Paul Humphreys rambles on....

Paul Humphreys rambles on....
News and Views

« No turning ! | Main | Three into two won't... »

Thursday March 31, 2005

Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

This is the last of the four Dan Brown books I have read. In some ways it is the best of all four. However it is spoiled by the ending which is a jumbled mess. How Langdon who survives this book to appear in the Da Vinci code can fall out of a helicopter, make a parachute out of a hankerchief and then use it to guide himself to the raging Tiber, fall in and then be plucked out unconscious but alive is a mystery to me. I think a better ending could have been written with more with a closer grip on reality. However there is one twist at the end which was very unexpected and clever.

Langdon as usual is dragged into a conspiracy this time involving anti-matter which a secretive scientist in CERN has managed to make. It gets stolen of course and the criminals this time are the Illuminati who are out to blitz the Vatican , and the front runners in the Papal election and anyone else who gets in their way. Langdon of course has to have a pretty sidekick who works with him in this story. She was the adopted child of the secretive scientist.

So all in all a good read, shame about the ending.

( Mar 31 2005, 12:00:33 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [2]

Trackback URL: http://blogs.sun.com/paulhu/entry/dan_brown_angels_and_demons

Comments:

I must say it was rather a quick read. I bought the two books at the same time not realizing they were both in the Langdon series; they just sounded interesting. I actually finished them in one day each. It is nice that while Brown made references to Angels and Demons in Da Vinci code, it really adds nothing to the plot. I had also read Digital Fortress over three years before. I think Angels and Demons was the best which is kind of odd since the Da Vinci code was what I kept hearing about.

Posted by Brant Gurganus on March 31, 2005 at 02:22 AM PST #

I can't believe you actually stuck it out to the end.

Time to dive into Cryptonomicon, I think.

Posted by Geoff Arnold on March 31, 2005 at 11:03 AM PST #