Book Report on Angels and Demons
Book Report on Angels and Demons
--From Opposition to Unity I’ve recently finished re-reading Angels and Demons, this time in English. The book was written by Dan Brown, an American author of thriller fiction. Most people probably know Dan Brown first through his bestselling novel in 2003, The Da Vinci Code, and I couldn’t help but fell into the same practice. Similar to The Da Vinci Code.This book presents a story in which the protagonist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon was summoned nearly half way across the world to examine a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, Leonardo Vetra – and discovered that the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati was just around the corner. This time, it had put its aim at the world’s religious center, the Vatican City. This is really an attractive book, or as the critics put it, a “fast paced page turner”.[1]I could hardly put it down since I began reading. On the map of Vantican city I traced every step of Robert Langdon through his adventure on the "Path of Illumination". I tried solving those puzzles that concerned the lives of thousands of people and thousands of years of artifacts on my own. But it was the conflict of two characters, Maximilian Kohler and Carlo Ventresca, or to be more precisely, the conflict between science and religion that got my deepest interest. Kohler was the director of CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire), who was permanently disabled because his parents didn’t let the physicians cure him but only prayed for him when he suffered from fever as a boy. Caro, on the other hand, was the Papal Chamberlain and had lost his mother during an attack on the church they were in by the Red Brigade, an attack aided by human technology advances. So they became devoted fighters in their own fields, one tries to enlighten people’s minds, the other tries to cure people’s souls. But science develops much faster than religion, “we measure
--From Opposition to Unity I’ve recently finished re-reading Angels and Demons, this time in English. The book was written by Dan Brown, an American author of thriller fiction. Most people probably know Dan Brown first through his bestselling novel in 2003, The Da Vinci Code, and I couldn’t help but fell into the same practice. Similar to The Da Vinci Code.This book presents a story in which the protagonist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon was summoned nearly half way across the world to examine a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, Leonardo Vetra – and discovered that the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati was just around the corner. This time, it had put its aim at the world’s religious center, the Vatican City. This is really an attractive book, or as the critics put it, a “fast paced page turner”.[1]I could hardly put it down since I began reading. On the map of Vantican city I traced every step of Robert Langdon through his adventure on the "Path of Illumination". I tried solving those puzzles that concerned the lives of thousands of people and thousands of years of artifacts on my own. But it was the conflict of two characters, Maximilian Kohler and Carlo Ventresca, or to be more precisely, the conflict between science and religion that got my deepest interest. Kohler was the director of CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire), who was permanently disabled because his parents didn’t let the physicians cure him but only prayed for him when he suffered from fever as a boy. Caro, on the other hand, was the Papal Chamberlain and had lost his mother during an attack on the church they were in by the Red Brigade, an attack aided by human technology advances. So they became devoted fighters in their own fields, one tries to enlighten people’s minds, the other tries to cure people’s souls. But science develops much faster than religion, “we measure