{"id":300,"date":"2008-10-07T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-10-07T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T17:23:00","slug":"angels-demons-by-dan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/10\/angels-demons-by-dan-brown.html","title":{"rendered":"Angels &amp; Demons by Dan Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the reviews on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/074349346X\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Angels &#038; Demons<\/a> on Amazon and they all agree regardless of how many stars they assigned: It&#8217;s an exciting page turner with little redeeming value.  This is not a book that makes you go &#8220;hmmmm&#8221; but it&#8217;s a book that makes you keep reading.  Almost 500 pages and I think I read it in three days, so there you go.<\/p>\n<p>As far as plausibility, it seemed no better or worse than The DaVinici Code.  I&#8217;m not a religious person so I&#8217;m able to look at the religious details the same way I would if they were medical details.  As long as I can follow the point, I&#8217;ll suspend disbelief with regard to the accuracy.  <\/p>\n<p>I did guess &#8220;whodunnit&#8221; almost immediately but Dan Brown got me mixed up enough to doubt myself.  That&#8217;s really the leading characteristic of a good mystery writer.  The solution has got to plausibly match the clues presented but can&#8217;t be obvious.  One good way to do that is to arouse suspicion early and then divert it.  Once the reader has considered and dismissed a suspect, the author is freer to play with his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the reviews on Angels &#038; Demons on Amazon and they all agree regardless of how many stars they assigned: It&#8217;s an exciting page turner with little redeeming value. This is not a book that makes you go &#8220;hmmmm&#8221; but it&#8217;s a book that makes you keep reading. Almost 500 pages and I think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}