Dan Brown - Angels & Demons Books

Pros: fast-paced and tense
Cons: cardboard characters, heavy-handed plotting, long and boring digressions into semi-philosophy

Back when he was a mere motivational speaker instead of the Chicken Soup industry's go-to guy, Jack Canfield would tell his audiences that the phrase "Ready. Aim. Fire." is all wrong. Instead, he'd tell his rapt audiences, it should be "Ready. Fire. Aim." ...

Pros: Exciting action from beginning to end, likable "good" guys and unlikable "evil-doers"
Cons: Not overly accurate scientifically

I've been meaning to read Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" since I read his more famous "Da Vinci Code".  "Angels & Demons" was written a few years before the "Code" and introduced the "world-renowned symbologist" Robert Langdon.  Just as ...

Pros: Interesting plot that kept my interest. Robert's first adventure.
Cons: Some of the scientific explanations were confusing and slowed the book down.

A few months ago I finally read The Da Vinci Code. I really enjoyed the book and decided that I wanted to read Dan Brown's other books. I picked up Angels & Demons, which also featured Robert ...

Pros: High-speed frantic, page-turning plot with lots of twists and turns!
Cons: The speed of the plot will stretch many readers' credibility to the breaking point!

Harvard symbologist and religious historian, Robert Langdon, is intrigued and somewhat puzzled to find himself peremptorily summoned to CERN, the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, world’s foremost research establishment in ultra high ...

Pros: The frantic pace of events almost makes you forget...
Cons: ... that the prose is less-than brilliant.

Dan Brown has been embraced most enthusiastically by the book-buying masses. He has also, however, engendered a correspondingly negative reaction from certain of the literati. In a certain sense, I can empathize with both points of view. Brown ...

Pros: interesting premise and plot
Cons: characters are flat, writing style is sometimes overwrought

Ever since I learned to read, I've been obsessed with reading whatever I can get my hands on. Most of the time I enjoy the books that people recommend, but lately I've been struggling. A friend lent me Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, ...

Pros: Interesting scientific diversions if you enjoy that sort of things
Cons: If you've read The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons feels like its rough draft

Let’s play a quick game of Name that New York Times Bestseller. I’ll give you a few subtle hints: 1. The story opens with the shocking murder of a high-profile intellectual whose body is defaced with mysterious symbols. 2. Robert Langdon, ...

Pros: A he!! of a book!!
Cons: Overblown evil and gruesome killings may upset some

Angels and Demons, the third novel of Dan Brown, begins with a now-familiar brief Prologue, describing a violent death and setting the stage for a taut tale of suspense, science, intrigue, conspiracy, betrayal, and heroics, with architecture, art, ...

Pros: Fast-paced, historical information is great, interesting and thought-provoking points brought up
Cons: Vittoria's character could be developed a bit more

Well, in a sense, yes. I have never seen a book or author hyped up as much as Dan Brown's Angels and Demons has been. I know that the Da Vinci Code was actually written first, but I bought this one first because it is the prequel to the other. ...

Pros: A thrill a minit.
Cons: Thin and murkily-conceived history, religion, aeronautics, and science dog this otherwise fun chase-novel.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That seems to be Dan Brown’s motto as he pens novel after novel. His formula for writing each of his first four novels seems to be: (a) begin with the murder of a prominent person, (b) involve some ...

Pros: A great chase around Rome; a good helping of excitement
Cons: Hard to suspend disbelief in some spots; twists can come fast; a few others

The first time I heard about the Illuminati, I was watching the Gargoyles series. You know, the animated one? But that’s not important. I was just excited to know the name. In fact, that’s why I wanted to read this so much – no one ever ...

Pros: suspenseful, action-packed, and thought-provoking
Cons: some characters need more depth

A scientist is murdered in his own lab. Branded on his chest is a strange symbol, that of the Illuminati, an ancient brotherhood thought to be defunct. American symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to use his knowledge of this group in the hopes of ...

Pros: Well written, tense plot
Cons: Not much character development, weak bad guy

Angles and Demons is the second book I read by Dan Brown. I have read all of his books and I really do find them to be fun entertaining thrillers. Angles and Demons was Dan Browns first book and also the first to use the character of Robert Langdon. Like ...

Pros: Great book which tackles the Illuminati, science, symbology and the Vatican in an amazing fashion.
Cons: You need to suspend belief a little at the main characters' knowledge and logic.

Deep within a secure lab, the answer to the world’s energy needs has been solved. An experiment has produced a substance with untold power – but someone else found out about the secret. Now, a scientist lies dead and his secret has been ...

Pros: Entertaining, fascinating, clever.
Cons: A ridiculous ending.

Rather topical, my reading of this, it seems - what with all recent Papal goings-on, it correlated rather closely with events in Vatican City (although mercifully not too closely ...). Dan Brown's third book, this introduces for the first time the ...