I liked this book. In as much as a person can like, say, cotton candy. It tastes good at first, but after a bit the taste starts to lose some of its sugary goodness and just becomes a sticky mess that you hope doesn't get in your hair or on your shirt.

The premise was interesting: I liked the whole Illuminati and church conspiracy. The suspense of the novel kept me engaged. But like I said, too much of a good thing just becomes problematic. To be honest, after a few hundred pages, the writing really started to annoy me. I wasn't expecting Dan Brown to give me something as well written as say a John le Carre novel, but I wanted more originality. I wanted sentences to pop and zing as they should in a thriller novel.

I guess it comes down to this: ANGELS AND DEMONS was good brain candy, and I'll read other Dan Brown books. In time, of course.

RECOMMENDED (a great three to four hour killer of time)

Eher 4,5 Sterne. Tolle Story und super Schreibstil, allerdings gab es doch einige Stellen, die sich sehr gezogen haben. Man hätte das Buch locker um 100 Seiten kürzen können, ohne wichtige Teile der Story auszulassen :)

Dan Brown writes trash, but sometimes trash can have a certain allure. Sometimes trash sucks you in as you feel forced to reach the bottom of the rubbish pile and see what secrets it may be hiding.

And that’s the strongest aspect of his writing, the pull. Say what you want about the crazily outlandish plot that’s built upon a nest of poor research and flat characters. Say what you want about the anti-Catholic undertones and the semi-racist portrayal of the antagonist, there’s no denying the intensity of the writing.

This is a real page turner, the kind that keeps you reading until three in the morning and makes you want to skip to the end of the book just to see what’s happening. And it’s so entertaining like all good trash should be. Critically speaking, there is so much wrong with this book but I can’t deny how successful it is at keeping the reader involved. It creates so many ridiculous questions that just need to be answered. I stormed through this book at lightning speed.

Looking back though, it is very easy to see the faults. Dan Brown hooks his reader, using mystery and suspense as bait, and it is so very easy to bite on the line. Though as every fish knows, once you’ve been netted life only gets worse. This is a book of very cheap thrills, which can be addictive but will only ever be cheap.

Ésta es la insuperable primera entrega de las aventuras de Robert Langdon, simbólogo de Harvard, a la vez que el fundamental debut de Dan Brown, uno de los más provocadores novelistas de las últimas décadas. Privilegiando el arte del buen contar por encima de todo, Brown es, sin embargo y de manera especialmente conspicua, un escritor de historias enraizadas en los materiales de la alta cultura. Ya en Angels & Demons el renacimiento y la cristiandad son los sendos marcos a través de los cuales se desenvuelve la trama. Sería pertinente recordar que cuando leí The Da Vinci Code, su libro mejor conocido, Brown me pareció un autor de best sellers con un talento decididamente extraordinario para encontrar e inventar sus asuntos y los recovecos que los componen, pero cuyo estilo o prosa "funcional" se me antojaba reprochable. Lejos ahora de aquellos reparos contradictorios, he vuelto a devorar --o a ser devorado por, la sensación que uno siempre tiene con las novelas magistralmente narradas, sean de la naturaleza que sean-- un thriller como pocos.

Angels & Demons es a un tiempo similar y muy distinta del sumamente polémico texto que esgrime al Opus Dei como entidad antagónica. Aunque creo preferir aún ese episodio posterior, el libro al que dedico estas breves líneas no es ni mejor ni peor, y se puede decir antes de nada que ambas novelas son igualmente excelentes en sus respectivas ejecuciones sobre sus propias preocupaciones. En The Da Vinci Code, Langdon es ciertamente un héroe más inteligente aun, y Brown desarrolla todo un tratado ficticio acerca del arte clásico y de sus relaciones con las sociedades secretas que, en un sentido claro, supera a su ocasionalmente redundante temple expositivo, y (en otras ocasiones) acaso titubeante en comparación, en la primera salida del profesor.

No obstante, así como aquélla es un fascinante y perfecto ejercicio narrativo, Angels & Demons se halla a la misma altura, si no en lo que atañe a combinar arte y religión e insertarlos diestramente en el flujo ficticio --que lo hace, pero no con la misma solvencia--, sí en arrastrar la atención del lector en su intriga, atrapándolo para no soltarlo hasta haberle revelado las preguntas y/o respuestas que le ha prometido tan hábilmente. Y los temas de ciencia versus fe terminan convirtiéndose en algo (formidable, conmovedor) que trasciende cualquier límite del libro. Personajes memorables, como la bella Vittoria Vetra, el director del CERN Maximilian Kohler, el camarlengo Carlo Ventresca, el comandante Olivetti, los periodistas de la BBC Gunther Glick y Chinita Macri, y el invencible y perverso asesino contratado por los Illuminati, así como el ambiente del Vaticano en plena elección papal, la geografía romana, los pasadizos recónditos y secretos, los peligros imposibles (de los que Langdon llega a salir inerme, sobrehumano cual James Bond), las intrigas y las traiciones, Bernini y el Sendero de la Iluminación..., son, entre otros, elementos que Brown --quien había publicado sólo un título previo, The Digital Fortress, en 1998-- maneja y despliega con la sabiduría del creador experimentado. Sin duda, una de las mejores muestras de la literatura popular, y otra de las pruebas de que el incandescente género de aventuras puede contener más cosas que las soñadas por los filósofos.

رواية رائعة اخرى لدان براون
تتحدث الرواية عن علاقة الدين بالعلم و هل كل واحد منهما له مساره ام يلتقوا و يكملوا بعضهما

تأثر و حاكى دان براون بحدثيين حقيقين قد ذكرهما فى الرواية بإقتضاب شديد و هما
مقتل البابا يوحنا بولس الأول بعد ثلاثة و ثلاثين يوما فقط على تولى رئاسة الفاتيكان
و قد خرجت الكثير من الاقاويل على انه قتل على يدى الماسونيين و ذلك فى عام 1978
و اما الحدث الثانى هو محاولة مقتل البابا يوحنا بولس الثانى اثناء زيارته للبرتغال على يدى التركى محمد على اغا بالرصاص
و قيل ايضا انها محاولة عن طريق الماسونيين او احدى الجماعات اليمينية المتطرفة
و الغريب فى الامر هو عند بحثى عن هاذين الحدثين وجدث العديد من الشخصيات الغريبة و المريبة لها علاقة بين الطرفين الفاتيكان و الماسونية بالاضافى الى المافيا
فهل الشخصيات التاريخية التى ذكرها دان براون فى الرواية مثل جاليليو و رفائيل سانتى و برنينى كانوا فعلا من متنورين؟
و الكاتب أيضا يروج قصة الماسونية ان المتنورين لم يعد لم وجود و إن كان البعض يقول ان المتنورين تغلغلوا داخل الماسونية و سيطروا عليها

و لمن قرأ الرواية عليه ان يشاهد هذا الفيديو القوى و المثمر عن علاقة الفاتيكان بالماسونية و بالمافيا
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbNK...

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يبدو ان قد الفيديو اثار الكثير من اللغط و اثار قلق منظمة الماسونية المحروسة فإنهم قاموا بمسحه من اليوتيوب و لكن لا اعتقد انهم يستطيعوا ان يمحوا التاريخ من كتب المعارضين لهم و لذلك سأترك اسم فيلم ايطالى يفضح العلاقة بين الفاتيكان و الماسونية و المافيا و السياسة فى ايطاليا و هو موجود على الانترنت مترجم تستطيعوا ان تحملوه بسهوله
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023490/...

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.

The battle between Science and religion is a fascinating topic to read. The danger with this topic is that it might affect the religious sentiments of a few readers.

The author succeeds in getting us glued to the story, which is pretty interesting to read. But there are a lot of twists in it, and the last few are more cinematic than realistic to convince those believing in Science. It should have been written in a better way.

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“Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.”

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“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

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“Genius accepts genius unconditionally”

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Robert Langdon still is a character that always fascinates us, and he doesn’t disappoint us in this book.


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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!

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

& I was left... STUNNED! Just, just, stunned. Incredibly, this one is the one to top when it comes to adventure & history and pace & ingenuity.

I've recently noticed how much history is revered (rightfully) by the modern authors. This is a different type of historical immersion. This is about bringing it to the forefront... something in the past is incredibly relevant, vital, to the present.

Everyone but me had read this, & after Da Vinci Code--that bitch of an overrated heathen--I thought Brown was a phony (in company of Nicholas Sparks, among others). Not so. This is a MASTERPIECE indeed.

I read this in like two sittings. All 710 pages of oversized print.

I was soooo hooked I recalled many other lesser books that have riveted me. This one is so incredibly put together, it is no wonder Brown has been heralded by the general readership, ingrained in the zeitgeist.

The awesomeness of this work lies in the battle between science and religion, perhaps one of the most seminal works about that topic. It explores this duality literally, symbolically... every which way. That they are married, both science and religion, is the thesis. Brown proves this with the precision of a skilled scientist. & with the heart of a devout... historian.

My mouth never went as dry before as much as it did while reading this book. Masterpiece

Is the movie adaptation worse than Percy Jackson or is it the other way around?

بغض النظر إن فيلم (ملائكه وشياطين) شوه الروايه لكنه فيلم جيد فعلا
أكتر مشهد عجبنى فى الفيلم كان حوار بين البطل (توم هانكس) , وقس فى إيده الإذن لتوم هانكس علشان يدخل مكتبة الفاتيكان . فالقس عمل له حاجه زى اختبار نتج عنه حوار من أفضل ما يكون وتعبير حى عن حال كثير من الناس. ونص الحوار دا كالتالى :
القس: سيد لانغدون أنت محق أننى قد أوافق على دخولك المكتبه
لانغدون: شكرًا أيها القس.
القس: قلت إنى قد أوافق ليس إنى سأدخلك . أكثر المخطوطات المسيحة قدسية موجوده فى هذه المكتبة يوجد سؤال أريد أن أسألك إياه اولًا فى مكتب قداسته : ------هل تؤمن بالرب يا سيدى ؟
لانغدون : ابتاه ببساطه اؤمن أن الدين...
القس: لم أسألك إن كنت تصدق ما يقوله البشر عن الرب . سألتك إن كنت تؤمن بالرب.
لانغدون: انا رجل منهجى يخبرني عقلي بأننى لن أفهم الرب ابدًا.
القس: وماذا عن قلبك؟
لانغدون: يخبرني بأننى ليس مقدر لى .
أيها القس الإيمان هبة لم استلمها بعد .

أما عن الرواية فقد نختصر الحديث عنها في :

العلم والدين : ما العلاقة التي تربطهم ببعضهما العبض؟
اتفاق؟ اختلاف؟ تشابه ؟ تعارض؟
لطالما كان هذا السؤال وهذه العلاقه محط الكثير من الانظار ومثار لكثير من الجدل
وهنا يقدم لنا (براون) قصة مثيرة لبيان هذه العلاقة
مُمَثله فى طائفه دينيه ما (الكاثوليكيه)والعلم ممثل فى جماعه قديمه
كم معلومات مبهر مع غلق مثير للاحداث
أحيانا تشعر ان دان براون هو الوريث الشرعى (لأجاثا كريستى ) فى مجال الجريمه
عمل رائع فعلا