Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series.

[Yvonne hawse]

What I love most about this series is how interactive it is. I have yet to read one that hasn't had me running to my computer to confirm or negate what Brown is writng about. I've searched copies of paintings for the clues he mentions in the Davinci Code, checking sources cited in Angels and Demons regarding the resurgence of the Illuminati and the Masonic references in The Lost Symbol. I have yet to read 'The Infeno" but have it on my 'must read' list.

[AHenderson42]

They are all great aren't they? They all have the Brown conspiracy feel (made more realistic by his EXCELLENT fact checking), but they are all different as well. To me "Angels and Demons" was more actively heart-pounding and "The DaVinci Code" was more psych you out thrilling. Did anyone else get that vibe?

[ebetti09]

I have also not read "The Inferno" and it's currently at the top of my list of books to read. I love how much thought is put into his novels. You can't help but check the sources to really get a feel of what Dan Brown was thinking while creating this series. The amount of time and knowledge that went into this is fascinating. Now that you mention it, you are absolutely right about the "Angels and Demons" being more heart-pounding. Thinking about it now, I'm not sure why that is... Maybe it's because it was set in the Vatican? It could be just me brainstorming, but to think that those turn of events could happen in such a holy place... Could be why it was so heart-pounding? Thoughts?

[mwhitedances13]

I have read every single one of Dan Brown's books and they are all thrilling. Not only do the books make you desire to hit the computer to research what he describes but he has you sitting on the edge of your seat often as well. His Robert Langdon series provides you with the experience through art, architecture, and history, whereas his other books are more science based. All of them are page turners and highly recommended. Angels and Demons is my favorite.

[K_Kaori]

I have not read any other books of Dan Brown other than the Robert Langdon series, but i believe he has a great potential to create mystery, play around conspiracy theories and present excellent facts. Throughout reading each book Robert Langdon impressed me so well, which in turn meant that the author has a strong capability of keeping his readers hooked and fascinated. It's one of my favorite series!

[Sarah_Khan]

I totally agree with you, searching up the stuff referenced in the books was a lot of fun and it led me to learn a lot of things because I would click on one site then find something else related that was interesting and I would click on that too.
I don't remember which book it was in the series but I read one version of the book where the book had a bunch of photos of the paintings and buildings referenced and it was awesome because you didn't have to search for anything... it was all right there!

[Ellie Gatillo]

I agree. Dan Brown is one of my favorite authors because of Robert Langdon's character. And the stories always kept me on my toes. Brown's conspiracy theory felt so real I could almost believe it. I haven't read Inferno and The Lost Symbol yet but I heard these two books are also great.

[Abhishek Paruthi]

Dan Brown is one of those authors who has the uncanny ability to illustrates the real facts into the conspiracy theories, I have read all his novels while reading his work it was like, I didn't want to stop reading. He is creating a world of fantasies which is very intriguing to the readers. I love his work especially in The Vinci code and Inferno. Apart from the Langdon series his other books were also very equally excited. But my favorite will always be The Vinci Code.

[Ljessup]

I just finished "Angels and Demons", and read The "Da Vinci Code" prior to that and found both of them to be amazing. "The Da Vinci Cod"e was so well written and I found myself fact checking the entire time. The way Dan Brown captures each character is fantastic. The albino was a fantastic force and the revelation of who was behind the grand scheme was such a twist. I never saw it coming and I was trying to figure it out the entire time. Dan Brown does a great job of keeping one fully submerged in his books by making it quite difficult to figure out who was in charge of what is happening and even having the time to do so in between reading the rest of the book. I couldn't put the book down, and when I did I found myself questioning things about the book and the characters. Angels and Demons was just as good, if not better in my opinion, than "The Da Vinci Code" It starts out with Robert being summoned to the CERN to decipher a symbol that was burned into the flesh of a deceased physicist. The detail Dan Brown went into the describe the body as well as the room the body was in was immeasurable. The coldness that Robert had to endure while analyzing the symbol and where it derives from proves difficult paired with the deceased body with boiled flesh and his head tuned backwards is enough to make anyone want to turn and run from that scene. Kohler is introduced through this whole process as CERN's director general and is the one who summoned Robert to help him crack the code and find out who murdered his top physicist. Kohler was not the most welcoming and was usually pitied due to his sickness causing him to be in a wheelchair. He listens to Robert while Langdon explains the symbol, which is revealed as the Illuminati symbol, and then shows the last gruesome act that happened to Lenonardo Verta; his eye being carved from his head. Robert doesn't understand why the killer (Hassassin) would do such a thing, but Kohler simply asks after this big reveal if Robert things the Illuminati hasn't risen again. The story goes on revealing different moves the Hassassin is making after he calls "Janus," which is the overseer of this murder, and is told to get some rest. The hassassin instead goes to reward himself for the job he had completed with sexual encounters with a woman of his choosing. We are then brought back to Robert and Kohler who have been into Vetra's study and have continued discussing the Illuminati symbol burned into Vetra's chest and what it might mean or what next step might be taken. Robert reveals different things about the Illuminati that, he believes, proves they could not have resurfaced and that this is simply someone trying to make it seem as though the Illuminati was back to bring terror among the people again. While this conversation is taken place, we cut to another country where a camera (#86) is looking at something other than the hallway it was supposed to be overlooking. Robert and Kohler are still discussing what all that has happened could mean when we finally meet Vittoria Vetra, Leonardo's daughter, coming back early from a research trip due to the news of her father's death. Introductions are placed as Vittoria exclaims she wants to see her father, and Kohler redirects the conversation to asking what Vittoria and Leonardo were working on. Their project was top secret and Kohler had given them the necessary space and secrecy to do their work as he claims he trusts them. Vittoria hesitates at first, but does end up telling Kohler and Robert about the anitmatter that her and her father had discovered and how they had been trap antimatter and hold it in canisters that she had come up with while it was suspended in the air inside the container. Vittoria told Kohler and Robert that she and her father had trapped the most antimatter, a full quarter of a gram, below the lab. Kohler was not happy that it was stored in the lower lab, but put that aside and had Vittoria escort himself and Robert to see this antimatter considering they had just witnessed what would happen it antimatter mixed with matter outside of the canister. (An explosion) When they all reached the lower lab Vittoria pressed her eye to a scanner and Kohler again was unhappy with the measure of security her and her father used, but that was quickly the least important matter as when the three of them stepped inside, there on the floor was Leonardo Vetra's eye that had been carved out of his skull hours earlier.

This is a quick sample of what "Angels and Demons" is about and as it is seen this book captures the reader from the jump into a complete mystery as to what happened, why it happened, who did it, and what the next step of what is happening is going to be. I was completely engulfed in this book through it's entirety and was always trying to figure out the riddles along with Robert. Dan Brown makes it easy to become your own character in the book and make it feel like you are right there in the midst of things with how descriptive his diction is. There was never a moment I felt that the book was slow moving, or where I felt that the "damsel in distress" was making matters (no pun intended) worse or harder for those trying to solve the mystery. In many of the previous books I have read I almost cannot stand the female character because many people that I personally like to read make her almost useless to helping solve the mystery. With Dan Brown, in this book and in "The Da Vinci Code" that was never the case. He always made sure each character was pulling their own weight and vital to the plot itself. He did a marvelous job in each book and both had me realizing that there is absolutely no way I could solve mystery because once he revealed who was behind the different scenarios I was completely dumbfounded and did not see it coming! Highly recommend his books and thoroughly enjoyed reading the two I have. On to the next one now, "Deception Point."

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[MarisaRose]

Although I have some issues with Dan Brown's series I do agree that they are fun to read and I have found myself fact checking things as I read!

[heather_r]

When 'The DaVinci Code' first came out I was really resistant towards reading it because of its popularity and, well, its cover . Finally one day I picked up my roommates copy just to see what all the fuss was about. I was hooked from page 1. I spent the next 12 hours reading. The Robert Langon series is my favorite series of all time.

[Samyann]

Origin by Dan Brown - Langdon Series, Book 5

Briefly, a protege of Robert Langdon, Edmund, is preparing to make an announcement regarding the existence, or lack, of God - and the proof. Langdon is in the audience at the request of Edmund, and we’re off and running when the guy is murdered before the big reveal. What was Edmund about to announce? Thus is the thrust. Langdon is accompanied by the beautiful future queen of Spain and the voice of “Winston”, the AI intelligent computer invented by Edmund. “Winston” is the best part of the book.

Origin isn’t up to the standards of the previous Robert Langdon stories, in my opinion. Pages and pages of build-up to a disappointing climax. Theories abound in several discussions/lectures that might put you to sleep. The earth shattering, life altering news of “where are we going” and “where have we come from” is simply speculation that is old news to anybody with half and eye on the news. There are hundreds of Internet pages spouting the same fundamental beliefs. Ridiculously hyped. Even Robert Langdon is smarter than to buy into this silly story. Stephen Hawking has been telling us all this same stuff for years - there is nothing new here.

Narration by Paul Michael is super, as usual - no narration issues.

Written by Dan Brown, Book 5 in the Robert Langdon series. About 18 hours of listening in unabridged format and released by Random House Audio in October 2017.

[CaitlinGonya]

Dan Brown started my journey through historical fiction. I loved Da Vinci Code so much that I got a Bachelors in Studio Arts because I mainly wanted to work in an art museum so I could tell stories about the pieces.

[Grantwalter]

I have read virtually all the book in the series,they are all heart-pounding especially "angels and demon"

[MandyP]

I love Dan Brown, he is certainly a master of mystery and I love how much depth and research go into his books. He has me saying 'really?' and 'wow' a lot when reading. I also like how he's not afraid to discuss some issues that are potentially controversial in religion.