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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the book that started it all—the first explosive adventure for world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned 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 centuriesold 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 longforgotten Illuminati lair. Angels & Demons is soon to be a major motion picture from Sony Pictures—starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, and Ayelet Zurer, and directed by Ron Howard.
- Sales Rank: #1042689 in Books
- Brand: Washington Square Press
- Published on: 2009-03-31
- Released on: 2009-03-31
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.30" w x 5.31" l, .91 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 496 pages
- ISBN13: 9781416580829
Amazon.com Review
It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Look Inside the Motion Picture Angels & Demons (Sony Pictures, 2009)
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Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca with College of Cardinals
Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon
Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Straus and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca
Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra, and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca
Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca
From Publishers Weekly
Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra's death is far from clear. Vetra's daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren't allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown's tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation. (May)
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"A breathless, real-time adventure. . . . Exciting, fast-paced, with an unusually high IQ." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By Grant
Have you ever heard someone say "Oh the movie was OK but the book was much better"? In this case it is the opposite. Go see the movie. It was great. Great screenplay. Great acting. Great production values. But I made the mistake of seeing the movie before reading the book. My wife on the other hand read the book THEN saw the movie. Here are my complaints about the book:
1) Cowardly foreshadowing. The author tells all the characters about something but leaves the reader in the dark. This is a device to build suspence that instead builds resentment on the part of the reader.
2) Poor sentence structure. e.g. He says that St. Peter's tomb is 6 stories under the Earth when he meant below the surface.
3) Bad science. e.g. if antimatter is 100 percent efficient vs fission which is 1.5 percent efficient then how can antimatter be 1,000 more powerful than a nuclear bomb? Or it the amount of antimatter in the story can vaporize a half a mile, how can St. Peter's tomb or the hazmat vault at CERN contain the explosion?
4) Technology errors: There is a scene where the people come out into the crowd of reporters with camera lights blaring and flash-bulbs exploding. When is the last time anybody used a flash-bulb?
My wife enjoyed how the movie was so different than the book. I was annoyed reading the poorly written book after seeing the great job Ron Howard and the screenplay writers did with the movie.
Buy this book? As they say in Texas - El Paso.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Entertaining, But Flawed
By Dave_42
This is the first Dan Brown book that I have read, so I can not compare it with his other stories. The plot is about the re-emergence of a secret society (The Illuminati) which is the ancient nemesis of The Vatican. The story takes place after the death of a Pope (a fictitious one, not John Paul II), when Robert Langdon (a Harvard Professor of religious iconology) is contacted by the head of CERN (a European scientific research group) to provide information on The Illuminati which they believe is involved in the death of one of their leading scientists. As the plot unfolds, it appears that The Illuminati has planted a powerful bomb (with antimatter stolen from CERN) in the Vatican. They also appear to have kidnapped the four leading candidates to become the new Pope with the intention of executing them in a fashion to tell the world that they are still around and powerful, and in an effort to destroy the Catholic Church.
There are many good things about this book. It was easy to read, and the reader is pulled into the story, making its 550+ pages fly by. The characters are interesting, and the conspiracy plot is fairly well done, taking the reader from place to place in Rome and Vatican City. Despite its flaws, for the most part the book was very entertaining.
On the other hand, there are many problems with the story. Some of the "facts" presented in the telling of the history of the Illuminati are wrong, and this does not appear to have been done for plot reasons. The situation with the bomb was not done very well, because the scenario which is presented should have resulted in the bomb being found relatively quickly. Finally, the last part of the book is messy. There are many things thrown in at the end in an attempt to surprise the reader, but it really doesn't read true to the rest of the story; at least not for me.
This is not a bad book. It has a great concept, and for the most part is fun to read. However, the ending and some significant holes in the story are the reasons that I give it two stars. There are better choices available that involve secret societies from hundreds of years ago, such as "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Rough Draft of The Da Vinci Code...
By Robert Graves
Dan Brown is a good writer in many respects. He knows how to milk a scene for all it's worth, he knows how to create conflict, and he's very well researched. He also knows that Americans love a good conspiracy and that knowledge has kept him at the top of the best-seller's list for a year with The Da Vinci Code.
Angels and Demons is "Robert Langdon's First Adventure," according to the advertising on the book's front. In Langdon, Brown has created the new Indiana Jones - an adventure-seeking academic - only Langdon is smarter than Indy ever dreamed of being.
He's also much more of a wuss. This fact isn't quite so clear in The Da Vinci code, but in Angels and Demons, where Brown was obviously still honing his chops as a writer, Langdon is an emasculated pansy for the vast majority of the novel. He's afraid of guns, tags along as the female protagonist leads us through the plot, and always realizes everything just a little too late. Typical of a Dan Brown novel, to talk much about the plot would be to give away his much-used secrets, so I really can't get too into it, but suffice it to say that if anyone else had written Angels and Demons they would've been sued for plagiarism - it's unbelievably similar to The Da Vinci Code. Secret Sect, huge cover-ups, holy church doctrines - all the same stuff.
Aside from a limp hero and its unabashed similarity to his more recent work, Angels and Demons also suffers from the staggering leaps of faith it demands on the audience. There is, quite literally, a "Deus ex machina" ending, 20,000 foot freefalls from helicopters without parachutes, and a total pilfering of the Vatican secret libraries. This is meant to be an epic tale told on an epic scale, and I suppose it loosely succeeds, but whereas Da Vinci Code was impossible to put down, you may not even make it through the exceptionally long Angels and Demons.
I respect Dan Brown greatly and I'm excited to read what he comes out with next. But despite Angels and Demons' similarity to the Da Vinci Code I can see why it never enjoyed even a fraction of its success (for the above reasons). This feels like a first novel - the one you don't publish, but keep on the shelf and rewrite after you've made it big. I guess Brown's doing it the other way around.
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