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== [[Angels & Demons]] ==
* Improper use of the Italian language was noted by Italian readers, along with generally being wrong about things pertaining to Rome. ''{{smallcaps|[http://leggiamo.altervista.org/thriller_angeliedemoni.htm (Italian) Thriller Reviews]}}''
* Contrary to what the book claims, Anti-matter can't be used as a source of limitless energy due to it taking more energy to make than it produces. Someday, hopefully, but certainly not now. ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20080129234743/http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html {{smallcaps|CERN}}]''
** Not now, [[Perpetual Motion Machine|not ever]]. Energy does not work that way.
* No, CERN can't blow up the world whenever it wants like in the book. It doesn't have enough antimatter, for starters. ''[http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=68546 {{smallcaps|History.com}}]''
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** Also, unlike the film claims, anybody can be elected as pope, even a layman. (If a layman is elected, he has to be first ordained deacon, then priest, and then consecrated as bishop, after which he can take office.) ''[[wikipedia:Papal election#Acceptance and proclamation|{{smallcaps|Wikipedia}}]]''
** In the novel, it was the "electors present", not only the crowd, that cheered: all the cardinals were moved by the crowd to chant, and in doing so, gave their consent. The other two points are valid, however.
* The book maintains that CERN created the Internet, which was created by the USA's Department of Defense's DARPA military technology research organization. CERN created the World Wide Web, which is not the same thing. This is exceptionally odd since Brown got it right in ''[[Digital Fortress]]''. ''{{smallcaps|Pages 7 & 20–21 of Angels & Demons}}'', ''{{smallcaps|Niels Brügger's Web History (2010)}}''
== [[Deception Point]] ==
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