The movie was excellent!!!
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#WithAntonyms
Starting this. I picked up the 3rd in the series from a used sale a few years back, so thought I should give the series a shot
Did anyone else go through a massive reading slump in February or was it just me? Here‘s a reread to try to claw my way back into the reading world.
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I quite enjoyed my first encounter with Robert Langdon. I always find books like this fascinating, intertwining fact and fiction with such a fine line it's almost believable.
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Book haul from the thrift store today. Sadly they didn‘t have all 5 in this series, but I will hopefully find them when I go back. $4 for these isn‘t bad 😍
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#Angels
I have this book on my shelf but I have not read it yet.
"Day 1: Favorite Book in a Series"
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, hands down. I read this for the first time in high school and have loved it ever since.
😂 I don‘t think that was intentional... but it‘s funny
Ch6 of 137. Finding it a bit ... heavy handed.
“‘Definitely not gypsies,‘ he decided in his semiconscious delirium. ‘Aliens perhaps?‘ Yes, he had heard about things like this. Fortunately, the beings would not harm him. All they wanted were his—“ Pg 431
“Glick was sweet...charming in a pasty, Briddish, unstrung sort of way. Like Hugh Grant on lithium.” Pg 229
“Faith is universal. Our #specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.” #QuotsyApr21
I've been rereading books in my collection to keep or give away. I really am at the point where I've read everything fiction in my house!
Finished Deception Point and Digital Fortress (DF is still the best of Dan Brown, I think) so now it's on to Robert Langdon.
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I had high hopes for the story but it fell short of it. Mostly because the many twists were clear see-throughs, many questions were unanswered or rather had really vague explanations and in some cases none at all. The vagueness of breakins and killings is too uncanny for the level of depth percieved. It is surely intriguing and gripping but it is too shallow at points. I don't think i would follow up with series.
Everything leads the way to the ultimate question... Who are we? What is life? How did we come into being? And what's the purpose of our existence?
Me : looking for answers within words, and finding an altogether different amalgamation of a fictional real world
" Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps science did not understand."
"We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity.... even if it is only imagined."
" Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy."
Time taken: 7hrs.
Every Dan Brown book is soooo dense.
Has this happened to anyone else? Just me? Lol I have a habit of having so many books open at once because it depends on my mood lol.
It was a good read. I liked the 1st book better tho. Watched the movie as well(Both angels and demons and the da Vinci code). Movies seem so high paced after reading the very descriptive books of Dan Brown. Intersting book overall.
Reading books which were long overdue feels like the only accomplishment of #2020.
Can you tell I like used books?
Looking at this stack I think the one I‘m most excited for is actually The Forest by Edward Rutherford....
#unreadandontheshelf
I haven‘t read this in a long time, so it was great getting to read it again before getting to the newest book in the series. I remembered more of the movie than the book. The book is much different, with some characters being cut out of the movie entirely. I think I like the book version far better than the movie version. I liked the book the first time around, but I liked it even better this time around, somehow.
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I‘m dying. 🤣😂🤣 The Holy Thrown. 🤣😂🤣 If you guys thought I was twisted because of my love in Act V of Titus Andronicus, this is a whole new level. 🤣😂🤣 Either this is ridiculously funny, or quarantine has cracked me. 🤣😂🤣 The Holy Thrown. 🤣😂🤣
#DanBrown #RobertLangdonSeries #AngelsAndDemons
I read this 11 years ago. In 2009 I kept this in my bag to give me something to do to stay out of the way when my mother was arguing with my grandmother to shower at the nursing home. I remember it, but don‘t. I just watched the movie so I‘m having a go with it again, to refresh my memory on all the places Robert Langdon has been before starting Origin for the first time.
Watched the movie before reading the book. Enjoyed both. And it put Rome on my need-to-visit list. 🛵💙
"The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears"
Janus to killer
So I thought I would be tagging this as a reread but as it turns out the only thing I remembered was the controversy in the telling and the mystery in the religious symbols. 137 chapters, and not once did I finish a chapter and recall what would happen next. It‘s a particularly interesting read in these days regarding fearful efforts of religion to stifle science.
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This book had some good qualities to it. I was very intrigued by all the historical aspects and different things about the Illuminati that was presented. Unfortunately, I was left slightly disappointed to read through the entire book and have picked out early who the villain was and what happens with the weapon. It was a let down because of the built expectations of the evil in the book, only to have the rug ripped out in a anticlimactic reveal.
Wow.. What a fantastic book I've read so far. Really an awesome read, pounding cliffhanger and i literally sense anxiety while i read some pages. I wished go go go run faster.. Yeah go go.. I was literally running jumping and doing stuff while i read. The monstrous places, beautiful artifacts, humongous plans and deceitful people all took this to a next level. Cat chase everywhere and i was totally carried out by those characters. CSK fans, go 4't