Angels and Demons was better written and stayed away from Brown's pseudointellectual facinations and fabrications. The reason it was not as popular is because it takes the common myth of the Illuminati (and treats it basically as that, with some exceptions) and pits it against an evil Vatican figure. Brown clearly also did more research into his topics in Angels and Demons, however his fantasy sometimes seems fantaical when he insists in an interview that he believes some of the stuff he writes (the author of the concept of the Jesus bloodline insists that he doesn't even believe and that he was floating it as a theory).
For the most part Angels and Demons was written like any other entertaining adventure novel, although it pissed off the Vatican and others. The Da Vinci Code however, is Brown's failed attempt at an intellectual novel. Despite it being entertaining, which it was, the Da Vinci Code is still just a cheap novel.
I'm sure that if it was was the first book you've read it'd be quite entertaining. Not a -good- book in the literary quality sense, but good entertainment. What I find absolutely hilarious though, is all the commotion it's created. People going out of their way trying to debunk a work of fiction. Christian groups crying foul because of the mishandling of actual fact in the book and so forth. If a book like DaVinci is enough to rock the ground the faith is built on, maybe someone should start looking inwards instead of attacking a common lyaman. Personally I think Dan Brown has made many mistakes and wrong conclusions, based on faulty source-material. But it works in a fiction book.
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