I am currently reading “Angels and Demons,” by Dan Brown. It is about Robert Langdon, an art history teacher at Harvard, who finds himself struggling to save Vatican City from a satanic cult. The story is quite intriguing, but so far the writing in the book has been simple, predictable, and cheesy. The bad guys are all described by the same adjectives, mainly dark and mysterious. The heroine is Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful scientist, stricken by her father’s death, and destined to fall in love with our hero, Langdon. The story has not yet revealed this plot point, but the author’s predictable writing revealed it almost as soon as both characters had been introduced. I would be shocked if it turned out another way.
Although I do not like the prose, the plot of this book is fast paced and interesting. It is possible for me to become so engrossed in the story that I don’t notice the writer’s fallbacks. Currently, there is an anti-matter bomb somewhere in the Vatican, and several priests have been kidnapped by an agent of the Illuminati, the satanic cult referred to above. Langdon and Vetra are hard at work trying to rescue the captured priests. I would hazard a guess that they fail to rescue all of the priests, but will save at least one of them.
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