Raven Van Baak Van Baak থেকে Svetovrachene, Bulgaria
I have a looooot of feelings about this book and I'm not quite sure where to start. I read the Da Vinci Code first. And I loved the hell out of that book too. So much so that I can't say which I liked more. I was a little skeptical at the beginning of this book because both start off exactly the same: Robert flies off to a foreign country due to the discovery of a dead body. He is introduced to the victim's daughter, who he works alongside for the night and winds up bedding after all is said and done. The start of Angels & Demons was a little slow for my liking. I think it took over a hundred pages before the chase even began, what with Robert being introduced to Kohler and Vittoria. And within those hundred or so pages, there was so much information to take in that it was sort of baffling. We learn about CERN (and if you're like me and science isn't your strong point, it becomes a little blurry at times) and the Illuminati. After Robert enters Vatican City, the pacing was more to my liking. It's quick enough that I wasn't bored at all, but it still offers so much information and detail along with such a heavy plot. The characters are suddenly running around like mad trying to save lives and catch the Illuminati, and it becomes extremely captivating. It was hard to put it down for the middle section of the book. Even the ending has a really surprising plot twist. I was waiting for Kohler to get involved again, but not nearly in the way that he was. This book obviously deals heavily with religion, but I think the main reason it was bearable to me is because Brown gives us the science vs religion battle (and even science WITH religion as a possibility) without shoving either opinion down the reader's throat. The only problems I really had with this book wer the length (570 pages seems ludicrous, but then you sort of get sucked into it and want to keep reading it forever) and the similarity to the Da Vinci Code. I'm hoping the Lost Symbol isn't the same way, because I'm really starting to become a fan of Robert Langdon/Dan Brown.
weird in a good way.