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Title: Angels, Demons need Editor
Review: I don't know what happened between "Angels and Demons" and "The DaVinci Code," but anyone who expects to find a worthy precursor to the Code will be disappointed. The prose limps; the plot is chaotic; there are countless bits of narrative that don't ring true (e.g., an extremely bright young girl raised in an orphanage asks, "What does 'adopted' mean?"); and the endless ending(s) are as tedious as the twenty codas of those second-rate pieces of classical music that won't quit. I can only conclude that Dan Brown underwent an editorial transplant at some point, with excellent results. It's too bad that his publishers felt it necessary to trade on the success of "The DaVinci Code" by reissuing this very weak earlier effort.
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