Angels & demons
12 journalers for this copy...
TBR- Dad gave it to me this weekend
I enjoyed "The Da Vinci Code" and thought I might try this one. This is another story involving symbologist Robert Langdon in which he is asked to solve the murder of a physicist who is discovered with a cryptic symbol seared into his chest. It ends up that an underground organization with a vendetta against the Catholic Church is involved and the story unfolds. I liked "The Di Vinci Code" better, but this was still interesting.
Journal Entry 3 by sophie100 at Mailed to fizzfred in Sacramento, California USA on Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Released on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at Mailed to fizzfred in Sacramento, California USA.
I stayed up almost all night last night finishing The Da Vinci Code, so I was excited to see Angels and Demons in my mailbox today. I can't wait to jump into this book now.
I liked this book, but I can't figure out exactly why. I don't usually read thrillers. This one is a bit violent and very fast paced. You don't have a lot of time to reflect on the different turning points. But, I also read it really fast, couldn't put it down in fact. I enjoy how Dan Brown writes about religion, I love all the twists and turns in the story, but I think I liked his discriptions of all the Roman landmarks the best. I really felt like I was visiting Rome again. I would love to go back and walk the path to the Illuminati's headquarters. ;)
PS To anyone else who has visited Rome: didn't you figure out where the headquarters was located from the first clue? I for one knew right away and kept wondering why they didn't just go check at the.... It could have saved a few lives and a lot of time but I guess it wouldn't make that great of a story. He, he.
PS To anyone else who has visited Rome: didn't you figure out where the headquarters was located from the first clue? I for one knew right away and kept wondering why they didn't just go check at the.... It could have saved a few lives and a lot of time but I guess it wouldn't make that great of a story. He, he.
Journal Entry 6 by fizzfred at Sent Via United States Postal Service in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Released on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 at Postal Release in Sacramento, California USA.
Sent to busybooklover as part of a trade. "tootshelling" is interested in reading it when you are finished.
Sent to busybooklover as part of a trade. "tootshelling" is interested in reading it when you are finished.
Yeah-- little happy dance-- I get to read A&D.. I get to read A&D.... TY! FUN FUN FUN! NOTE: (Tootshelling was sent another copy I got of A&D.)
This is starting out VERY good.. I'm about i/3 way through... Promised book to Sarana... we met on CR's new LIVE CHAT and to celebrate the "unveiling" I offered this as a RABCK.. It will be heading off to the Netherlands when I finish it up (by the end of the month!)--- UPDATE: Book was outstanding.. if you can suspend some amount of disbelief. I thought the ambigrams weer quite clever as were the twists and turns. Did not dissapoint me... now off to a BCer in the Netherlands...
Released on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at Given to another bookcrosser in n/a, n/a Controlled Releases.
Mailing to Sarana (Netherlands) today! Enjoy!!! :D
Mailing to Sarana (Netherlands) today! Enjoy!!! :D
When I checked the mail just now, I had to do a little happy dance. Angels & Demons has arrived safely. Thanks a lot for this lovely RABCK, Busybooklover! It goes to the top of Mount TBR right away!
I finished "Angels & Demons" last friday, reading the last chapters really fast in one go. I was glad to find a few unexpected twists in the end, because throughout the book there had been several occasions where I felt that things were too obvious. Fortunately, in some of those cases I turned out to be wrong... One thing irritated me a bit though: Robert Langdon switched all the time between being amazingly clever and unbelievable dense. Some clues were screaming at me from the pages but took him hours to see, while at other times he made connections that indeed only a very outstanding scholar could think of.
Apart from that, I loved the book, it was very thrilling. Having been to Rome a few times myself I recognised some of the places and artifacts mentioned, which was very nice. I'm definitely revisiting all those places if I ever get there again.
Thanks again for the RABCK, Busybooklover! I'll be sure to share it with lots of others.
Apart from that, I loved the book, it was very thrilling. Having been to Rome a few times myself I recognised some of the places and artifacts mentioned, which was very nice. I'm definitely revisiting all those places if I ever get there again.
Thanks again for the RABCK, Busybooklover! I'll be sure to share it with lots of others.
Angels&Demons will journey on as a bookray.
The list of participants (still open for more):
maupi - Netherlands
wandering - Netherlands
meliluc - France
OlePinto - Spain
Crestfallen - Portugal
Xanocas - Portugal
bookmanu - Portugal
Auglaise - UK <---- on its way to
FieryFairy - UK
Casperette - USA
The list of participants (still open for more):
maupi - Netherlands
wandering - Netherlands
meliluc - France
OlePinto - Spain
Crestfallen - Portugal
Xanocas - Portugal
bookmanu - Portugal
Auglaise - UK <---- on its way to
FieryFairy - UK
Casperette - USA
Ready...Set...Go...! And we're off. The shortness of the line at the post office surely indicates a bright future for this book, ladies and gentlemen. A wonderful swift start which hopefully will be continued in a great journey around the world...
Happy reading everyone!
Happy reading everyone!
Got it! Will read it soon and send it on. Thnx Sarana.
As Sarana pointed out: things are often too obvious in Angels & Demons. I was particularly put off by all the explaining Brown does. My, do we really have to assume that readers know nothing at all? No general knowledge whatsoever? That's depressing. Most irritating quote: "A guy called Galileo". How insulting, to Galileo, the reader, human intelligence. And there's more of that stuff.
The final twist did speed things up, but it was all rather far-fetched.
Langdon does irritate. He is not that clever he is made out to be. Just has quite some factual knowledge, but his creative thinking is rather underdeveloped. All in all, not a raving review on my part, though I have to admit I did read all of it, just too curious whodunit ;-)
I've even started reading The Da Vinci Code now, another ring waiting TBR and actually just the easy reading I need this month (moving in 2 weeks, physically too exhausted to read demanding texts). Slight masochistic streak, I guess, cause reading The Da Vinci Code is equally annoying yet compelling, again this whodunit factor.
I posted Angels & Demons to wandering this morning. Hope she and following readers will enjoy it.
The final twist did speed things up, but it was all rather far-fetched.
Langdon does irritate. He is not that clever he is made out to be. Just has quite some factual knowledge, but his creative thinking is rather underdeveloped. All in all, not a raving review on my part, though I have to admit I did read all of it, just too curious whodunit ;-)
I've even started reading The Da Vinci Code now, another ring waiting TBR and actually just the easy reading I need this month (moving in 2 weeks, physically too exhausted to read demanding texts). Slight masochistic streak, I guess, cause reading The Da Vinci Code is equally annoying yet compelling, again this whodunit factor.
I posted Angels & Demons to wandering this morning. Hope she and following readers will enjoy it.
Got this book in the mail yesterday. Very conveniantly before 'the Da Vinci code', so I can read the books in the right order.
Thanks sophie100 for sharing this book, and Sarana for making it a ray!
Thanks sophie100 for sharing this book, and Sarana for making it a ray!
This is a book that keeps you from sleeping. Like many, I also thought I figured out the part some characters where playing in the story, but I turned out to be wrong about some of them in the end.
Maybe Brown was squandering around too many obvious hints to make his readers figuring out the plot the way he wants them to. But most readers are able to do that without that many clear hints (in the wrong direction, that is). It didn't annoy me, but it is nicer to feel really clever and turn out to be wrong than to pick up the obvious and turn out to be wrong.
I thought it was a good book and I'm happy I have read it. I like the mix of facts and a story being made up around it, although it easily gets to have a 'being lectured' feeling to it...
Maybe Brown was squandering around too many obvious hints to make his readers figuring out the plot the way he wants them to. But most readers are able to do that without that many clear hints (in the wrong direction, that is). It didn't annoy me, but it is nicer to feel really clever and turn out to be wrong than to pick up the obvious and turn out to be wrong.
I thought it was a good book and I'm happy I have read it. I like the mix of facts and a story being made up around it, although it easily gets to have a 'being lectured' feeling to it...
yay, I just got the book in the mail this morning.
Thanks to sarana and wandering.
I'll try to keep it as short a time as possible, but I'm not feeling too well these days, and I forgot the book was coming. At the moment, I can't read (I have eye troubles), but I'm having a scanner this afternoon, and hopefully the problems will be solved soon, and I'll be able to read Angels and Demons and pass it on.
If my problems last too long, I'll pass it on anyway.
Thanks to sarana and wandering.
I'll try to keep it as short a time as possible, but I'm not feeling too well these days, and I forgot the book was coming. At the moment, I can't read (I have eye troubles), but I'm having a scanner this afternoon, and hopefully the problems will be solved soon, and I'll be able to read Angels and Demons and pass it on.
If my problems last too long, I'll pass it on anyway.
I had read the Da Vinci Code before, so I knew what to expect of this book, and in that regard I was not disapointed. An entertaining fiction, mingled with so called "truth", much less intellectually challenging than the Name of the Rose, but the purpose of this book being pure entertainement, it reaches it's goal easily.
I'm sending it to Spain on monday ...
I'm sending it to Spain on monday ...
Found it in the mailbox yesterday. Surprised and wondering why there were two parcels. It seems I got another book in spite of my insisting so much about this book. Sorry about that, and thanks!
I've just finished this other D. Brown's book. The structure repeats from one book to another: short chapters, interrupted simultaneous threads, all to keep you reading.
It's been curious reading it shortly after Ratzinger's popification, and after having read about the papal election procedure. The descriptions of the Vatican places where nobody except the Pope can enter are quite inspired, the plots and subplots seem to never end (when everything seems revealed, there are still new surprises) and even the final teasing made me smile because of its originality (so differently as in El enigma Vivaldi).
It'll part ASAP on its way to Crestfallen.
It's been curious reading it shortly after Ratzinger's popification, and after having read about the papal election procedure. The descriptions of the Vatican places where nobody except the Pope can enter are quite inspired, the plots and subplots seem to never end (when everything seems revealed, there are still new surprises) and even the final teasing made me smile because of its originality (so differently as in El enigma Vivaldi).
It'll part ASAP on its way to Crestfallen.
Sorry for the delay in making this journal entry. I had computer problems for the last few days.
Anyway, the book is here, I'm already reading it, somewhere around the 200 or so pages, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'll let you know more as soon as I finish it.
Thanks !!! :)
Anyway, the book is here, I'm already reading it, somewhere around the 200 or so pages, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'll let you know more as soon as I finish it.
Thanks !!! :)
Encontre el libro delante del escaparate de un comercio, nada más verlo pense en bookcrossing, nunca habia cogido uno, me ha hecho mucha ilusión, espero darle un "buen viaje" al libro y tener una nueva oportunidad de tener otro ejemplar en mis manos. Saludos.
CAUGHT IN SALAMANCA CASTILLA Y LEON ESPAÑA
CAUGHT IN SALAMANCA CASTILLA Y LEON ESPAÑA
Finished reading two days ago.
It was my first contact with Dan Brown, the "in" author of the moment.
I really enjoyed reading this book, especially because of the mixture between reality (science and history) and fiction. It made me search on the internet for some stuff... I'm very curious. So, I learned something.
The story keeps the suspense really till the very end, and that is a plus.
However, and that's not my first time, I think that some part of the last chapter was not needed. I think it kind of ruins the story and makes the book look like some "corny" literature.
All in all, I really loved the book and I'm certainly going to read some more stuff of Dan Brown (Da Vince Code will follow).
Travelling to Bookmanu.
It was my first contact with Dan Brown, the "in" author of the moment.
I really enjoyed reading this book, especially because of the mixture between reality (science and history) and fiction. It made me search on the internet for some stuff... I'm very curious. So, I learned something.
The story keeps the suspense really till the very end, and that is a plus.
However, and that's not my first time, I think that some part of the last chapter was not needed. I think it kind of ruins the story and makes the book look like some "corny" literature.
All in all, I really loved the book and I'm certainly going to read some more stuff of Dan Brown (Da Vince Code will follow).
Travelling to Bookmanu.
OOPS! I received this book from xanocas (who already had my address) in the mail today.
I signed up for this bookring ages ago and then promptly forgot about it :$ In the meantime I got a copy of my own and started a bookray with it
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2618434
Will be mailing this book to Auglaise sometime this week if I can get a PM through...my BC PMs have been very haphazard and unreliable lately :(
I signed up for this bookring ages ago and then promptly forgot about it :$ In the meantime I got a copy of my own and started a bookray with it
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2618434
Will be mailing this book to Auglaise sometime this week if I can get a PM through...my BC PMs have been very haphazard and unreliable lately :(
Mailed to Auglaise today.
Journal Entry 28 by bookmanu from Cascais, Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Was I surprised when I got home today and saw an envelope I posted off to Wales last December lying on the kitchen table!The red 'Royal mail' sticker says the item was 'not called for'.
Admittedly I ended up not PMing Auglaise as I said I would in a previous JE because I realised afterwards writing the JE that I already had her address. Thank heavens the book made it back to me...apologies to all for delaying the bookray.
I'm going to PM Auglaise now...promise! :S
