My Life, Angels and Demons

I started reading this book when Bill Clinton went on a book tour promoting his memoir two years ago. Spanning 1000 pages with small font, My Life was dense and long. As I got deeper into the autobiography, I felt like I was inundated in inconsequential information so I stopped reading about half way through. Now, since my commute is about 30 minutes with traffic, I decided to hear Bill Clinton's own narration of the abridged version. The book went fast (only 6 CD's), and I was able to learn quite a bit from our ex-president without mindlessly turning pages. He recalled his experiences with grace and lucidity, and I was particularly surprised how eloquently he went over the whole Monica Lewinski "scandal." As an average person without the capability to remember thousands of pages of facts, I liked this version much better. A necessary read for every progressive without the patience of an historian.


Angels and Demons is Dan Brown's prequel to his worldwide bestseller The Da Vinci Code. In this adventure, the protagonist Robert Landon traverse through Vatican City and Rome to save the Catholic Church. The book started relatively slowly, up to about halfway through the book, not much happened other than the establishment of the history of the characters, CERN, the Illuminati, and the Vatican. But as the killings started, the story got more exciting, and the ending provided several exciting twists for the mystery lovers out there. Overall entertaining, the plot toward the end was as implausible as any 007 movie. Although not as popular as The Da Vinci Code, the styles were very similar. If you like any of Dan Brown's other works, you'll like this one.