Angels and Demons

These days, I am hardly getting any time to sit down and write something. In the past two weeks, I was completely spending my free time in developing the Timelinr application. Apart from working on Timelinr, Dan Brown’s ‘Angels & Demons’ ate my rest of the time (other than the office time, obviously!). Having a lot of topics to blog about (including the making of Timelinr, CodeIgniter Learning series, PHP & Ajax and few more!), I hope I’ll be able to spend some time in the coming days.

Angels & Demons – the book of secrets

First I’ll start with my thoughts on Dan Drown’s book of Angels & Demons. In the last few days, this book was following me where ever I go, like a Hutch dog! And, every chapter in this book were so interesting that I was unable to keep the book down.

Dan Brown’s works had already impressed me in his best seller ‘Davinci Code’. But, as person of having less interest in English novels, after completing ‘Davinci Code’, I didn’t explore the other books written by Dan. But, in one of my internal blog, few friends suggested me that ‘Angels & Demons’ is worth a read and I decided to give it a shot. The book proved that my decision wasn’t wrong.

On the same story line of ‘Davinci Code’, Angels also had the Christianity, Churches, Art and Symbology. What more, the same Robert Langdon is the hero in Angels too (because, Angels is a prequel to Davinci Code).

Robert was a Symbology professor in Harvard University. One fine morning, Robert gets a call from an unknown person, asking
Robert’s help in solving a murder case. The reason, why a Symbology professor was called instead of cops, was a weired symbol
etched on the dead body’s chest. Langdon identifies that the Symbol belongs to the Illuminatti, a secret society. From then, Robert start his journey to uncover the truth behind this murder (and the more that were followed!).

What I liked in Angels & Demons

The Dan Drown style of narrating a story is repeated in this book also. It was a very good read with so much things to know about that I never knew before, like Ambigrams, detailed description about Vatican & Rome (if at all I travel to Rome, I may not need a city map! ), Conclave and others. Even, at some point, I wished that Dan Brown should write a book about Hindu Gods, unearthing the hidden truths, like how he is doing it now.

Though the book was interesting, I felt something is missing in this book, compared with ‘Davinci Code’. May be, it’s because of the less number of puzzles, or in most part, Langdon was helped by others to solve the puzzles or the lack of interesting unknowns like in Davinci Code’s Monalisa and Last supper paintings (May be because, I’d read ‘Davinci Code’ before this one, so I like the DC than the AD! ). But somehow, the book’s narration style, kept me reading this book.

Anyway, it was a good time-pass with this book. Hope I find the same in ‘Digital Fortress’.