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    Angels & Demons: A Novel
    Angels & Demons: A Novel
    Angels & Demons: A Novel
    Audiobook18 hours

    Angels & Demons: A Novel

    Written by Dan Brown

    Narrated by Richard Poe

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    Experience the explosive, “intriguing, imaginative, and very suspenseful” (Dale Brown, New York Times bestselling author) classic thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno that follows Robert Langdon on a white-knuckled race against time to uncover the darkest secrets of Rome.

    An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target.

    When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol, he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient and powerful secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati—which has its sights on its longtime enemy: the Catholic Church.

    Desperate to save the Vatican, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together, they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth—the long-forgotten Illuminati lair which houses the only hope for the salvation of the Catholic Church.

    “A breathless, real-time adventure” (San Francisco Chronicle), Angels & Demons is an unputdownable and whip-smart thriller that careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2003
    ISBN9780743539760
    Angels & Demons: A Novel
    Author

    Dan Brown

    Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, which has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling novels of all time. Named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine, he has appeared in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels are published in 51 languages around the world. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. He lives in New England with his wife.

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    • 4/5
      Intresting concept

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Special Note: NOT Recommended for Devout Catholics

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Dan Brown has become on of the most well known authors in the world. His saga that follows the adventures of Robert Langdon has become on the the largest and best selling series ever. Angles and Demons is the first book of the series and from the beginning, I could see that this book already showed signs of promise and brilliance.Angles and Demons is the beginning of the story of Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology. Following a disturbing call early in the morning, Langdon finds himself running across Rome, from the Pantheon to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The story is filled with exciting twist and turns. While reading the book, there were many small details that are mentioned that foreshadow forthcoming events in the story. Also, Brown inserts small snippets of conversation or short sentences that pulled me into thinking one thing and then, after reading a little bit farther, is proved completely wrong.Even after reading this book a few times before, I still enjoy going back and reading it. The thrills and plot twists are somewhat diminished, but for the most part, they still hold some of the original moments of surprise. Dan Brown is an author that has cemented himself in my reading world. His books have become some of my favorites and some touch on very shrouded subjects. This book deals greatly with very detailed descriptions of places and documents and I commend him for his work researching the topics he covered. Angles and Demons is an absolutely wonderful book.

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    • 3/5
      Me gusta más el código, está se siente más predecible. Pero si es mejor que la película!
    • 5/5
      Awesome book, even a little better than Davinci code imo. Just non-stop action, great plot twists with tons of intriguing facts surrounding Rome. Not much else i can say other than it was a great read.
    • 1/5
      I thought it was a horrible book.The conclusion was one of the worse pieces of literary cowardice I've ever read. Granted I'm Catholic, and I'm not at all supportive of negative protrayals of the church for fantasy...but I think Brown actually tied up the story way to neatly in the end for me to respect him as a writer.I wouldn't even waste my time with the Da Vinci Code.
    • 1/5
      Still wondering why I finished this one after putting it down. Boring, frustrating and formulaic.
    • 5/5
      Really liked this one. This was my first Dan Brown book, then Da Vinci Code, Deception Point and Digital Fortress so maybe that's why I liked this one slightly better than the rest, but all of the Dan Brown book's I've read were great. Gripping pace, great action and suspense interwoven with interesting science and history.
    • 4/5
      A bit disappointed. I liked the DaVinci Code, but at times, this was like re-reading the same book.
    • 2/5
      Wasn't really worth the time for those 20 pages that had interesting info.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyed it better in most respects than Davinci Code.
    • 4/5
      Angels and Demons is not your classic adventure novel. This novel isn?t a tale of Superman, Batman, or even Wonder Women. Robert Langdon is not your everyday hero. He is in fact a hero, but he bends the definition of a hero. Robert Langdon is the type of man who uses his wits and knowledge of symbology to save the biggest religion in history: the Catholic Church. No, Mr. Langdon cannot fly, nor does he have the power of great strength, but he is a hero of no other, who attempts to do the impossible. Robert Langdon is a professor of symbology at Harvard University. During the oddest hour of the night, Robert receives a call from a man known as Max Kholer, the director of CERN, an enormous scientific company, who have done the impossible by creating antimatter. This antimatter has been stolen from CERN and has been in hidden in Vatican City. The antimatter only has until midnight, when it shall explode and destroy all of Vatican City, and much of Rome. Robert Langdon has been contacted, due to the homicide of Leonardo Vetra, the creator of the antimatter. Normally, the police and investigators would be contacted, but something extremely unusual had happened to Leonardo Vetra?s body. Leonardo Vetra?s shirt was found unbuttoned, revealing the word Illuminati being branded into his chest. The Illuminati were an ancient brotherhood which had gone incognito over four hundred years ago. This is where Robert Langdon comes into play. Robert Langdon knows absolutely everything about the Illuminati. So, he is called to embark on a mission through Vatican City, alongside of Vittoria Vetra, the daughter of Leonardo Vetra and the co creator of the antimatter, in search of the killer and the stolen antimatter, before they are too late. This adventure novel had me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire novel. Every sentence that Dan Brown had written had seemed to drag me in deeper into the book. It had sucked me in like a black hole, which I couldn?t escape from. This novel had easily been the best novel I had ever read. Even though Angels and Demons had some incredibly great assets, there were also some minor flaws. For example, the action sequences were extremely slow, to a point where I was about to skip over five pages to get to the climax of the sequence. Dan Brown took too long to get to the climax of the sequence, leaving the introduction to the sequence incredibly dry, boring, and long. I was a little disappointed by the drag in these action sequences, leaving my reader experience at a lower level than it had previously been at. Minus the slow action sequences and the minor flaws, Angels and Demons is an incredible novel. It is not an easy read, but it is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat, begging for more after every sentence. Dan Brown had done a phenomenal job in creating this book, bringing much joy to all of his readers.
    • 4/5
      Another page turner from Dan Brown.Robert Langdon is called on again to solve a mystery of symbology, racing to save Vatican City.It?s a very similar style to The Da Vinci Code, but still enjoyable - though I found the ending rather confusing.
    • 4/5
      The first of the Robert Langdon books, this brilliant symbologist is caught up in a violent murder at Cern, the famous Swiss physics research facility. Robert follows the clues to Vatican City to uncover a plot by the Illuminati to end blind Christian faith and replace it with scientific enlightenment. Like Dan Brown's other books this has a fast pace and is plot driven. This is a good read for those who liked "The Da Vinci Code."
    • 2/5
      Passed the time. Okay to read through once, but falls apart on futher consideration
    • 5/5
      Probably the most entertaining book I have ever read. It is fictional and pretty unrealistic but Dan Brown knows how to write an interesting novel. It deals with religious issues based around catholicism and where the church stands on the issue of science and new discoveries. The novel follows the Harvard professor Robert Langdon and his adventures in trying to prevent corruption and destruction. I would say that it edges out The Da Vinci Code and is a bit more entertaining. It is a very hard book to put down.
    • 1/5
      I couldn't even finish this book. Maybe the plot would have picked up enough to keep me going, but I found the main characters so unbelievably stupid that I couldn't go along with it.This may seem picky and you have to have read it to know what I'm talking about, but supposedly there is a super-secure place that no one can enter without retinal scanning. These scientists never consider that there are ways to force someone to scan his retina (or to steal the retina and scan it without him). And there is a second, super-super-secure room that no one could ever, ever get into. And how is it guarded? Well, by the very same retinal scan! If you can get in the first room, you can probably get into the second room! Yet all these brainiacs are dumbfounded that their security is breached!Then we have to sit through endless paragraphs during which people, some raised as Catholics, struggle to figure out why a rabid anti-Catholic group would want to target Rome! I'm not kidding! It doesn't immediately become obvious that it's because that's where the Pope is????I could go on and on. Just too much for me to swallow.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite books and my favorite Dan Brown book. I love the character of Robert Langdon. While I read the DaVinci code first, then this one I decided that this one was the best of the two. I like how Brown brings in "information" about the vatican, the pope and his charlamengo and how a pope gets elected. I also really liked the "history" about the illuminati and how the Langdon figures out the Illuminati trail. I am a catholic but I absolutely love books on catholic conspiracies and such and these type of books are good to read and don't change my beliefs in anyway. I love the ending where the shit hits the fan so to speak when the Langdon calls the charlamengo out on what he did.

      Great Book and Great Author
    • 5/5
      The best novel by dan brown, better than "The Da vinci code", Dan Brown exelled at his peak..... Really thundering story plot.. Leonardo Vetra, a brilliant scientist trying to bridge science with religion, is murdered in his pent house. The murder is shocking and the motive is soon discovered..... Even the killer?s identity is known but the group he belongs to has been thought of as dead. Leonardo Vetra?s chest has been branded with the symetrical ambigram "Illuminati". The Illuminati were a satanic cult founded by galileo in the 1630s to fight the Church but have been thought as deceased by most for the last 50 years. The ambigram shocks everyone and so Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon is called to do further study while Vittoria Vetra , Leonardo Vetra?s adopted scientist-daughter also comes in. The Vetras were working on a highly secretive project where they were breaking scientific rules by creating matter from nothing . With the help of this, Leonardo Vetra planned to prove that both Genesis and the Big Bang Theory were right. But before he could do so he was murdered and his created explosive, antimatter, was stolen from his lab. Antimatter is shown to be 10 times more explosive than a nuclear warhead and it is automatically programmed to explode in 24 hours. Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra go on a wild-goose chase across the Vatican City to find Leonardo?s killer and also to help find the antimatter. Oh, by the way, the life of four cardinals (high priests) also hang in the balance.........
    • 4/5
      so much better than the davinci code!!
    • 3/5
      Entertaining, but not great.
    • 5/5
      The plot twists will keep your head spinning all the way to the end.
    • 3/5
      Good fun reading. Kept me up a couple of nights. Very similar to the DaVincy Code, but kind of oulandish at the end.
    • 4/5
      There was much more of a plot in this book than in The Da Vinci Code. Therefore, even if you did not entirely enjoy The Da Vinci Code, I would still recommend this book. Unlike The Da Vinci Code, it is more focused on plot than facts and trivia. It has a very good mystery and suspense plot that keeps you guessing until the very end. I enjoyed reading it and although not all of the information is correct, some of it is interesting.
    • 5/5
      About the Narrator. It found the narration pretty good, there were a few voice tweaks but overall his narration made it more immersive.
      It was brilliant read. Hell of a read . Fast paced, suspenful, it was intense. Definitely worth reading.
    • 5/5
      Everything it had twists and turns on everywhere it was great!
    • 5/5
      Interesting book, made me laugh on more than one occasion.
    • 4/5
      Ending was a bit stupid. The writing was not as good as Da Vinci Code. But, definitely a worthwhile read.
    • 3/5
      This book is amazing, I'm not sure that there isn't a establishment that Dan Brown doesn't have a pop at . One of my mates reckons that he must have had a really bad experience at the hands of the Catholic church, but I found this book to be fairly sympathetic to the CC, and quite disparaging about a range of other institutions. Once again a lot the "facts" are extremely dubious , including the scientific ones. All this aside, a romping good yarn ,that keeps you turning the pages and doesn't take too long to read.
    • 4/5
      Better than DaVinci!