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Angels and Demons

By Dan Brown

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| Paperback | 9780552150736

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all.

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summContinue


From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all.

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

Critics have praised the exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit found in Brown's remarkable thrillers featuring Robert Langdon. An explosive international suspense, Angels & Demons marks this hero's first adventure as it careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.

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  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

    Leonardo Vetra had a mission - to reconcile the differences between science and religion. A physicist at Switzerland’s renowned Consiel Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), Vetra, a Catholic priest, has discovered how to produce antimatter. B ... (read full critics)

    themysteryreader published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • 7 people find this helpful

    How comes a book like this has all the quoting in italian wrong? not enough money for a professional translator?
    I used to live close to the Vatican, everybody in Rome knows about passetto and many other "surprises" Dan Brown is trying to sell...american friends, visit the city and buy a good ... (continue)

    How comes a book like this has all the quoting in italian wrong? not enough money for a professional translator?
    I used to live close to the Vatican, everybody in Rome knows about passetto and many other "surprises" Dan Brown is trying to sell...american friends, visit the city and buy a good giude, but please forget about this book!

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    Littlelakes said on Jun 21, 2009 about the Others edition | 3 feedbacks

  • 3 people find this helpful

    Fun for fun

    If you love Dan Brown, this book is a good one.
    Otherwise, at the end, all remaining things are the unlikely story and the dull prose style.

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    Matteo De Simone said on Feb 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • La storia è sicuramente intrigante e d'intrattenimento, ma è l'unico aspetto positivo che posso dare a questo libro.
    Invece, su molti altri fronti non mi è affatto piaciuto; in ordine sparso di importanza:

    1 - Il finale in stile telenovela e fantascienza di serie zeta è a dir poco osceno.

    2 - Dan ... (continue)

    La storia è sicuramente intrigante e d'intrattenimento, ma è l'unico aspetto positivo che posso dare a questo libro.
    Invece, su molti altri fronti non mi è affatto piaciuto; in ordine sparso di importanza:

    1 - Il finale in stile telenovela e fantascienza di serie zeta è a dir poco osceno.

    2 - Dan Brown elenca tutta una serie di persone a cui si è rivolto per consulenza - fra cui un italiano - e poi ci si ritrova nel testo delle frasi in italiano che sono palesemente frasi in inglese buttate nel peggior traduttore automatico in circolazione (ho letto l'edizione in inglese). Una cosa che a mio parere è sciatteria gratuita, anche considerato che - trattandosi di poche frasi - fare una traduzione appropriata costa veramente poca fatica.

    3 - Gli aspetti scientifici sono delle gran cavolate: un dispositivo portatile che mantenga l'ultra-alto-vuoto, e senza pompa, non si è mai visto (e di queste cose ne so perchè ci ho lavorato).

    4 - Dopo la premessa scientifica, per tutta la lettura del libro ho avuto il gran dubbio se i riferimenti storico-artistici fossero veri o inventati (ma credo che ci siano fior fiore di libri sull'argomento): non essendo in grado di valutare se fossero veri, ciò mi ha un po' guastato la lettura, perchè, pur non disdegnando i romanzi di invenzione e fantasia, non sopporto quando si dà una veste di verosimiglianza con riferimenti circostanziati ad una storia e poi invece è tutto inventato (lo so, sono una lettrice difficile).

    Peccato, perchè l'idea della storia non è affatto male.

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    Donnamarino said on May 18, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • fantastic book. even more fascinating than the da vinci code.
    descent paced. enough amount of detailing. and breath stopping. a lot hard to put down midway.

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    Akashmanvar said on Apr 14, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    It has been a long time since I read the Da vinci Code.
    I usually make some time passing between the reading of thwo best sellers of the same author in order to not get my judgement being influenced by the former book.
    In this case, this was useless.
    I mean, the trademark that made the Da vinci code ... (continue)

    It has been a long time since I read the Da vinci Code.
    I usually make some time passing between the reading of thwo best sellers of the same author in order to not get my judgement being influenced by the former book.
    In this case, this was useless.
    I mean, the trademark that made the Da vinci code so stirring was its allegedly continous connection with the storic reality that made you think it was something that could perfectly happen.
    In Angel and Demons, this feature seems to be quite neglected: an antimatter bomb under the Vatican? Come on!
    Beside this, all the story, all the dialogues, all the scenaries, look far more a plot for an american movie than a book.
    Nice thriller, though.

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    Gatto Nero said on Apr 7, 2012 | Add your feedback

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