... more info

Good quick suspense - get a European proof-reader next time!:

This book has the same structure as the later Da Vinci Code (which I read first), to a remarkable extent: we've got a devious inside source leading an idealistic brutish assassin to do his bidding, the brilliant Langdon, beautiful European woman, family ties revealed at the end, dashes across countries, secret societies, hidden symbols placed by a great master, etc. But that's okay. Nobody expects Dan Brown novels to be Pulitzer-standard, and assuming you enjoyed the Da Vinci Code you'll like this one too.... more info

Incredible, yet incredulous:

"Angels and Demons," although incredibly fast-paced and action-packed, lacks plausibility. The protagonist, a Harvard symbologist whose intellect and intuition rival those of any figure in all of history, flies to Geneva to assist in the investigation of the murder of a renowned physicist (who also happens to be a Catholic priest). Furthermore, the murder occurs at the global headquarters of everything scientific, or so the reader is led to believe, known as CERN. The Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is... more info

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