Title: Like "Angels and Demons" sideways
Product review: If you've read one, you've read 'em both! That's how I feel about "The Da Vinci Code" and Dan Brown's similar "Angels and Demons." These books are parallel in so many ways that it is almost ridiculous: an "expert" gets murdered in a bizarre, cruel fashion; the beautiful daughter of the "expert" searches for the killer by hooking up with a Harvard professor; there is much religious symbolism; there is a cruel, unstoppable assassin who takes orders from a cruel, all-knowing unidentified director; there are challenging puzzles for the protagonaist to solve (in "Da Vinci" at least the reader gets to play along); there is cliffhanger after improbable cliffhanger; etc.; etc.; etc.However, all this is not to say that both books are not great reads, wildly entertaining, and frankly, very interesting, in their revelations about the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar("Da Vinci") and the Illuminati ("Angels"). I recommend both books, but you really only have to read one
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