الصراع الأزلي و الأبدي بين الدين والعلم ، رواية متخمة بالمعلومات عن تاريخ الطبقة المستنيرة أو الإلوميناتي و عن تاريخ كامل للمآثر الأشهر في روما و
الفاتيكان من كنائس و نافورات و لوحات ومنحوتات كل هذا في قالب مشوق و لأحداث هذه الرواية المتسارعة و الغريبة نوعا ما

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إستغرقت وقتا ليس بقصير في قراءتها لكن وقت أطول و أجمل في البحث عن المآثر و الكنائس و المنحوتات التي وصفها دان براون بعبقرية و بساطة وكأنني أجوب شوارع العاصمة رومـا التي لطالما تمنيت زيارتها ، و أزور أعظم معالم دولة الفاتكان و التي كانت معلوماتي عنها ضئيلة جدا ولم أجد فرصة أو فضول للبحث عنها قبل قراءتي لهذه الرواية

فهمت الآن لماذا هذه الرواية أثارت ضجة عند صدورها ، قدمت صورة عكس المألوف عن الكنيسة و رجال الدين بل إقتلعت منهم تلك الصورة الملائكية و الباعثة لكل الخير و كونها مجمع الأخيار و ذوي القلوب الرحيمة المؤمنة بل برغم كل شيء صورت الكنيسة عبارة عن مذبح آخر و السب�� في العديد من الجرائم البشعة ، وهذا ربما لأول مرة يطرح بهذه البساطة و الواقعية داخل سطور رواية و كما حمل رجال الدين مسؤرلية تعصبهم الديني و الذي هو سبب نفور الكثيرين من الكنيسة حسب رأيه !
(لا توجد على أرضنا ملائكة أو الشياطين)

لا طبقة العلماء هي الشياطين و رجال الدين ليسو بملائكة كانت هذه هي الفكرة المحورية للرواية واستطاع دان براون طرحها وصياغتها بعبقرية و براعة كل يمثل نفسه و قناعاته و تفكيره و تصرفاته وستظل

أول رواية أقرأها لدان براون و لم تكون الأخيرة
وستظل من أجمل ما قرأت

Książki Dana Browna to mój nowy comfort read

That was one of the best novels I`ve ever read
Here is one of the most few fact I believe in...
There`s a very tiny thin hair between every thing and it`s opposite...good & evil...dark & light...matter & antimatter..
Now...dose the scinetist have the right to creat whatever the hell he wanna creat just because he found out that he really CAN creat it?...YES...but how many leiutis that have been created along the way since the very beginning of the human history and was used the our own destruction?...
Another fact we need to face...This is a cruel world we live in...And the human is a bloody cruel creature...
The truth is...We need religion...Some control...Something to make us stop and think for a moment...To ask ourselves...Am I doing the right thing?...What I`m about to creat...Is it really gonna help the people?...Or it`s simply gonna make life a litte more harder?...As if it wasn`t hard enough already :)

"شعر لانغدون بالصدمة تصيبه كأى شخص أخر موجود فى الغرفة (بالنسبة لمن يقرا الرواية فالصدمة لكل من يقرا الرواية )
" كان ذهن لانغدون مشوشا ... ويناضل محاولا ايجاد مركزا للجاذبية يشده من جديد الى الارض ويعيد اليه رشده "
وهذا بالظبط ماسوف تشعر به عند الانتهاء من الرواية وخاصة اخر 100صفحة تقريبا من الرواية
لاأنكر انى فى بداية الرواية قلت لنفسى " جماعة سرية اخرى وستكون الرواية شبيهة لشيغرة دافينشى " لكن بالطبع دان براون سيقلب تفكيرك وبعد ان شعرت بالملل قليلا فى البد��ية وعدم الحماس ادخلنى دان فى دوامته واعتقد ان مع دان براون لاتحاول ان تتوقع الاحداث لاتتصور انك ذكى وتتوقع ماسيحدث لسبب بسيط ان دان سيقلب كل شىء انه بالفعل داخل رأسك ويقرأ أفكارك وسيوهمك انك قد توصلت بالفعل للحقيقة لكنه لن يلبث ان يصدمك لكن كان هناك شىء وحيد على ماأعتقد هو ماتوقعته منطقيا ان يحدث وقد حدث بالفعل حتى ان لم تحدث النهاية كما ظننت
رواية مشوقة وممتعة وقلم مميز لدان براون

In the first, I don't know, 30 pages or so a character is "overwhelmed" by the smell of frozen urine. Frozen things don't smell, let alone overwhelmingly. Shortly thereafter an expert in religion (or whatever he is, I've tried to block it out) is shocked to see a study containing both scientific and religious items. I should have put the book down then, but then I would have missed unbelievable characters, hackneyed descriptions and spitting in the face of the laws of physics and physiology. Use the book to balance your wobbly kitchen table and read the back of your cereal box instead.

I enjoyed "The Da Vinci Code" as a trashy good time, but then read this one and just couldn't stop rolling my eyes. Not only was it silly and formulaic, it made the silly formula underlying "The Da Vinci Code" all too clear. Really? Another middle-aged yet strangely attractive/brilliant male protagonist -- oh wait, the same one from the other book? Another grisly murder of an old dude kicking things off? Another hot foreign chick, related to the dead dude, helping solve the mystery? Another secret society intertwined with the Vatican? Really? Really? I can enjoy a trashy book, sure, but not when you're rubbing my nose in the stink...

I remember the first time I watched "The Da Vinci Code" and how much it scared me. I seriously hated it but after 2006 things changed for me. What I found interesting before changed. I become kind of obsessed with cults, religions, believes, signs and many other things. So I watched the movie on TV and I loved it, and now I'm a fan and can't wait for the other movies to come.



I bought "Angels and Demons" and I'm moving quickly in it. The information are interesting but not all are correct regarding Islam. But it's fiction so I'm eating it up. But I find that I don't like Robert Langdon in the book, I prefer Tom Hanks portrayal in the movies, and I liked the changes made in the movies. I prefer the thriller without the romance, and I prefer them without mentioning us or linking us to Illuminati and I like the changes made to the other characters and events.



I read this book about several times because I keep researching the terms, locations, and everything I don't know, that sometimes I lose touch with the actual story. I really HATE how much the author keep insulting and demeaning Arabs, Arabic language and Muslims, but I think the author is anti religion in general now. He seems to despise Christianity and thinks Islam is Inferior. The main character is supposed to be a scholar but the information about us is wrong most of the time even the way Arabic is described and written is rubbish.



What's so interesting to me right now, is the science mentioned in the book, it's what interested me most. I'm enchanted by the jet that took an hour from USA to Switzerland, I'm intrigued by the center in Switzerland, it made me wish that I was into science, or that I was a scientist... I love the idea of that place, I'm currently following them on Twitter. CERN is the one that invented the internet we are all obsessed with, the idea that they think it's not their "best" work makes me so curious about what else they invent and do. I would like to read a book about their work and what they are working on.



I think Vittoria Vetra's father was such an amazing guy. Also, is there a full list of the books in the Vatican library? It seems they are wasting away in there.



The differences between the movie and book are varied, many things in the book is omitted from the movie like the Shia assassin, he called Hassassin (Order of Assassins), and he made him speak Arabic when in fact he must be Persian and they were against Muslims (read your history). Mr. Kohler was also a character in the book that didn't make it to the screen, his story is sad, he was raised by religious parents who didn't give him medicine as a child so he became crippled. He hates religion and values science, and is the head boss of CERN. The camerlengo didn't say my favorite line in the movie but Vittoria did in the book (do you believe in God? I did not ask you if you believe what man says about God. I asked you if you believe in God. There is a difference.) Vittoria wasn't in CERN when the murder of her father happened, that was also changed. They made her just another co-worker who was working on this antimatter project (no Big Bang Theory was mentioned in the movie) she was in shorts all through the book, while Robert was in a bloodied wet cardigan, no one gave him a change of clothes (which I'm glad they changed in the movie, he changed in the end from clothes from the hospital), the church and the residence were very harsh in the book but not in the movie. The four guys who were kidnapped all died, there are reporters as secondary characters in the book as well. The camerlengo's was raised by the pope he poisoned who took him in as an orphan to a religious mother who insisted that her boy was a messenger of God. He also was in the army was a pilot and he was good at skydiving (it was all planned). In the book Robert is so into himself, not in the book. The saddest part that Vittoria's father was was also a priest wasn't in the movie. He is my favorite. And Robert keeps saying "Godspeed" what does it mean? Oh and Robert was with the camerlengo on the helicopter and antimatter. I don't know if anyone who can jump from a chopper into a running river and survive... that was a James Bond moment. Of course, the ending is different, Robert didn't score Vittoria.



One last thing, as much as I love libraries I would never want to visit the Vatican library because of the oxygen thing... omg! What are they thinking? Reprint people, don't kill yourselves.



Do you remember Emma Watson's speech? In page 580 the camerlengo says: "If not me, then who? If not now, then when?"
I'm speechless.



"Galileo was an Illuminatus. And he was also a devout Catholic. He tried to soften the church's position on science by proclaiming that science did not undermine the existence of God, but rather reinforced it. He wrote once that when he looked through his telescope at the spinning plants, he could hear God's voice in the music of the spheres. He held that science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance, heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry, the endless contest of light and dark."

When I read this, my eyes filled with tears, because this is Islam. Every human knows God.

Because the movie version of Angels & Demons is being released soon, I decided to read the book first. As is almost always the case, I'm sure the book is far better. The book has great suspense that keeps you interested on each and every page. Because this edition is the illustrated edition, I also enjoyed doing arm-chair travelling in Rome and Vatican City. The photographs are beautiful and are very helpful in picturing in your mind where the story unfolds.

“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.

Angels and Demons is a definitive page-turner. It's over 600 pages and you could barely tell. I finally get why Dan Brown is amongst all-time best selling authors. The story takes place over a 24-hour period which helps intensify urgency.

However good it is, it feels does formulaic and mostly predictable except for about the last 100 pages or so which is bonkers. There is also another nitpick, I don't know if anyone else felt it too and it's about how time was used throughout the novel. There are scenes you can pick apart that play out like a 20 minute scene but then you realize it's barely been 5 minutes in book.

All right, a few suggestions. DO NOT START THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE TO GET UP THE NEXT MORNING. Forget it, you WILL NOT be able to put it down. I suggest a long weekend, an early morning start and unplugging the telephone.

Brown has successfully created a character driven suspense tale (an unusual achievement in and of itself). The people here are as arresting as the ephemeral strands of history that tie the tale together with continually tantalizing possibilities - Add edge-of-your-seat suspense and I defy anyone to put it down before each puzzle is unravelled, every villain identified and our heroes crowned. The best part is you THINK you know how each of those things will be managed. Forget it, you don't have a clue.

So before Dan Brown wrote he was a pop singer/songwriter and Angels and Demons was a name of the album’s name before Divine Intervention!!! Holy Shih-Tzu!!!ROFL

Being a fan of classic rock and metal to name your pop album Angels and Demons would be crazy. Thank God he quit and I am sure the Church would have prayed he stayed!!!

But what if.....

He wanted to send a demo to the producers :

Pop album tracks-
a) Oops dropped another book title again-Da Vinci Code(Brittany Spears)
b) It’s a Dan Brown Thriller(Dan doing the Michael Jackson Thriller song moves)
c) Rolling in the Deep (Mysteries of Christianity)-Adele

Rock Album tracks-
a) Rocked the Church like a Hurricane- Scorpions
b)Sweet Child(Angels and Demons) of Mine-Guns and Roses
c) Dude Looks Like a Lady (Last Supper Painting)-Aerosmith
d)Highway to Hell(ACDC)
e) The church literally Living on a Prayer-Bon Jovi
Metal Album tracks-
a)Symphony of Destruction-Megadeth
b) Hallowed Be Thy Book (Iron maiden)
c) Master of Puppets (Metallica)

EDM track:
a) Priory of Zion wave (Some good funky beats)

K -Pop track:
a) Illuminati Gangnam Style (A couple of Serious guys in robes breakout into Gangnam style dance).

Okay, guys time to get serious about this very serious book......Illuminati Gangnam Style...ROFL!!!!!