[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons

[U.S.]Dan Brown: Angels and Demons, translated by Zhu Zhenwu, Wang Qiaoli, and Xin Yan, People’s Literature Publishing House, February 2005, 29.8 yuan—☆

The second book I read during my Shanxi period. Since I have never been very enthusiastic about bestsellers, I nearly missed The Da Vinci Code; later the movie came out, and I heard it had something to do with science and religion, so I downloaded it and watched it. It really was quite remarkable—after all, there are many good books even among bestsellers~

Although I still haven’t read the original The Da Vinci Code, after reading this Angels and Demons, I am certain that this book is even more splendid than The Da Vinci Code, or at least no worse. Science, religion, art, history, semiotics… Dan Brown is skillful at weaving together all sorts of fields seamlessly in a gripping suspense novel.

Since this is a suspense novel, I won’t write much about it here; it’s still most interesting to read it from beginning to end oneself. If you know the plot in advance, it loses its charm.

The Illuminati symbol is amazing~~~ a palindromic word: rotate it 180 degrees and it looks exactly the same: earth, air, fire, water; actually, the title “Angels and Demons” is also a palindromic word, but in the Chinese edition the font above it was changed to a normal one instead…

http://book.mv360.com/waiguo/tianshiyumogui/059.htm

July 8, 2007

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Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.