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Summary: Not the best but worth reading
Review: It seems most people love it or hate it, but I would say it's somewhere in between. The novel is a great thriller and kept me reading on, particularly for a good handful of riddles to keep us thinking. The highly-researched mystery of the Grail is a good introduction to people less familiar with the historical theories on early Christianity and even leaves a good start for how to do more research on the subject.Certainly, it is not flawlessly written- Dan Brown insists on repeating information rather than trusting the reader to catch everything the first time and is unfortunately fond of cliches. Still, the fast pace and intriguing treasure hunt made up for it all.
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Summary: Falls a little short
Review: I really enjoyed the book's premise and set up during the first half, but the last half was a bit of a let down. I actually found myself correctly guessing some of the clues to riddles chapters before the characters did - and I have no pedigree in mathematics, religion, or code breaking! Not to mention some of the plot twists that seem rather borrowed. I had that sinking feeling of knowing exactly where the story was headed, pages before I got there. The characters were bland, and the author could have used several hundred more pages on character development. I frankly didn't care all that much about these characters. Given the public's general ignorance about history, I'm both hopeful and wary about the popularity of this book. Hopeful that people get interested in the underlying history and do their OWN research, but wary that they may take this fictional work as historical fact. Also, I'm not all that religious, but couldn't help feeling that the author has one hell of an axe to grind with the Church. Clearly, he is not a fan. I imagine devout Catholics would have problems with this book.
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Summary: Great mystery about truth of Jesus, Last Supper
Review: In a nutshell the book is about a massive coverup by the Church, i.e. Christians and in particular the Catholic Church. Constantine the Great apparently and conveniently decided to leave out New Testament books in which Jesus was portrayed as a mere mortal. Da Vinci and others believed this and sent signals of their beliefs as code in paintings, music, etc. For example, look at the Last Supper painting by Da Vinci. The disciple sitting to right of Jesus surely looks like a woman, not John. Who is this person according to Da Vinci? None other than Mary Magdelene! Furthermore, Da Vinci and many others believed Mary was the wife of Jesus and bore his (their) child. What's amazing is that author brown backs up these beliefs with historical facts. I didn't believe it myself at first, but do as I did...go to google and do a search on photos of the recent restoration of da Vinci's Last Supper. Look at the so called man sitting to right of Jesus (left when looking at print). That is NOT a man, that is a WOMAN sitting next to Jesus.
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Summary: A Dreadful, Dreadful Book
Review: I picked up this book after hearing a lot of hype about it, and it proved once again that you should not believe everything you hear. While the book has an intriguing premise, it is one an altogether original one nor does Dan Brown make it very interesting. His characters are not very interesting, and they don't seem especially bright for people with supposedly "brilliant minds" (when the reader is a few chapters ahead of the characters in a suspence...things are pretty bad). All in all, this was a poorly written book with poorly drawn characters with a plot we've all read before. Find something else to read.
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Summary: The Da Vinci Code
Review: I found this book to be deceptive, pandering to our incessant search for moral loopholes. The author has taken old myths and repackaged them for a reading public that has very little experience with history. The melding of fact and fiction was clever and misleading, leaving us breathless with anticipation for the next tricky twist. If you read this, please do yourself the service of investigating the fact/fiction that serves as the base for this novel.
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Summary: Read the review I can't sum it up in a sentence...
Review: This book will spark a good conspiracy theory and like most of the 4.3 million readers of this book you'll like it too....First off great book very well written - great plot - and a very original story - the climax was good but if you read it throughly (as the book makes you) you kinda of figure it out..You don't figure out the ending until its too late (but the whole name change was a given). I was dumbfounded to find that the answer all along was given in his draft. I must say that there is alot of facts especially about christianity, and secret societies in the book....Which of course this is a novel but he seperates them very very well. Some people said this book is very anti-catholic - which even though I am not, I did think so until the last 3-4 chapters where well I don't want to give it a way of course but I will say not so much so... Lastly you can buy it at overstock.com for $12.00 or you could a week ago.....Enjoy!
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Summary: talk about your "holey grail"
Review: There are major holes in Brown's grail conspiracy and don't even get me started on the plot of this amateurish novel. It reads like a novelization of a screenplay. So why all of the enthusiasm? It plays to the bigot in all of us. Bravo Mr. Brown you have managed to bring out the very worst element in human nature and make a buck while you are at it. I suppose now racism, antisemitism, sexism can all be considered fair game for mercenary writers everywhere.
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Summary: Da Vinci Con!
Review: Alright besides his ignorance and complet absurdities this guys makes in this illogical and inaccurate story, he blantly shows his stupidity in stating that the dead sea scrolls were discovered in the 1950s. Well every 6th grader knows that they were actually discovered in 1947, now if he can get a basic fact incorrect, how can the rest of his "facts" be correct?
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Summary: Clever and entertaining
Review: Whatever my other thoughts of the book are, this is definately a page-turner. It's easy to get caught up in the thriller aspect and Dan Brown obviously had his eye on Hollywood as he wrote. I liked the way he wrapped ideas (some I knew of, some I didn't) as part of the story. He has a message which he delivered in an entertaining way. I disliked the more obvious storyline cliches. But I was always aware of the blaring question. When did the characters sleep?!
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Summary: Oh the almighty buck
Review: I am not a Catholic. I don't even have any close friends who are active Catholics, but this is too much. The only reason other writers could give this book praise is because of its mercenary value. Every writer would love to turn a trick like this one. Runaway best seller, movie deal. You could retire and write some good stuff. Fortunately most respectable writers have more integrity than Mr. Brown and would not stoop to this level. The writing is junk. The controversy is junk history. Brown saw an opportunity to take advantage of the current anti-Catholic sentiment and jumped on it. I'm sure he is laughing all the way to the bank.
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