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The story of Langdon's brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the world's most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose fat...( read more 
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MCT:November 21, 2008OMG!!! i cannot wait for this movie!!! tom hanks is a brilliant actor!!! and it's like a sequel or something to the da vinci code, which is soooo amazing!!!
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MCT:November 10, 2008
OH MY GOOD Desperate to watch this one! Ive started to read the book, haven't finished it, now i want to!
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MCT:November 3, 2008
I want to see this movie soooo much!! I have been waiting for this one ever since I read the book and watched The Davinci Code!! I know it's going to be an awesome movie!! Oh, I cannot wait!! :)
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MCT:November 2, 2008
Ewan McGregor. I saw Da Vinci Code and disliked it very much, My exceptions are pretty low on this one.
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MCT:October 29, 2008
The book's first edition contained notably numerous errors of location of places in Rome, as well as incorrect uses of Italian language. Some of the language issues were corrected in the following editions. [2] Angels and Demons caused some irritation due to the author's device of publishing a claim of the factual content of the book, backed up by acknowledgments of thanks to bodies such as CERN and references on the author's web site apparently confirming these statements. Although implausible plot devices are a common feature of adventure stories, the concern lies in how much detail the author was seeking to suggest was true, and, more importantly, how the more naive reader might be misled. For example, the existence of the Illuminati is not disputed as historical fact, but the plot of the book suggests that many famous figures throughout history were part of it, some of whom predate the organization.
Aside from the explicit introduction, the style of the book is that various fictional experts will expound on factual issues. This literary device suggests to the reader that what is being told is intended to be factual. An example of the confusion here are the anti-matter discussions, where the book suggests that anti-matter can be produced in useful and practical quantities and will be a limitless source of power - CERN themselves refute this and note on their web site, on the page answering questions about this book:[3] "I was hoping antimatter would be the future answer to our energy needs... No, the true answer is that it will never happen simply because of the entropy problem... It is not a matter of 'more research' or 'more advanced technology' to find ways around these limitations." Antimatter requires a great deal more energy to create than can be extracted from it.[4]
There are several errors in the procedures of the Catholic Church. For instance, the Camerlengo, the Papal Chamberlain is in reality a Cardinal and not a priest. Secondly the book makes reference to John Paul II's Universi Dominici Gregis as the rules governing the conclave in the book. If this was indeed the case then the Camerlengo would not have been elected by the cardinals as the method of election by acclamation was abolished by Universi Dominici Gregis. Also, the book suggests that the Papal Conclave is overseen by a Cardinal called the Great Elector, however, in reality the process is managed by the Dean of the College of Cardinals.The term only was inaccurate, for Cardinal Mortati, the "Great Elector" in the novel, was also the current Dean. Also in the novel, the voting took 3 ballots in a single night where in fact, one ballot may be held during the afternoon. In a real conclave, if a ballot takes place on the afternoon of the first day and no-one is elected, or no ballot had taken place, four ballots are held on each successive day: two in each morning and two in each afternoon. Another error is that the cardinals are dressed in their black simar and scarlet fascia but during a real conclave, the cardinals are in choir dress. (Note: in the movie, In the Shoes of a Fisherman, the cardinals are in their simars during a break but this cannot be verified.)
Also, this book mentions one Cardinal Ebner from Frankfurt. In truth, there is no cardinal from Frankfurt as there is no Archbishop of Frankfurt. There are only 4 cardinals from Germany: from Mainz, Cologne, Munich, and Berlin.
Another error in the novel is when the Camerlengo mentioned that the Tomb of St. Peter is where the palliums are kept and to be given to a new cardinal. While this is true, the palliums are only given to metropolitan archbishops before exercising his office in his ecclesiastical province. A cardinal can only receive a pallium if he is also a metropolitan archbishop.
The X-33 aircraft described early in the book, is actually an unmanned aircraft, and the project to develop it further was canceled by NASA.
One possible historical error is that of the Assassin remembering how the Crusaders had destroyed the "Temples" of the "gods" of his people. In reality, the Assassins came from a Muslim background, and therefore had only one God, Allah, who is worshipped in Mosques, which are not temples but prayer-houses.
In one scene, the pilot of the special plane tells Langdon that at 60,000 ft altitude he is 30% lighter (presumably in level flight, where it is not true) and this caused him to have "altitude sickness", whereas the term usually refers to problems due to low pressure at altitude.
In another scene Robert Langdon tells a class of university students that the Catholic church stole the idea of the holy communion from the Aztecs. The Aztec empire was discovered by European explorers in the 16th century, at which time the communion had been a sacrament in the Catholic church for over a thousand years.
Gunther Glick and Chinita Macri, reporters from BBC, repeatedly talk about winning a Pulitzer Prize for their story. In reality, Pulitzers are awarded to American newspapers, so a British news broadcast would be doubly ineligible.
In the book the design of the Papal Guard's current uniforms are attributed to Michelangelo, while in fact they were designed by Jules
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malleyne2004posted 6 days ago -
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I am trying desperately to get this book read..i can't get past the 49th page or so.
I've tryed many times, but i can't get into it.
My friends say it's better than the DaVinci Code though so i'ma try and read it before this film comes out :D
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I hope this will be as good as the book! I'm so looking forward to seeing it!
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