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Summary: Great fun, intriguing...
Review: I really enjoyed this book! It's a real page turner, and I learned a few things as well. He sometimes goes overboard with the "symbology" but it didn't take away from the book.
Recommended!
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Summary: A guilty pleasure
Review: My wife read this book first and enjoyed its mysteries, revelations and pacing, but was uncomforable with its portrayal of Christianity. I share her feelings, but we both agree the novel is worthwhile as a guilty pleasure. The book is cleverly and expertly done. The use of real historical organizations, such as the Priory of Sion, Opus Dei, and Knights Templar give it a serious, true-life sense. The fact that larger-than-life historical figures like da Vinci were involved with -- and even led -- The Priory of Sion gives it wonder. And author Dan Brown has cooked up a clever premise in which the foundation of Christianity would be shaken if the "truth" were known. And so the chase is on, with a symbologist, a cryptologist, and eventually a Royal historian solving riddles and rhymes in their search for the Holy Grail, with the French and eventually English authorities nipping at their heels as they are blamed for an increasing number of murders.But what starts out as a fascinating cerebral adventure with a near literary tone can't quite hold that highminded course. What commences as wine and filet mignon dwindles to cola and hamburger. Maybe that's what happens when you cross the channel. The richest parts of the book come when we are in the head of the protagonist, Robert Langdon -- especially at the beginning, when he sees a historical, even ancient, symbolism in practically every object that meets his eye. These roots of our now familiar symbols are fascinating. But when the chase is on and ongoing puzzles need to be solved, they become tedious and even simplistic. The "difficult" clue concerning Sir Isacc Newton and an orb? Duh! And the "unseen" bad guy was all too obvious. Plus, I don't really think the French and English police are as dumb, naive and comical as this book would lead you to believe. However, when Ron Howard and his "Brilliant Mind" team produce the movie, as I've read they will do, I'm sure a lot of these discrepancies will be ironed out. Hopefully, the movie will hold to that rich Mona Lisa atmosphere the book so promisingly begins with. I have faith. As for the attack on Christianity, when He was arrested Jesus told Peter to put up his sword. Because, if He needed to, He'd bring down legions of angels to kick butts. That's good enough for me. Meanwhile, everyone should enjoy The Da Vinci Code and take it for what it is -- a work of fiction built from elastic facts, like looking at clouds and seeing myriads of differing visions. Anyway, Langdon's true insights on symbols are worth the price of admission.
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Summary: A Book for the Masses
Review: This book is perfect for anyone that wants to get into reading. It is a sure page-turner that grabs you from the start. No patience is needed for reading it. There is constantly something exciting going on, which Brown accomplishes with his short chapters that end right after a small "bomb" is dropped on the reader. Most people will be pleased reading this book. There are many fascinating things and lessons to be learned from The Da Vinci Code. One is that there are many sides to a single story, and to never take history's word for what has really happened. I felt a bit of emptiness as I began to finish this book, I think mainly because I didn't know what to take as fact or fiction from what I had just read. However, there are many, many positives to this book, and if you can weed out everything else, you will walk away a happy, enlightened customer.
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Summary: Entertaining Reading
Review: I loved this book! When I read, I want to be totally involved with the story and the characters, and in this book, I was. It reminded me of James Patterson's book- The Jester, which was also very good. I only have time to read at night and want to be relaxed and entertained.I was also captured as I became more involved in this wonderful mystery. I thought it was a great read. I think you will enjoy it too.
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Summary: Fantastic Book, but do your own research
Review: A fantastic book, an easy read, and certainly thought-provoking. However, people should not make the mistake and take it as absolute truth, but do their own research. An interesting article is http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm Nevertheless, a highly entertaining and interesting book.
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Summary: THE CODE
Review: This is an amazing book. Very good to read and it catches your attention right from the begining. "The Da Vinci Code" is very intense that makes you read more, never stop and keep on reading it until you finish it. I recomend it to everybody, definetly the best decission for a book.
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Summary: Entertainment value only
Review: Three people recommended this book to me so with anticipation I read it over the course of a few days. It is an acceptable mystery that moves along although some of the dialog is amateurish or maybe just aimed at the poorly educated reader. There is quite a bit of repetition so that at points in the novel where I would normally have read very carefully I was able to quickly breeze through because I knew the same idea would be repeated several times in the next few pages. The symbolism uses such loose associations that it is difficult to believe if not downright scary that people buy into it so thoroughly. Finally as only a wedding, funeral, and holiday churchgoer the ideas about the early days of Christianity were of little interest. When the movie is released, I will be sitting at home reading something more thought provoking.
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Summary: The Da Vinci Code
Review: This book is so good. There are some interesting interpretations of famous art, too. It's a really fun read.
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Summary: Fast paced and fun
Review: This was a page turner, a murder mystery with an historic plot that will keep your attention throughout. The only fault was the end seemed a little hastily written, like the author ran out of time and had to feed you a condensed version to get it to his publisher on time! I still give it 5 stars!
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Summary: Best Book I've Read In Years
Review: I kept putting off reading this book, even though I had heard all the hype. Finally, my husband read it and loved it, so I decided I'd give it a try. Wow. I picked it up and didn't put it down until 5 hours later. I didn't want to go to work the next day because I wanted to finish reading!! I won't go over the plot line again - that has already been done. This was just so well written - fresh material, fast moving plot, the various threads all get tied up in the end, but not in a pat, disappointing way, but in a way that still satisfies the reader. I can't wait to read "Deception Point" and "Angels & Demons"!
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