Today in the lunch break, I finished reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.
For people who have already read The Da Vinci Code, this book by the same author isn’t really that different. In fact, the structure of both stories and how they are told is pretty much identical.
So, if you liked one of them, it’s sure you’ll like the other.
This book has a bit more suspense and more twists in it, which I found really cool. In The Da Vinci Code, I was able to guess who the bad guy was pretty early in the story, in this book, it’s harder and more complicated.
That’s something I appreciate in books like this, keeping you on the edge of your seat till the very end, thinking of so many different options.
Still, maybe The Da Vinci Code had some cooler ideas and more symbology which makes it just a bit better.
I’m guessing that if The Da Vinci Code movie does well in the box office, a movie for this one will follow closely, and I hope it does.
I really like Dan Brown’s style of writing and am thinking of going for a third book by him soon, maybe Deception Point or Digital Fortress, although I think a reader once told me the latter wasn’t that good.
Anyway, if I were to rate this book, I’d give it a: 8/10.
Brown’s pre-DaVinci books aren’t, in my humble opinion, of the same caliber as his later books, though certainly as good as most of the standard pulp fiction that pours out of New York these days. Certainly worth reading if bought used.
Do please tell you kind wife that her virtual presence is missed, though her absence understandable.
Cheers.
Jimbo, thanks for the tip.
So what other book by Dan Brown would you suggest I read?
As for my wife, thanks, I’ll pass on the message 🙂
She’s dying to get back online and write again, it’s just that our line at home is dead, and we’re waiting for it to be fixed 🙁
“Digital Fortress” was OK. Pretty much, later books in a writer’s career are of course better than earlier books, but all generalization fail at specifics. There’s always someone who writes but one book, which is proclaimed as brilliant, then one never hears of them again–“To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Catcher in the Rye” being the classic American examples. (Years ago, before discovering the lucrative nature of database design, I wrote novels for a bad living and am replete with war stories of the publishing industry. 🙂 )
It sounds like your home is served by the same fine cable/telephone service provider that we have. 🙂
I, too, enjoyed both The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. 🙂 However! I remember not enjoying Deception Point very much. I wasn’t quite sure why, so I went to my old blog because I remember having written a review on it.
Here it is:
“Tolland could think of only one thing to do. If he dove down to the Triton’s engine box and located the high-pressure air cylinder, he could use it to blow the negative ballast tank. Although blowing the damaged tank would be an exercise in futility, it might keep the Triton near the surface for another minute or so before the perforated tanks flooded again.”
“… the Triton used uniform regulator valves to decrease the number of spare parts the Goya had to carry. Tolland could simply unsnap the high pressure cylinder’s charging hose and reroute it into an emergency ventilation supply regulator on the port side of the sub!”
If you understood any of the above passage, then you may be able to enjoy the book more than me. The book had many scientific and nautical terms that I did not know, which left me a bit lost during the action scenes. I finished reading this book about a month ago, so I don’t quite remember too much other than it left me scratching my head every once in awhile. Also, this being my third book I’ve read from Dan Brown, I thought it was pretty boring of him to always [deleted as to not ruin the story for you]. I wish he’d do it differently, not do it 3 times in a row.
I give it 2.5 out of 5 stars. Sorry Danny-Boy.
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Yikes! I didn’t write very well back then, Did I? hehe!