I finished Angels and Demons by Dan Brown a couple nights ago– not a bad suspense / mystery novel, I’ll say that much. While there were a number of little things that nagged me, the most annoying aspect was the breadth-without-depth phenomenon which often befalls authors attempting to write about areas of study well outside their reach. As an example, anyone who has taken any college level bioethics course would gag when reading the purportedly moving and awe-inspiring orations on science vs. morality delivered by the camerlengo or, even worse, the third-person narrative voice. Certain plot elements were basically a rehash of The Da Vinci Code (or rather, vice versa), and the romance element again stuck out like a sore second nose. Nonetheless, the book was able to keep my interest till the end.