Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon #1) - (English Edition)

Dan Brown

Atria Books

2005

736 páginas

1d 0h 32m

ISBN-10: B000FBJFSM

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy—the Catholic Church.

Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.

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Fiquei um pouco arredia com o livro, visto que tinha me apaixonado por Codigo da Vinci, mas conforme fui lendo, a historia me envolvia e o final me surpreendeu.

"Às vezes, a revelação divina significa simplesmente adaptar seu cérebro para escutar o que seu coração já sabe".

"Cada um de nós é um Deus, dissera Buda. Cada um de nós sabe tudo. Precisamos apenas abrir nossas mentes para escutar nossa sabedoria"

"Um truque filosófico budista. Em vez de pedir à sua mente para procurar uma solução para um desafio potencialmente impossível, Vittoria pedia-lhe que apenas se lembrasse da solução. O pressuposto de que sabia a resposta criava a disposição mental de que a resposta deveria existir, eliminando assim o conceito paralisante de desesperança".