I've never read the book, but some of Dan Brown's use of poetic license is hilarious. Especially the idea that CERN has an X-33 spaceplane -- an aircraft that was never really built. Even funnier if you've ever been to CERN or Fermilab is the idea that particle physicists walk around in lab coats.
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Reading Angels and Demons was only entertaining to me because I was reading it while I was studying abroad in Rome. That and I needed a change of pace from sociological books.
IMO, The Historian is much better and more developed than any of Dan Brown's books.
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I've read Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and enjoyed them, but I refuse to read any of his other books because I know they'll follow his formula. That would just annoy me and make me start hating books I currently like, so I just avoid the issue.
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I found it ridiculous the the riddles were so darn easy. And the super code-cracking hero-protagonists spend so much time scratching their heads over them.
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The best line in the book is when one of CERN's supposed genius-scientists comments "oxygen is an oxidant." No, you think?
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Indoor sky diving (like Brown says they have at CERN) actually does exist, I hope I can try it someday -- link to a San Diego place that does it.
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What I find sad is the idea that there are adults who read at the level to which Dan Brown writes.
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I tried to read Angels and Demons, I couldn't make it through the first chapter. It was horrible.
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I have given up any pretense of Dan Brown and now reading Foucoult's Pendulum, on recommendation of a Hatracker. Apparently, same genre, orders of magnitude better written.
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