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Angels & Demons
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Exactly what I was thinking when I read them - got through Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point on holiday last year. They're great "sitting in the sun with a beer and yer feet up" sort of reading. Deception Point was probably my least favourite but the others were very addictive stuff.Sequoia said:Exactly. You finish and end up half-thinking "It's all just fiction ................. isn't it?"
You know it is just fiction, but there's that nagging "What if ...." hovering in the back of your mind.
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Isn't A&D the one with nerve gas grenades and laser targetted rifles?Feek said:
Beansprout said:
What he said. The fiction mixes with fact and attempts to pass off fiction as fact without you noticing. Don't believe anything you read in the books as fact unless proven otherwise.
I read the Da Vinci Code long before all of the hype. I did enjoy it, but I hate the idea of having reading it because it's 'popular' *shrugs*
I've read Deception Point too, I did enjoy that. I liked the whole arctic thing and the isolation
*SPOILER!*
What I enjoyed the most about the book [Da Vinci's Code] was the way it attacked religion and the way he twisted the search for the holy grail into this. I quite liked the ending too to do with a certain resting place of a certain artifact.
*END OF SPOILER!*
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not read the da vinci, but A+D was pretty good, until the end, which was weak.
i also like the attack on religion, as the religious zealots are accountabe for so many wrong doings in history and these need to be brought to the attention of the public.
i like the way the religious have called for vbans on the da vinci code film, and prayed for "fiction" stickers etc to label it everywhere.
i might campaign for "fictious" stickers to be stamped onto every copy of the bible also, as they have even less proof that the events actually did occur.
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i also like the attack on religion, as the religious zealots are accountabe for so many wrong doings in history and these need to be brought to the attention of the public.
i like the way the religious have called for vbans on the da vinci code film, and prayed for "fiction" stickers etc to label it everywhere.
i might campaign for "fictious" stickers to be stamped onto every copy of the bible also, as they have even less proof that the events actually did occur.
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Digital Fortress was rubbish. 
Liked the other three, though Deception Point was perhaps a little too sci-fi. Good though, and I agree that A&D was probably the best of the lot. Love the ambigrams things too, I find them really interesting. Here's a cool one I found (perhaps not technically an ambigram, don't they have to read the same word both ways round?):
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That's not my arm btw. Though it is a really cool tattoo.
Liked the other three, though Deception Point was perhaps a little too sci-fi. Good though, and I agree that A&D was probably the best of the lot. Love the ambigrams things too, I find them really interesting. Here's a cool one I found (perhaps not technically an ambigram, don't they have to read the same word both ways round?):
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That's not my arm btw. Though it is a really cool tattoo.
Soldato
tTz said:Digital Fortress was rubbish.
Here's a cool one I found (perhaps not technically an ambigram, don't they have to read the same word both ways round?):
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That's not my arm btw. Though it is a really cool tattoo.
That is soooo cool
isn't it a palindrome that's the same backwards as forwards?
Man of Honour
In spelling yes, but not in appearancekitten_caboodle said:
Soldato
Just to let you know, there's a show on five at 9PM tonight titled "Angels & Demons: The True Story". Seems to be a bit of a Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code marathon tonight.
The Magical TV Guide said:
Jokester said:
Definitely. A&D I found an excellent thriller, it was a much more captivating story for me than TDC as searching for the grail doesn't really fill me with interest. The action just seems a bit better and apart from a somewhat OTT fantasy ending I enjoyed it from start to finish.
Digital Fortress is done on a somewhat smaller scale. I think Brown arguably had a lot less confidence at the time he wrote that book and it lacks the panache of his later works. While the premise and plot development is perfectly reasonable, the action scenes feel somewhat contrived, it's a long way from Clancy-class.
The one thing all 3 of his books that I have read have in common is a 'hidden enemy', a few red herrings thrown in before some twist to suprise you with a traitor or unexpected baddie.
Associate
Read Angels & Demons prior to visiting Rome in March, thought it was an excellent story, superior to the Da Vinci code IMO
Also read The Traveller when I was out there, the author is someone called John Twelve Hawkes (I think), his style of writing is very similar to Dan Brown - do you think Hawkes is Dan Brown's alter ego?
Also read The Traveller when I was out there, the author is someone called John Twelve Hawkes (I think), his style of writing is very similar to Dan Brown - do you think Hawkes is Dan Brown's alter ego?
Soldato
Once you've read one of his books, you've pretty much read them all. Not detracting from the fact that they are written well, and in isolation are very good reads, just that he has tweaked a basic storyline and released several times.
Man of Honour
PinkPig said:
Are you The Pope ?