Es gibt viele Dan Brown Hasser da draußen, die behaupten seine Bücher wären keine richtige "Literatur". Ich wollte mich selbst mal an seinen Robert Langdon Romanen probieren, da er ja wohl nicht grundlos einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren der Welt sein kann. Und jetzt weiß ich auch warum!
Ich habe zuvor noch nur nie ein Buch gelesen, indem sich Historische und Thrillerelemente überschneiden. Jetzt frage ich mich wieso eigentlich nicht...Es war nahezu immer spannend und die Grundstory hat mir wahnsinnig gut gefallen! Finde aber man hätte die Story ruhig kürzen können, ohne wichtige Handlungselemente zu verlieren. Aber da ist bestimmt in den nächsten Romanen noch Luft nach oben!

Not as a master piece as Da Vinci Code. This book is more into thriller and adventure plot. The plot is also not as controversial as Da Vinci Code. The morale story is focusing on science vs religion.

Its a plausible plot.

Angels and Demons is the first in Dan Brown’s series of books featuring the character Robert Langdon.

This book contains some great lines, perhaps none more fitting for the modern world than, ‘Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.’

As with The Da Vinci Code, no one is going to read Drug Gang and think about similarities to Angels and Demons. Dan Brown has influenced me however. What Dan Brown’s writing really brought home to me as an author, is the importance of making your story compelling. Dan Brown grabs his readers from the start and never lets them go, which is something I believe all authors should try to do.

The Da Vinci Code brought me to the work of Dan Brown, but for me Angels and Demons is the superior book. Having said that, both books are very enjoyable and extremely compelling.

بدأت هذه الرواية كنوع من التجربة ، وأنا أشك بإمكانية استمتاعي بمثل ذلك النوع ، لكني فوجئت بما تحتويه من متعة بالاضافة للمزيج المدهش بين الخيال والعلم و الدين والفن وايضا تشويق الالغاز البوليسية والمؤامرات ولكن ..... للاسف كان من الممكن أن تصل الى حد الكمال - بالنسبة لي - لولا الاسراف في الوصف الحركي و المبالغة و الاصرار على ان تبدو الرواية كفيلم امريكي مستخدما كل تيمات الافلام الامريكية الساذجة

“Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story...”

This is a book no more than it is the words of an outcome of science and religion combined. That is my first time reading a book by Dan Brown, but I watched many of his interviews. In almost all of these interviews, Dan Brown mentions that he, as a child, lived in the two worlds of science and religion, as his mother was a church organist and his father was mathematics teacher.

Angels and Demons introduces Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon in a breathtaking adventure to save the Vatican City, Rome from a perilous threat from an ancient brotherhood died four hundred years ago. And on this very day, they attempt to continue their grand vendetta against the Church. Sorry if that is considered a spoiler, but this book has a lot to do with four, four altars of science, four cardinals, four churches, four... hell, that's my fourth read in July!

The events started when Robert Langdon received a phone call asking him to come to Switzerland immediately. When he refused, he was sent a photograph of a dead physicist, on his chest branded an ambigram which read one word, Illuminati. Illuminati are a satanic cult who fought religion and Church for decades, theirs was the weapon of science. Literally, Illumination means lighting, as to enlighten humans from their ignorance caused by the Church, and orienting them to the path of light, of science. As the events roll in a thrilling, unexpected way, Robert Langdon learns the cause of the man's death, and finds himself in a race against time to save Vatican from a totally new technology pioneered by the late scientist.

One of the main things that I truly admired was the locations, the author takes us on a journey in Rome, describing every place they go to through the events, which is very good but ponderous in a way. Dan Brown knows how to write, knows how to make the reader worry about the good side and fear the evil, he knows how to play with time. But the most thing I liked is how he combined all these facts in a work of fiction in a very deft way, with well-developed characters, who are also dumb to some extent. I was really attached by the camerlengo's EPIC speeches about science and religion, until page 5oo, perhaps. After that the story turned to an utter madness. The ending was truly disappointing. It was as if Dan Brown is showing his skills in creating meaningless plot-twists!

Although his protagonist is atheist, Dan Brown didn't tell his story from one-side point of view, he was unprejudiced towards science or religion, he was neutral, at least that's what I thought. The author also was often calling his interesting main character Langdon, not Robert, I wonder did he intend to make a Robert Langdon series or this book was meant to be a stand-alone book! The last thing I didn't like was the absurd relation between Robert and Vittoria, quite needless and unbelievable. Vittoria herself was stupidly over-dramatic through the events.

I would recommend it to any one who loves thrillers and doesn't mind a lot of information stuffed between the lines.

I wasn’t expecting to love it as much as i did!
All the historical and art stuff really were vivid!
Little too much exposition though made it a little tiresome but otherwise is an engrossing read!

4/5

Right.

I remembered reading this one years ago. At that time, it was still the hottest topic in our country if you're talking about religion. If some people saw you reading this book, they would think that you're an anti-Christ, you're part of the Illuminati and all that ridiculous stuff.

Which is silly because this is just a book. A really well written book that will leave you either breathless and smart or maybe both. This was my first Dan Brown book and what really made me a fan to his works is the fact that he can weave a really good explanation to his stories that would make you just believe in it.

That's that.

دان براون من أفضل كتاب الرواية بالنسبة لى
التكامل ال بيعمله ف قصصه بين العلم والأدب والفن والعمارة والجريمة ممتع جدا

A quote from the book: "Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and...provided an array of gagetry for our convenience...but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies... Even the technology that unites us, divides us. We are electronically connected to the globe and yet we feel utterly alone. Skepticism has become a virtue. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses, and presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning...and all it finds is more questions. The ancient war between science and religion is over. Science has won...

Mankind took thousands of years to progress from the wheel to the car and only decades from the car to space... We measure scientific progress in weeks... The rift between us grows deeper and deeper, and as religion is left behind, people find themselves in a spiritual void. WE cry out for meaning... We see UFO's, have spirit contact, and out of body experiences... They are a desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by its own enlightenment and its inability to accept meaning in anything removed from technology..."

I KNOW! Too much, but when you can combine science and religion into a book that piques your intellect - it's a winner for me! :)

There's this argument you sometimes see, that Richard Dawkins spends a bit of time discussing in The God Delusion. Perhaps religion is all nonsense, it goes; but, when you consider how much great art it has inspired, surely that, on its own, is justification enough. Dawkins, you won't be surprised to hear, doesn't buy this, and thinks that people like Dante, Michelangelo and Hesse would have done great stuff even if they hadn't been inspired by the Church. He goes so far as to say that maybe they did in spite of the Church. I can see both sides of this, and I don't feel completely convinced either way. But let's get to the actual point.

So, a couple of days ago, I was watching the movie of Angels and Demons. (The waterboarding hadn't worked out, and my interrogators were becoming a little desperate). Now, most likely it was aftereffects from the electric shocks and the attack dogs, but I couldn't help thinking that some parts of this film were rather good. The art direction and cinematography seemed well done; there were some excellent shots, which I'm still seeing clearly in front of me. I was particularly impressed by the beautifully composed scene in which Tom Hanks runs up a huge spiral staircase, overtaking a stately procession of red-robed cardinals; the anti-matter explosion at the end, with its Blake-like echoes of God speaking from the heavens, was also impressive. And Hanks, who just seemed to be thinking about his paycheck in The Da Vinci Code, had perhaps been stung by the negative reviews. This time, I thought he did a fine job. To my surprise, I actually started finding his interpretation of Professor Langdon interesting.

Then it hit me. What a clever trick, and what an insidious post in that ongoing debate about Art and Religion! Here you had some people who, in fact, were quite gifted artists, and who could have done all kinds of things. What they were doing, though, was working on a film based on a mediocre religious book with a creaky treasure-hunt plot and wooden dialogue. Despite the problems they were faced with, they'd found some interesting and worthwhile angles. Maybe Dan Brown wasn't all bad. And, similarly... well, he'd really got me. Compared to this vicious, under-the-belt attach, Dawkins's comments seemed extremely moderate.

No wonder Catholics don't much like Mr. Brown. I can't say I'm capable of enjoying his prose style; but, as a piece of conceptual art, I was forced to admire the passion and ingenuity. Three stars!

در حال حاضر دن براون تنها نویسنده ای که منو ب وجد میاره، کتاب ترکیب جالبی از علم، مذهب و تاریخ بود! مهمترین ویژگی داستان غیرقابل پیش بینی بودن اون ب معنی واقعی کلمه است! درست اون جایی ک تو تا ته داستانو حدس میزنی همه چی عوض میشه و .... دلم میخاس ی عالمه از جمله ها قشنگشو بنویسم اما ب دلیل درس و مشق بسیار از این حرکت معذوریم؟!؟!؟!؟
بعدن نوشت: شاید خوندن این کتاب در بیوتکی دن من موثر بوده باشه

لو فقط يظهر أمامي ذاك القائل أن الروايات مجرد مضيعة للوقت وأنها لا تحوي اي فائدة

عمل تستمتع به أدبيا وعلميا وتاريخيا وجغرافيا وحتى دينيا ...رائع