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Summary: Nice coverage of facts, little or no message at all
Review: Being a believer of Yaweh and Christ, but of no religion at all, I was interested in this book to learn how the non-christians look at the Jesus affair. I found it to be a very interesting novel with a nice amount of facts and creation of pseudo-facts by mere speculation using the real data. Good, light style makes this book an easy reading. But in some point, the plot loses itself in an ultimate try to end the story with a concience-rinse that reminds me of Pilatos hand washing. The author seems to get scared of his own story and pretends to build a finale that results in an excuse to those believers and christians that might result offended by its nature. If he went so far, why get back at the end and write a hollywoodesque end? My recommendation: read it, take the knowledge you find useful (like phi number, symbols, cryptology), then throw away the babble you confirm as such and go on. And don't tell my over-religious mom I've read it!!
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Summary: Jesus and Mary Have a Baby? Say What?!
Review: Yes, that is the fantastic premise of The DaVinci Code. Dan Brown very cleverly mingles fact with fiction to create a highly suspenseful thriller about a super secret society dedicated to protecting an explosive revelation about Jesus and his relationship with Mary Magdalene. But the incredible fascination over whether the premise of this work of fiction is true is very disturbing. It's just a story, folks. In the same way that the Left Behind series is nothing but a highly dubious fictionalized "prediction" of the Apocalypse, the DaVinci Code is just a fun read when your brain is tired. But don't make anything more of it than that. Please.
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Summary: A Fun, Quick Read
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it in a weekend. It was like an Indiana Jones movie in that it's this wild adventure on a quest for sacred things. Don't get tripped up by the history. A lot of negative reviews are saying the author got it wrong. Well, this is a work of fiction, based on some historical facts and events. It says quite clearly at the beginning of the book what is fact -- the religious groups and the architecture. Don't get wrapped up in fact vs. fiction, just enjoy a fun, interesting story that might actually make you go, "hm...?" at the end.
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Summary: The Da Vinci Code
Review: Fun reading, addictive fiction (though the prose and style leave much to be desired), if it were not for Brown's claim that all facts, rituals, etc are "accurate". Oh my! Umberto Eco has done way better in entertaining the reader while being historically accurate at the same time. Brown smuggles crackpot history for facts, along the worse Hollywood style. So be it... I do not recommed this book to anyone interested in learning rather than being entertained.
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Summary: Interesting concept, but boring!!
Review: This was by far the worst of Brown's books. Angels & Demons is a much better story. Although I found the concept interesting, there was very little suspense in the book, and a disappointing ending. If you have the "FACTS", spit them out. What I've found interesting is the way Brown in all of his previous books let the reader almost believe the "conspiracy" then revealed it for what it was, a BIG HOAX! However in DaVinci, he changes his patented ending and leaves these cleverly disguised 1/2 truths as "Facts". Why the change in approach? Does he really want us to believe the ultimate conspiracy? I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the other books, but, his agenda came through on this one and I'm extremely disturbed. I hope that most people understand that a lot (maybe most) of the "FACTS" are not accurate (see http://www.answers.org/issues/davincicode.html). Next time, Mr. Brown, please get your facts straight; your credibility is now being questioned. Maybe now I need to explore how much was accurate in Angels & Demons. I also found interesting the review below about the inaccurate descriptions of Paris.
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Summary: Read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" instead
Review: I'm not normally into paperback thrillers, but thought I'd give this particular book a go since I'm a bit of a (make that "lot of a") conspiracy/Fortean/Knights-Templars-are-the-Masons nut. As an introduction to said conspiracy theories surrounding Da Vinci, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Templars, it's a quick read, though the author takes liberties with the original theories themselves (although if you don't believe any of the theories in the first place, this is hardly criticism). As a thriller, it's just dull. The lead characters spend their time running/driving from one place to another, with their enemies in hot pursuit (think Penelope Pitstop and the Hooded Claw). The characters are immemorable, and just mouthpieces for expositionary lumps of the above theories. The enemies come across as comical rather than forbidding, which they should be; it seems strange that a conspiracy that has some of the leading scientists and thinkers in world history at its heart only has a bunch of losers to oppose it (actually, there's not even enough of them to quantify as a "bunch"). (...)
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Summary: the davinci code Dan Broew
Review: THis pdf file DID NOT WORK FOR ME IT WONT PRINT OR READ ITSELF WORTHLESS
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Summary: 5 stars from this English teacher!
Review: Dan Brown tells an incredible story that cleverly intertwines fact and fiction in a novel that keeps you spellbound.
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Summary: Hokum
Review: As an English teacher, people always want to tell me what they've been reading as of late. Many, MANY people offered up that "The Da Vinci Code" is sheer brilliance, and could not be put down. Several, in fact, testified that they haven't read a book cover-to-cover in decades, until this novel entered their lives. Is that something to brag about? This novel was written for somebody who does not enjoy reading anything with substance. It is the literary equivalent of a poorly written action TV show. Hence, it keeps the attention of preteens and dullards, while ignoring character development. All three of the 'major' characters in this novel are simply named different things. They all act basically the same, and nowhere does the protagonist Robert Langdon say or do anything befitting a 'renowned Harvard symbologist." This novel is just such claptrap. It's depressing, because there was a time that Americans could follow something that had a little depth to it. Should I be glad that Americans are reading at all? To tell the truth, not if it's this filth. A poorly told story cannot be compensated because it is flashy or has shocking ideas about religion. It's true that I could not put this book down...for at least the two hours it took to read. How can a 500 page book take so little time to read unless it has absolutely no serious content. Stick it in the children's literature section. Just don't tell most adults that they have the equivalent intelligences of American children fifty years ago.
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Summary: Amazing...
Review: What is amazing about this book is that it actually made its way into print and then was received as an intelligent work. Having lived in Paris, I can vouch that the descriptions of that city bear no relation to reality. The supposedly intelligent characters spend most of their time gasping in amazement over the obvious. The presumed history is anything but, and even the premise of the book, lifted freely from the Rennes-le-Chateau enigma in southern France, has been deformed beyond recognition. And lastly, the book is a rather large slur against Catholicism, painting the Church of Rome as alternately incompetent and psychopathic. I suppose that the book would not have annoyed me so much had it not come so highly recommended, and had not the author suggested that his work was factually accurate. I'm sorry to say it (I can't recall every giving a book one star), but at nearly every level, this book is just so much schlock.
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