Angels and Demons By Dan Brown

CERN's director, Maximilian Kohler, finds that one of CERN's best scientist, Leonardo Vetra, has been killed. Left on Leonardo's chest is the word "Illuminati", formed as an ambigram, using a hot iron. Kohler then calls Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon, to investigate this case. When Leonardo's daughter, Vittoria Vetra, arrives at CERN, she tells Kohler about the project that her father and her were working on, which is trying to create anti-matter. They soon find out that the anti-matter had been stolen. When the canister the anti-matter is in leaves it's charger for more than 24 hours, the magnetic field inside will drop leaving the anti-matter in contact with matter, which will then cause an enormous explosion to occur. It is then up to Langdon and Vittoria to retrieve the anti-matter before it is too late!

This was a pretty good book, not the best one I have ever read, but it's pretty good. What ruined the book for me was all the scientific and informational stuff in the book. I prefer a book with more action than information. I mean, I could always pick up my science book and read that. The book also had pretty good characters, but not many that I liked. Vittoria seemed too bossy, and she showed off a lot. Kohler thought he was more important than the president. The one I liked best was Langdon because he didn't think he was everything. I also liked the fact that he talked to himself in his head and made jokes about others. This usually happened when others didn't understand what he was saying. Overall this was a pretty good book. It could have been better though and I'm pretty sure that the sequel,The Da Vinici Code, is a much better book.

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