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“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.
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.
