Compared to The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's Angels and Demons plays a different, less sexy theme: the conflict between science and religion (specifically, between cosmology and Catholicism). But it uses the same instruments: a withering but well-whisked blend of fact, history, twisted tales, misinformation, anachronisms, and downright fabrications.
The sheer weight of details creates a sense of documented history, so readers/viewers might mistake the far-fetched fable for a true description of Catholicism, much as many mistook The Godfather for a mafia portrait or saw Citizen Kane for a Hearst biopic. In his power to persuade the gullible, Brown is heir to the Orson Welles who broadcast War of the Worlds.
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