Angels & Demons

[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).

[Kevy Baby]

Yes Alex, that was what happened.

The problem with this element is that it is so farcical that it is very disruptive to the story line. While the book is fiction, it is not a fantasy novel. Putting that element in was like injecting a gnome with magical powers into the middle of a Tom Clancy book.

[jdramj]

I still enjoyed reading the book, regardless. I would love to visit the places mentioned in the book, and it is fun to ponder such fancilful things as a super secret scientist commune and such, even though there is no shred of truth to them. It is fun to just let my mind wander by getting sucked in a book like that after dealing with 4 kids and their homework and laundry and meals and my job....etc...

[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.

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

While the book is fiction, it is not a fantasy novel. Putting that element in was like injecting a gnome with magical powers into the middle of a Tom Clancy book.

Isn't Patriot Games full of leprechauns?