Vox Hunt: Worth A Thousand Words (And some more words on Angels & Demons)
Show us a picture that's worth a thousand words.
Submitted by sami711.
Here's to hoping I haven't posted this before.
I (finally) finished Angels & Demons yesterday (There's nothing too revealing up ahead, but I still wouldn't read this section unless you've already read the book or don't give a shit about spoilers)! And let me tell you-- the last hundred and fifty pages or so kept me clinging to my pillow.
I loved that Dan Brown wasn't afraid to spring multiple twists at the reader, and I was glad that it kept me amused, not confused. This book was, by far, better than both The Da Vinci code (which I read right before the film version came out) and Digital Fortress (which I read in 2004, I think). I liked that the character development was more involved than The Da Vinci Code's, and that the whole book was more fleshed out than Digital Fortress. A bit of praise on the back of the book calls it a great "real-time" adventure, an aspect of the book I hadn't even considered until I read the blurb (the time frame, I meant, not the fact that it's an adventure). The pacing of the book works well for it's 24-hour time frame. I can't recall any specific moment when I was bored or wanted to read something else. The last chapter with Robert and Vittoria was a bit lacking, to be honest. Their banter was cute, but really sort out of the tone of the whole book; it threw me a little off course.
In any case, I really enjoyed reading it. I think it fit the category of what I was looking for perfectly-- a fast-paced adventure novel with a brain.
Charline
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And I didn't like the Da Vinci code movie too much either-- which was especially awful because Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou are two of my favorite actors.