This is not a quote - just an impression. SILLY CIRCULAR NARRATIVE I don?t know if that?s the right term but here is my own perception of a dialogue passage that thematically occurred at least 6 or 7 times in the story.

There is a certain license that is acceptable in this kind of thing ? it was crossed here big time. It creates a real problem when he keeps walking away from death as he does in this one. The latter type is much less invulnerable. The Superman type is expected to do outrageous feats and survive unbelievable things. The Superman Type and The Regular guy who is thrust into adventure reluctantly. There were two things that bothered me about this one that he seems to have grown out of before his next book. I love the way he managed to actually produce a textbook on religious history using a fictional narrative as the vehicle in which to tell it. I liked the basic premise as much as The Da Vinci Code but Dan Brown went a little overboard in this one. Peter's tomb, catacombs, castles, secret passageways, various churches and more. The journey takes you inside the Vatican Library, into St. This is one I actually couldn't stop listening too! The story takes you into the depths of Rome and inside the Vatican, detailing several practices. But after the first several chapters the mystery unfolds and the book plays out like a favorite Robert Ludlum novel. I had to re-listen a few times to deeply understand. The beginning takes you inside CERN and was a bit hard to listen to since they were describing several scientific processes.

However, once I got into the book, I actually felt it was faster-paced and more suspenseful than The DaVinci Code. I also saw a different side of his main character which I didn't really appreciate at first. In the beginning I felt his style of writing was a bit rustier than the smoothness of The DaVinci Code. Although this book is a prequel to The DaVinci Code, also written by Dan Brown, I actually read it afterwards.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown