angels and demons

[chazza]

which should be read first, "Angels and Demons" or "The Da Vinci Code", or does it not matter?

[Pies]

Only just bought Angels & Demons so i cant say I was goaded in to buying the Da Vinci Code coz of all the hype it generated. I'd never heard of Dan Brown before that, great marketing tactic getting the religious types out there warbling dont you think?

[new_squizza]

techincally, angels and demons comes before the da vinci code - there are references to the events of angels and demons in the da vinci code, but it really doesn't make much difference.

however, the cynic in me would say you only really need to read one of these as they are pretty much the same story, but set in different cities and with different sidekicks!

[AliFlump]

i liked the Da vinci code and its like anything else, i like what i like not what people tell me to like.

[Chessman]

Just got to put my twopennyworth in, having read the Da Vinci code, a faily enjoyable book, with a really very wek ending, I wouldn't read, let alone by another book by Dan Brown. Having said that, everyone to their own.

[Chessman]

Sorry for the spelling.

[Shipstabber]

Da Vinci Code is by far the worst book I've ever read.

I would read another Dan Brown book if you held a gun to my head. But only if.

[steveaa1]

Both books are an excellent read, as are Deception Point and Digital Fortress. This is an author that courts contraversy, so expect a few wagging fingers. Then read on!

[Drusilla]

Angels and Demons first and then The Da Vinci Code, but I agree with new_squizza; once you've read one, the other is virtually the same. I found that a bit of a rip off.

[new_squizza]

sorry steveaa1, but i can't agree with you about digital fortress - this was by far the worst book out of the four and the certainly the worst book i've read in a very long time.

i had an idea what the twist at the end was gonna be by about page 12, and thought surely it can't be that simple. i got five pages from the end of the book and was incredibly dissappointed to realise that i'd been right all along.

i almost stopped reading.

[mimififi]

have only ever read DVC, and it wasn't so cryptic that not reading A&D was a stumbling block.

Frankly, deplorably weak, and I didn't bother with A&D. My other half is a book 'collector' that is, if he reads something by an authro, he usually reads everything, esp if he liked it. He read DVC and DP, but only because he bought them at the same time. He has not read anything else by Dan Brown.

A quick, weekend read; magazine style literature; to the world of literature as Big Brother is to the world of T.V. A modern classic only due itits infamousy, DB does not seem to be one of the current laureatess; personally I like something with a bit more substance.

[juliely]

Read the Da Vinci Code and was very disappointed. I will not be reading anymore Dan Brown novels.

[steveaa1]

Surely its dangerous to judge an author by any one novel? Not that there is any comparison with DB, but imagine beginning Shakespeare by reading The Tempest and being put off for life.... ! Just kidding. DB has his own style, and its not for everyone. Three cheers for diversity in literature!!