As soon as I finished Angels & Demons, I started feeling guilty--and a bit two-faced. You see, I've been telling anyone who would listen (my poor husband, mainly), about Dan Brown's atrocious writing style. Nearly every page was riddled with exaggerated descriptions, cartoon-like characterizations...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51032564">more...</a> (Posted on 8/19/11)

Wow. <br/><br/>Before I begin my review, I want to preface it by saying a few things. <br/><br/>I know a lot of people think Dan Brown is a crappy writer who writes crappy books about crappy stories with crappy characters and crappy, unbelievable plots. <br/><br/>I know a lot of people think Dan Bro...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29112595">more...</a> (Posted on 8/2/11)

I liked this book. In as much as a person can like, say, cotton candy. It tastes good at first, but after a bit the taste starts to lose some of its sugary goodness and just becomes a sticky mess that you hope doesn't get in your hair or on your shirt.
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<br/>The premise was interesting: I l...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75305007">more...</a> (Posted on 3/9/11)

I read this after the drivel that is called &quot;Da Vinci Code.&quot; I decided to give the author another chance, and take on something that maybe wasn't so formulaic.
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<br/>No dice. I am convinced that Dan Brown does absolutely no research into the subjects he writes about. Or if he does, h...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4561216">more...</a> (Posted on 12/17/09)

In the first, I don't know, 30 pages or so a character is &quot;overwhelmed&quot; by the smell of frozen urine. Frozen things don't smell, let alone overwhelmingly. Shortly thereafter an expert in religion (or whatever he is, I've tried to block it out) is shocked to see a study containing both sc...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2315814">more...</a> (Posted on 12/17/09)

Granted, my family owns this both in print and as an audio book- so I can't deny the entertainment I gather from this sad excuse for a detective novel on a regular basis- but I still refuse to call it a <em>good</em> book in any respectable sense of the word.
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<br/>Not unlike <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Da Vinci Code" title=" The Da Vinci Code"> The Da Vinci Code</a>, <strong>Angels ...</strong>
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1217710">more...</a> (Posted on 12/16/09)

Religion always was, is, has been, and always will be a very sensitive subject for me. However this book was a &quot;battle&quot; of religion and science. The storyline was engaging. I have to admit that the beginning was a bit slow, but as the book progressed, the pace really picked up to a point I...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/864459">more...</a> (Posted on 12/16/09)

So I honestly want to give the book three stars. What I enjoy about Brown is how he can write almost 600 pages of a book and I get almost to the end and realize that it has taken place all in the space of one day. As a writer, I would love to be able to do that. The weaving of religious and scientif...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26262643">more...</a> (Posted on 10/13/09)

This was Brown's book before the infamous &quot;The Da Vinci Code.&quot; In many ways, this book was like a rough draft for &quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot;, same character Langdon, same other characters, same basic start, same concepts, same bad research passed off as fact, same trick of having nearly...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8072481">more...</a> (Posted on 6/9/09)

Angels and Demons is one of the most insidiously-constructed page turners I’ve ever read and unlike other such efforts (Richard Laymon’s IN THE DARK) I actually raced to the end of it rather than throwing the thing half-finished against the wardrobe in rage. Think of Hercules Poirrot. Think of Inspe...
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15872952">more...</a> (Posted on 2/25/08)