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Title: Tragically awful - stick to the Da Vinci Code
Review: I read The Da Vinci Code before picking up Angels & Demons. Now, I knew that TDVC did not present brilliant writing, but it was a fun ride so I gave A&D a try. Bad idea. The plot was so predictable and the ending made me want to toss the book at the wall....but I don't think my neighbor would have liked that too much. Apparenly Dan Brown has a formula that he likes to follow - `reluctant handsome hero, and lest not forget brilliant, travels to foreign place to solve crime, is joined by younger female sidekick-destined-to-be-love-interest, together they experience much danger and peril, only to win just in the nick of time and have that passionate kiss with the sunset behind them.' Lame. If you've read TDVC and enjoyed it in all of its 3rd grade reading level simplicity as a merely fun read, then don't ruin that feeling with this atrocity passing as a novel.
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