Angels and Demons - Dan Brown


This is a pretty readable book. What Dan Brown lacks in elegance, he more than makes up in creating curiosity with his formulaic placement of chapters that carry independent story threads forward. Also, the fact that he writes about interesting things like symbology and secret societies sure gets you turning those pages.


I sometimes wonder why no Indian has written a book that laced together the cornucopia of symbology and secret subcultures that have existed in conjunction with magic and spirituality through the ages in this country. Even a book like "A Search in Secret India" which was journalistic at best, was brilliant without trying to be a thriller or a page turner. Huge potential.