What is a good question to ask Dan Brown about his novel 'Angels and Demons'?
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Why he had to choose a sexy scientist in the novel + yoga master, I guess that's part of the fiction. Does he ever had any expecience with yoga masters? Is he trying to picture himself through the main caracther? How hard was for you to research about the Vatican secret files?
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I need to know what is the story to answer that question .
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Reviews and Commentary\n(http://www.petehautman.com/invisibleinfo.html)  \n\nLIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) \n\nSeventeen-year-old Dougie takes everything literally, lacks social graces and is a loner, except, perhaps, for his one friend, athletic and popular Andy Morrow. But readers know almost immediately that something tragic has happened in the recent past: ' Andy and I had some bad luck with fires when we were kids. We're more careful now.' Other students feel threatened by Dougie's disturbing behavior and react by targeting him with cruelty and violence, which only serves to escalate his descent into unreality, isolation, and obsession. The teen has been working for nearly three years on his model railroad set, using 22, 400 headless matches to build a bridge connecting portions of the 'Madham Line.' As his life deteriorates, this obsession and his nightly talks with Andy are the only things that keep him clinging to normalcy. He resists the help of his psychiatrist and hides his medication. Ultimately, he is forced to remember what actually happened on that fateful night. With its excellent plot development and unforgettable, heartbreaking protagonist, this is a compelling novel of mental illness. \n\n  \n\nHORN BOOK (starred review) \n\nGifted in math, and recognizably clever when constructing architectural models (he's building an elaborate railroad system in his basement), Doug reveals that it's human interaction he can't figure out. "I'm a quiet kid, pretty much invisible," he says in a precise, unemotional voice, as this unreliable narrator begins his story. Invisibility is Doug's rationale for explaining a range of rejection, from teacher irritation to peer scorn, particularly from pretty and popular Melissa Haverman, who is disgusted by what readers will recognize as Doug's stalker behavior. But Doug reports one near-perfect relationship, the one he has with his best friend, Andy. Gradually, however, that friendship is revealed to be not what it seems. There are secrets from their past that Doug won't discuss, and hints from their present life that skew his tale. Why is there a strange man in Andy's house? What fuels Doug's increasingly complex rendering of their intertwined initials? What medication is Doug refusing to take? Reading this psychological thriller is much like putting together one of Doug's railroad bridges: connections are being made, but the realities being built may be imitations of life rather than the real thing. The tension comes from entering Doug's private hell and learning what put him there. \n\n  \n\nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) \n\nThe strength of Hautman's painfully sad novel is the wisecracking but clearly unreliable voice of its narrator, 17-year-old Douglas MacArthur Hanson who admits, "I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed." One of his passions is "Madham," a town he's building for his model railroad, complete with a 1:800 scale replica of the Golden Gate Bridge. He's also fixated on a pretty girl who clearly wants nothing to do with him. And he's overly reliant on his only friend, Andy Morrow, a fellow junior who is the popular and outgoing yang to Dougie's outcast and introverted yin. Hautman expertly teases out the truth about a tragic incident that occurred "at the Tuttle place" three years earlier, a mystery that propels the story to its horrific conclusion. Dougie is as mathematically gifted and socially inept as the autistic narrator of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but he also has a sophisticated wit. During a lapse in conversation at one of his $95-an-hour therapy sessions, he observes, "We stare at each other for about $1.40." His self-deprecating comments and wry observations make his spiral into self destruction all the more heartbreaking. (One measure of how sympathetically the aut
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That is a hard question I have over two hundred books in my personal library and have read at least double that. What exactly are you looking for? An overview or something more in depth on a particular subject.\n\nEmail me and I can steer you in the right direction.
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i haven't read it, but if you have an e-file, would you mind sending it to me via email?\n\ncaeszarre@yahoo.com\n\ni've read "Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel" and "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature"\n\nthanks.
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what does this have to do w/ religion and spirituality?\n\ntry to get interested....
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It's funny. I wrote a short story called Shadow People that hasn't been published yet. I've also written The Spotted Hyena and Devils Hole which were published at sffworld.com Sounds like you have enough imagination to be a very good horror writer.
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I am right with you Bohemian. I think the book and the movie are quite overrated, mostly because of the controversy. I read the book and wasn't especially thrilled with it, no the ideas presented, but the actual writing and such. I would suggest anyone read Angels and Demond by Dan Brown for a much better book.
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Hi Tari,\nI met the ChristopherBetchel once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings.\nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion.\n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem.\n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized ChristopherBetchel from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of ChristopherBetchel's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?"\n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!"\n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until ChristopherBetchel was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of ChristopherBetchel for a long, long time.\n\nI can't say for certain if ChristopherBetchel got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you Tari, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life.\n\n-Justin
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"I found Angels and Demons to be too far fetched, what with Langdon falling out of a plane and surviving!! But I suppose it is possible that the Vatican could be breached, since 9/11 it's painfully clear that nowhere is safe."\n\nTrue but if you needed that as evidence then you are to naive. Vatican can be breached but people smart enough to do so would also be smart enough to realize the negitive consequences of doing so.
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Aw man, I wish I knew! You might want to check http://www.danradcliffe.com/ they have all the latest on Dan. Good-luck!
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You can start by not asking this question on Yahoo Answers.\n\nThen you could check out some literature from the Paladin Press.
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The book is about Jesus reportedly marrying Mary Magdalene and having a daughter, sarah.. and that the Holy Grail is not the cup that jesus drank from at the last supper, but the sacred feminine=mary magdalene..also contains references to symbolism trying 2 prove Jesus married and had a child.\nAs per the book an organisation called the Priory of Sion was founded by the Templars to protect the holy secret of the church. The Curator of the Louvre..who happens to be the Grand Master of the Priory is found dead within the museum the night he is to meet an american symbolism prof..Mr.Langdon. Langdon meets his granddaughter ..who has had a falling-out wiht her granddad after witnessing a sacred act.\nIt shows how they discover the secret of the Priory and of sophie(granddaughter's family).
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The book is an excellent mystery that will keep you turning the pages.  I would recommend reading the book before watching the movie because the movie may be hard to follow if you have not read the book.  At least for me it would have been.\n\nFirst thing you must realize if you are going to read the book, is that it is fiction, and should be taken as FICTION ONLY.  Even though there may be parts which ARE true, you should not get your information about history, religion, and art from a book of fiction.  Absolutely assume that it is all fiction.  Then if you want to later find out where the truth is, you'll just have to do the work of consulting scholarly works, history books, and the Bible as well as the other Gospels that did not make it into the Bible.\n\nSo if you are looking for a good fiction and awesome mystery story, read it and see it.  If you are looking only for historical truth on the matters covered, then do not read it or see it, because it is a terrible source for factual information.  As I say, even though some of the information may be true, you won't be able to know the truth from the falsehood, and there is DEFINITELY falsehood in the book.  Afterall, it IS a fiction novel.
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The book is fictional so doesnt spread any false rumours about Christianity. Its a fictional story (albeit quite convincingly written)\n\nIf it was a non fiction book though it could cause quite a panic amongst the Christian community.\n\nI feel that the Chistian community are causing their own problems by feeling the need to slate what is, at the end of the day, a fictional story.  Their own insecurities are challenging their faith. Not Dan Browns work
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Dan Brown has created much attention with his gnostic gospel rehash, but it has provided excellent opportunities to tell people the real story, so it's not a bad thing.\n\nYou have to be really gullible to think that his story resembles history, so it's no real challenge to the genuine gospel. I mean, he starts by saying, 'this is all true', and everyone goes, 'Uh, OK.'
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Well Dan Brown´s Illuminati is a very good idea.You should also try Stephen King´s books.They are fascinating.