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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Da Vinci Code vs. Angels & Demons

Priory of Sion
The book I am currently reading is called Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. This book is a thrilling sequel to the first book of the series called The Da Vinci Code. In the first book, the author tells a story of the main character Robert Langdon investigating the brutal murder of the Louvre's currator. In Angels & Demons, Robert runs into another problem. He is faced with the death of a famous scientist who was killed then robbed of his new invention of anti-matter. This anti-matter has the potential to power New York for 3 days, but also to destroy an entire city.

As a reader of the series, the books present a thrilling story with lots of history lingering in the mysterious text. Though both stories are appealing to me, I find that The Da Vinci Code is far better than Angels & Demons.

The Da Vinci Code has facts about Mary Magdalene, the Knights Templar, and Priory of Sion. This historical backround really pulls the story forward and makes for a more interesting and mysterious plot. I liked this book a lot more because of it's dark secrets and action packed story.

So far in Angels & Demons, the plot is somewhat boring. The story tells of an Illuminati terrorist that got a hold of antimatter and is planning of bombing Vatican City. As well as bombing the city, he is killing the 4 most important Cardinals every hour till the bomb explodes at 12 AM. Although the book does describe some facts about Galileo and the Illuminati, there are far less interesting and spooky facts in the text. Also, there is less action as the characters try to stop the bomb from exploding. Personally, this book is not as great as the first book. I do predict that the plot will pick up and more action will occure in the next hundred pages or so.

If you have read these two books, which book do you think was more intersting?
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4 comments:

  1. Amanda GMarch 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM

    Sounds like a really good book, Stuart Glynn Anderson Sones! I hope this book gets more interesting for you because I would love to hear more about it! I like that the history in the book is what really interests you! Great job!

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  2. Cassia BuschMarch 15, 2014 at 2:26 PM

    This is a really good post. I like how you compare the plots of the two books in the series along with adding a prediction to the blog. Great job!

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  3. UnknownMarch 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM

    Stuart, I like how you ended your blog post with a question to get the audience engaged!

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  4. Olivia HMarch 23, 2014 at 6:00 PM

    This is a very nice post. I have read both of these books and you pose an interesting question. I personally liked the action in both, but I think that I liked Angels and Demons slightly more so because I didn't know what was going to happen. I had already heard of the movie "The Da Vinci Code" and so I already had a rudimentary idea of the book's plot line. If you haven't already seen that movie, I recommend it, as I felt it followed Brown's vision fairly well.

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