Angels & Demons

[flippyshark]

It was certainly an entertaining read, but I have to admit that one element went waaay off my suspension-of-disbelief scale. (It's something near the end so if you haven't read the book and plan to, do not open the spoiler window below.)

Spoiler:

Jumping out of a helicopter many thousands of feet in the air holding onto a tarp? And then he was perfectly okay!?!?!?

Oh well, not like the book was aiming for anything like realism.

[Alex]

I barely made it through The Da Vinci Code because the writing was such hack. I made it about 75 pages into Angels & Demons before throwing the book away. I wasn't even willing to risk it getting into another person's hands. Better that it be recyled into cardboard.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Spoiler:

Jumping out of a helicopter many thousands of feet in the air holding onto a tarp? And then he was perfectly okay!?!?!?

This element has been used before in other novels that I read and I have come to accept that it is pure fantasy. It didn't bother me at all, didn't make me suspend the book-world I was submersed in. Maybe that's why.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

This element has been used before in other novels that I read and I have come to accept that it is pure fantasy. It didn't bother me at all, didn't make me suspend the book-world I was submersed in. Maybe that's why.

Wait, so at the end of the book, if I understand that correctly,

Spoiler:

a guy hand holds a tarp and uses it as a parachute to survive a long fall?

I have to ask, BTD, what books are you reading where that happens to often that you except it as a fantasy trope? I don't know that I've ever run into that in another book (and I read a lot of actual fantasy).

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Wait, so at the end of the book, if I understand that correctly,

Spoiler:

a guy hand holds a tarp and uses it as a parachute to survive a long fall?

I have to ask, BTD, what books are you reading where that happens to often that you except it as a fantasy trope? I don't know that I've ever run into that in another book (and I read a lot of actual fantasy).

Perhaps fantasy was the wrong word. But in a book where

Spoiler:

there is anti-matter, a Havard scholar going into the Vatican library alone, priests kidnapped and branded, a plane that can go from the US to Eurpoe in a half hour, etc...

my illusion of reality was gone. I was in the world of Angels & Demons, and with everything else going on, no that didn't bother me. I was also still caught up in my wtf moment and had to see the sequence of books to see if A&D was before or after DVC.