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Summary: One action packed Thriller
Review: I totally enjoyed this book. It seemed to grab me right away. I normally take about a week to read a book. With "The DaVinci Code" I couldn't put it down and I finnished it in two days. I will certainly put him on my must read list
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Summary: This is not the biggest crock of crap - this is the truth!!
Review: For those of you who love to bash the truth to serve your own delusion, wake up and smell reality - this is not a crock of crap - this is a great book and guess what? The history in this book can be independently verified by numerous sources, but obviously those sources are not the one's taught in your school - they are the sources of real research and discovery that no school would have the guts to teach because how could teachers explain that we have been shrouded from the truth for centuries and they have been willing participants in the lie because they are lazy. We have been lied to about religious "fact" to serve only the good of the "church", to ensure that their power will not go away. To uncover the truth, writers and researchers like Dan Brown have to fly in the face of what we have been taught for centuries and begin to awaken our poor "led by the nose" population and take chances like this to print the truth. So for those of you, who are so ignorant and are professional "followers", have fun in the god forsaken paper bag that you live in - because you'll never break out until you open your eyes.
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Summary: Perfection!
Review: A mix of Indian Jones and James Bond! It was a pleasure Mr. Brown. Please write more soon!
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Summary: Biggest crock of crap
Review: Amazon needs to develop a star rating system that lets you give a NEGATIVE amount of stars; this book truly deserves it.It has absolutely NO redeeming value in any sense. The writing is terrible; in the words of a critic who panned "Battlefield Earth"...A hundred monkeys with a hundered crayons could have come up with something more entertaining then this overbloated behemoth. The other thing I dislike about this book is that the Author writes a bunch of "historical" nonsense and tries to pass it off for truth! Any person with half a brain in their head who actually bothered to study history while in school could shoot down all of his "history" in seconds. I read a lot of historical fiction and enjoy it, but at least other authors don't take creative liscence with HISTORY itself. Just the characters and how they fit into the history. And this book is so blatantly Anti-Catholic it's offensive. If this book was about Islam or Buddism everyone would be pitching a hissy fit and demanding the tarring and feathering of the author. But because it's an attack on Catholicism it somehow makes it alright.
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Summary: Breaking The Da Vinci Code
Review: So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real.
Perhaps you've heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller has captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 32 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a one-hour ABC News special. Along the way, it has sparked debates about the legitimacy of Western and Christian history. While the ABC News feature focused on Brown's fascination with an alleged marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, The Da Vinci Code contains many more (equally dubious) claims about Christianity's historic origins and theological development. The central claim Brown's novel makes about Christianity is that "almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false." Why? Because of a single meeting of bishops in 325, at the city of Nicea in modern-day Turkey. There, argues Brown, church leaders who wanted to consolidate their power base (he calls this, anachronistically, "the Vatican" or "the Roman Catholic church") created a divine Christ and an infallible Scripture-both of them novelties that had never before existed among Christians. Watershed at Nicea
Brown is right about one thing (and not much more). In the course of Christian history, few events loom larger than the Council of Nicea in 325. When the newly converted Roman Emperor Constantine called bishops from around the world to present-day Turkey, the church had reached a theological crossroads. Led by an Alexandrian theologian named Arius, one school of thought argued that Jesus had undoubtedly been a remarkable leader, but he was not God in flesh. Arius proved an expert logician and master of extracting biblical proof texts that seemingly illustrated differences between Jesus and God, such as John 14:28: "the Father is greater than I." In essence, Arius argued that Jesus of Nazareth could not possibly share God the Father's unique divinity. In The Da Vinci Code, Brown apparently adopts Arius as his representative for all pre-Nicene Christianity. Referring to the Council of Nicea, Brown claims that "until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet ... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless." In reality, early Christians overwhelmingly worshipped Jesus Christ as their risen Savior and Lord. Before the church adopted comprehensive doctrinal creeds, early Christian leaders developed a set of instructional summaries of belief, termed the "Rule" or "Canon" of Faith, which affirmed this truth. To take one example, the canon of prominent second-century bishop Irenaeus took its cue from 1 Corinthians 8:6: "Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ."
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I tried to like this book; gave the author the benefit of the doubt all the way through, but at the end I was so disappointed. What a waste of paper! The characters were mediocre, the plot line drolled on and on, and the conclusion was anticlimatic with just plain silliness. It is obvious that this author has been scorned by the church, and this nonsensical and disconnected book is his revenge. I mean really, the French all upset about some kind of religious sex act? Like they even care about strange religious tendencies. As far as the Jesus/Mary line, just because the author wishes it to be true, doesn't make it so. Attacking religious traditions is so tired and transparent. This author preaches to the disgruntled choir to make a buck.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: This was one of the best books I have read. It was very informative and intriguing. It gave me a lot to think about. It opened me up to a secret society world I had no idea existed.
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Summary: Things you thought you knew...you will now know!
Review: Be taken into a world that has always been right in front of you. You have seen the things you are about to experience, but were never really explained to you. The world you have always known has now become the world of revelation. What if many things you considered in life to be true, were constructed to control half the world's population. How would you see things in life once you knew the truth? This fast paced fictional adventure will run you through a list of "factual information" (bibliographies included in book) about Secret Societies, Religious Sects, and the mysteries behind the most sought after quest of all time. The adventure will run you through Highly Intellectual Code Breaking, Murder, Deceit, and exciting revelations. This is where "Fact" meets Fiction and gives you the reader the opportunity to enjoy learning and revealing at an exponential rate.
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Summary: Let's dont get too hung up on good FICTION
Review: Yes folks, it's only FICTION. And it is good fiction, though I don't call it great fiction. Certainly, Dan Brown has an active imagination, and the first half of the book is explosive and compelling to read. But the adventure aspect of it gets a little old in the second half of the story, and I thought it ended in a wimper. When it comes to the theology aspects of the story, I prefer to side with the Apostle Paul's version of Christ, over Leonardo DaVinci (assuming Dan Brown is accurately characterizing DaVinci and others).
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Very grasping religious suspense. Dan Brow is my second best after Jean Christophe Grangé.
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