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I really liked this book and the movie I thought was very close to the book. I liked that we were not sure how the main characters were going to react to each clue that was given. Angels and Demons I had a hard time getting into. I think I finished it but was so not interested, I couldn't begin to tell you the outcome.
Full of plot-disconnects, spurious research, and bad travelogue writing. Small vocabulary, exposition, and characters which break their own personality types from page to page. This book is sold in airports, which should tell you everything you need to know. Brown achieves mass appeal through his bland, universally generic story, which has sprinklings of puzzles and references to urban legends. None of this contains any literary merit, but it does help the typical reading demographic to feel they've 'cracked the code' while reading it, thus making it enjoyable.
Beneath the surface plot there is nothing. Character development is nonexistent, unless you count the numerous character personality inconsistencies. Probably one of the worst books I've ever read, in both plausibility of story and in presentation. To say nothing of literary value, which should be held above both - doesn't exist here.
I read this book as escape literature, and did not expect literary value. I was right. The plot was original, the characters not too superficial and the writing fast paced. I enjoyed it, but do not consider it ¨a good book¨.
In the first place, Leonardo Da Vinci did not have a last name. He was illegitimate. His name just meant Leonardo of Vinci (a small Italian town) And all early religious artists depicted St. John as beardless and young. It is part of his iconography.
for this to be fiction the church sure put a lot of PR into as being nothing of truth....which leaves me to believe that i would call it fiction on the cusp
Fiction? It is a fictitious story with lots of history.
Fictitious story with a lot of distorted historical facts.
I don't care about the historical inaccuracies of the book. If you want to enjoy the book, just board on the train and enjoy the ride. If historical records bother you so much, then I will advise you to read someone else.
I was all a mysery and I had to read chapter to chapter so as to know what happenens next but what confuses me is that are there people who still believe in that religion?
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I really liked this book and the movie I thought was very close to the book. I liked that we were not sure how the main characters were going to react to each clue that was given. Angels and Demons I had a hard time getting into. I think I finished it but was so not interested, I couldn't begin to tell you the outcome.
Full of plot-disconnects, spurious research, and bad travelogue writing. Small vocabulary, exposition, and characters which break their own personality types from page to page. This book is sold in airports, which should tell you everything you need to know. Brown achieves mass appeal through his bland, universally generic story, which has sprinklings of puzzles and references to urban legends. None of this contains any literary merit, but it does help the typical reading demographic to feel they've 'cracked the code' while reading it, thus making it enjoyable. Beneath the surface plot there is nothing. Character development is nonexistent, unless you count the numerous character personality inconsistencies. Probably one of the worst books I've ever read, in both plausibility of story and in presentation. To say nothing of literary value, which should be held above both - doesn't exist here.
I read this book as escape literature, and did not expect literary value. I was right. The plot was original, the characters not too superficial and the writing fast paced. I enjoyed it, but do not consider it ¨a good book¨.
In the first place, Leonardo Da Vinci did not have a last name. He was illegitimate. His name just meant Leonardo of Vinci (a small Italian town) And all early religious artists depicted St. John as beardless and young. It is part of his iconography.
for this to be fiction the church sure put a lot of PR into as being nothing of truth....which leaves me to believe that i would call it fiction on the cusp
Fiction? It is a fictitious story with lots of history.
Fictitious story with a lot of distorted historical facts.
I don't care about the historical inaccuracies of the book. If you want to enjoy the book, just board on the train and enjoy the ride. If historical records bother you so much, then I will advise you to read someone else.
I was all a mysery and I had to read chapter to chapter so as to know what happenens next but what confuses me is that are there people who still believe in that religion?
