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Advantages: Strong Subject, Easy to get lost within, Adventure seems real
Disadvantages: Historical errors, Similar structure to Da Vinci Code

...Da Vinci Code well before Angels and Demons even though the former is the sequel released three years later. Does this mean that Dan Brown's first Robert Langdon novel is ay good? Published first in 2000 by Pocket Books, Angels and Demons has actually been branded an international Bestseller and despite selling more copies after the release of its sequel, critical reviews have generally been positive. Is it a 'breathless, real-time adventure with ...
...Well the story within Angels and Demons is one we are all familiar with, a race against time. Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor and symbologist teams up with marine scientist Vittoria Vetra on a quest that leads them to the Vatican and Rome pursuing a murderer who claims to be working for an ancient brotherhood known as The Illuminati, hell bent on blowing up the entire state. Robert Langdon, an Illuminati specialist doubts the claims, whilst Vittoria ... Read review

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The saying "Never judge a book by its cover" is completely true with this book. This is one of a pile of books my husband bought for me after rooting through for Jackie Collins books, the charity shop for me. I took one look at the cover and judged it as not a book I wanted to read. Then I got bored, I was almost crawling the walls looking for a book to read. I picked this up in desperation, and vowed never to judge a book by its cover ever again. ...
...the life of Josephine Czinski, a pretty young girl whose birth in to this world was hard on her and her mother and caused her father to have a heart attack and die. Her mother became a fanatical church goer, bringing her daughter up to believe she was the soul cause of her father's death. Her mother makes her living by making dresses and things for the rich oil tycoons and their families in, Odessa Texas. Josephine uses the cinema as an escape from ... Read review

Advantages: enjoyable
Disadvantages: none

...Beaton and it is the Agatha Raisin series.She is the main character of the book and this is the first book which introduces the scene. The author tells us that Agatha Raisin retired from her job and she was in her mid fifties. She had a hankering to return back to the Cotswolds to live after last being there when she was a child and had a holiday there and she always wanted to go back there.So she brought a cottage down there and it was in a place ...
...had a couple flings with Agatha and also she gave him a key to her cottage. Her cleaner Dora Simpson who was always dependable. Miss Simms who was the unmarried mother who likes to go out with married men. Also Mrs Boxley a very kind gentle woman who at times acts as Agatha's conscience and perhaps her only friend. Then there was Bill Wong who is half chines and a Detective Sergeant who becomes very involved in Agatha's very often clumsy dectective ... Read review

Advantages: fast moving thriller that rivals frederick forsyth's position as storyteller
Disadvantages: the book isn't long enough!!!!

I can't tell you too much about the story line that hasn't already been said without spoiling your 'read', but suffice to say that the scene on the hillside when the russian spy (Romanov) gets onto the bus (that has the Royal Philharmonic Society on board)looking for Adam (our hero!) is brilliant. Robin the female double bass player doing her bit for women's lib excels. This book has been one of my personal favourites for about 20 years and if you ... Read review

Advantages: Mind-gripping and exciting
Disadvantages: Similar read to all his other novels

This is a fantastic book. John Grisham is a fantastic writter, i havent read a bad book written by him yet!!!! I Would definately recommend this particular book. In some ways similar to the other books written by John Grisham yet in some ways it has a different content...I dont want to give to much information away though!!!! This book is a very easy read and again mind-gripping in the sense that when i started to read it I didnt want to put it down ... Read review