Title: Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Pocket Books in 2000
# of Pages: 480
Firstly, my two favourite genres of literature are mystery and thriller. I also prefer fictitious novels to non-fiction ones because I find they can possess a more interesting, modifiable plot. I choose Angels and Demons as my independent study novel because it is a fictional thriller story. Also I have seen the movie The Da Vinci Code and it has sparked an interest in Dan Brown's 3 part Robert Langdon series. Angels and Demons is the first novel in the 3 book series.
Unfortunately I have not been able to start my novel because I have been busy with work and my family. However, from reading a background of the story I have gathered an idea of the setting. It takes place over the time period of a day, in and around the Vatican City (a country located inside Rome, Italy). It involves the main character Robert Langdon on an adventure to prevent the Illuminati, a highly controversial cult organization, from destroying the Vatican City with stolen antimatter. From this small description, the plot already sounds interesting because of elements like the Illuminati, antimatter and old, dark parts of Catholicism.
Some secondary sources I have found are the movie of Angels and Demons, background information on wikipedia.ca and criticism from theopencritic.com/?p=17. I am waiting until I finish the book to watch the movie, because books tend to have more to the plot than movies. Also I hope the criticism I have read is incorrect, because it states "Buy it. Read it. Forget it."
