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Angels and Demons by: Dan Brown

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Rating: - Call me cynical ???

Just call me an old cynic, but having read and watched both "DaVinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", I am amazed how one person can solve Millenia old mysteries in just 24 hours and then never claim the credit for it ???

On a serious note, I bought and watched the above more for the historical notes Brown includes. These have provided for me a spring board for my own investigations.

Rating: - Hang On For Dear Life!

It's a cliché, but I don't care, this is a real rollercoaster ride of a book. Excellent entertainment from beginning to end. To encapsulate the happenings of one day in these pages was a real feat. Not a second is wasted and none of it is trivial (unless you count religious trivia!)

The characters as just what a thriller needs: they have enough depth and background story to relate to the events and no more. There is a psychological angle, but again that serves the story. Robert Langdon is of the Indiana Jones mould, but this is not incongruous. Vittoria Vetra is the strong female with a brain and guts; she is also of a type and this type works well in the story.

Dan Brown keeps the plot twisting, so much, in fact, that you look at the pages ahead and wonder just how much more story he can tell. He manages it magnificently, laying false trails, backtracking and making the reader re-examine the evidence and events.

He is a master of descriptive detail and conjures the Roman setting in a way that etches itself on the reader's imagination.

Secondary characters are rich and varied and as with the main characters you might think you know them, but are constantly made to re-assess what you think you know.

This is a book that was crying out to be a film and it would have been foolish had it not been made. A great piece of reading.

Rating: - Great start predictable end.

Despite the clone like begginnings of this book when compared with the Da Vinci code it has great potential and I found myself almost unable to put the book down. For me however the ending became obvious from about halfway through the book which dampened my enjoyment slightly but I still enjoyed it thorougly even mor e than the Da Vinci code.

Rating: - Better than the Da Vinci Code

Loved it - thrilling and exctiting each page turn was eagerly awaited. Better than the Da Vinci Code

Rating: - Chicken found roasted in horrific oven accident!!

Dan Brown, Dan Brown. Where does one start with Dan Brown? I'm sure he's a nice guy if you met him,it's just a shame that he can't write really. I wonder if he has any other talents or abilities in life which would bring something worthwhile to the world....Maybe he'd make a good door-stop, or you could use his head to keep your pens and pencils in. Then again, he's a richer man than me after all the dross he's committed to paper. But is he happy.......?

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