Angels & Demons/The Da Vinci Code

[slayer]

I'm really surprised that there isn't a thread on the Da Vinci Code or Angels & Demons. Well, discuss here. The movie comes out on May 19th, I recommend reading the book before watching the movie of course :) I read Angels & Deomons and am now reading the Da Vinci Code, so far I am really into it and should be finished by the end of the day.

**doesn't tom hanks' hair look dreadful!!!!**

[k18]

I read The Da Vinci Code weeks back and now in the middle of Angels and Demons. I stopped in the middle due to final exams. The Da Vinci Code is an awesome book and I was totally hooked on it while I was reading. I stayed up till 2 am reading the final 30 or 35 chapters. Man, was I exhausted the next day! lol

[slayer]

After I finished I still feel that Angels & Demons was better. Idk if it was b/c I went through it way faster or what but they should have made a movie out of A&D first.

[Welsh Dragon]

Angels and Demons rocked. da Vinci code seemed to be plot twists for plot twists sake, as if he was trying to write a blockbuster movie. Plus then there's how much he did allegedly rip-off "The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail" - I'm halfway through that book and the similarities are uncanny. da Vinci code character names, background etc. etc. are all found in it, and the books 20 years older than da Vinci Code!

Oh, and I just wish some more Roman Catholics like me would bother to look at other points of view. The ideas are wrong, doesn't mean you can't be entertained by them!

[slayer]

Well Brown doesn't deny using "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". He specifically references to it in his book. He didn't rip them off IMO.

[Welsh Dragon]

Originally posted by slayer
Well Brown doesn't deny using "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". He specifically references to it in his book. He didn't rip them off IMO.

Have you read Holy Blood though? Using the theory from the book isn't a problem, it's the way he appears to have got character names etc. that I'm really on about.

[slayer]

Nope, but maybe I'll read it. I'm not really into the religion stuff, but it sounds interesting enough. But in a Newsweek or Time article (I'm not sure), Brown said that he purposely made those character names (i.e. Teabing) from the book. He doesn't deny anything.

BTW, anyone watch the movie yet?
I saw it and I think if you haven't read the book you could get lost easily. And like most movies they skip a bunch of stuff. It was okay. :\

[Welsh Dragon]

Seen it, everything you said Slayer is precisely how I felt.

And Hanks will NEVER be Robert Langdon. Wrong wrong wrong.

[slayer]

Definitely. Hanks didn't do the job for me.

[aqua]

Angels and Demons was so much better than The Da Vinci Code.

[Rayje]

I read both and prefered Angels and Demons as well. Don't waste your time on his other book "Digital Fortress." Its several hours of my life that I'll never get back.

[Manuela]

I'll take your advice! I wasn't sure about read it or not because it doesn't seem as involving and exciting as Angels and Demons or The da Vinci Code...

Anyway I prefer Angels and Demons...not only because it's set in Rome but because it's exciting all the time while The Da Vinci Code has some boring parts!!!!

[Happy Random]

I actually liked the Da Vinci code better than Angels and Demons although I can't really say why. I haven't seen the movie but my parents have. They have both read the book and said it was way better than the movie.

[TMLS]

Digital Fortress was a fine, cerebral thriller - even if it does suffer from the typical Dan Brown signposted-a-lightyear-off twist.

And the other one of his books, whose name escapes me but it's the one in the artic, was alright too.

[SenWinchesterKent]

I loved 'The Da Vinci Code', both book and film. Great adaptation, but yeah--I guess Hanks' hair was KINDA ugly... :p

[MidgardDragon]

I'm just finishing up reading Angels and Demons and it's pretty good. I liked The Da Vinci Code as well. Neither book is the best book ever or anything, but they're both equally entertaining.

[FanofTom]

Angels & Demons is better than the Da Vinci Code (the ending of the latter was disappointing)
Also like Digital Fortress and Deception point

[obsessedwithsv]

Like pretty much all of the posters here, I found Angels & Demons a better read (and a better film). I read them a while ago, so I forget why :lol:. I also read Digital Fortress and thought highly of it. It was a nice change of pace having different characters and agendas. Yet to read Deception Point and waiting for The Lost Symbol to come out in paper back because the whole series of books has to look nice on my bookshelf :p. It's not like Dan Brown's the best author in the world, but amidst all the controversy I just really like an action thriller and I can't even imagine how he puts all the different pieces of each book together to make one huge web of intrigue. Whether most of it's fact or fiction, I just enjoy being entertained, lol.