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Summary: Couldn't put it down! (to be cliche)
Review: I am a big mystery lover. I love the kind of book where one thing leads to another, and you never know what the next twist is going to be. If you like that kind of book, you'll LOVE this one. Also, i am VERY MUCH NOT a history buff, but there was just something about the history of the paintings and such in this book, that i was captivated. It normally takes me 2 weeks to finish a book, but i finished this one in 2 days! i would strongly recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, history, or just a good adventure. This is a ride you won't forget anytime soon. Enjoy!!!!
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: Dan Brown's masterful new offering, The Da Vinci Code, is an intellectually stimulating and pulse-quickening triumph. The combination of completley unanticipated plot twists, fascinating artistic and historical facts, and the stunning manner in which Mr. Brown interweaves and interprets them is a monumental achievement. It is truly a rare offering that is both highly readable, educational, and extremely addictive.This is a book that should appeal to anyone looking for a rare item: a thrilling page-turner that is both accessible to anyone but that does not insult anyone's intelligence. It will pump you full of adrenaline and knowledge. The Da Vinci Code will be the book that everyone is talking about for great reasons.
If they havent already! Congrats Mr. Brown, your book was a pleasure to read!
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Summary: Bait and Switch
Review: I was given this book by a friend and had heard nothing about it. I took it at face value that it was a "murder mystery". The first third of the book delivered as expected. The set up, the plot, the intrigue all pulled me through page after page, about midway through the reading the plot started veering off into a religious agenda. The last half of the book was a sorry disappointment. The "mystery" aspect was completely replaced with the religious overtones. It ended in a muddled hash that was unsatisfying either from a religious or intrigue point of view. I would not recommend.
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Summary: Page-Turner Delight!
Review: This novel totally captivated me. From the moment I unwrapped it after ordering it from Amazon.com, I was sucked into the story. It is a relentlessly well-told story. I read the first 25 pages standing up in the kitchen, before moving to the living room where I was held hostage by this gripping tale. I was just in the mood for a good, plot-driven book. And this novel delivers. Certainly do yourself a favor and buy this book! Also highly recommended: East Of Eden by Steinbeck, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: From the beginning to the end, THE DA VINCI CODE grabs your attention and never lets go. It is a gripping tale of a man and a women who have never met before but are brought together by the mysterious death of a very important man. The two are takin on a ride of their lives as they try to solve mysteries throughout the whole book. The ending of this book was outstanding with an amazing twist that I would have never guessed would happen. THE DA VINCI CODE was so good that it took me only two days to read all 454 pages of it.
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Summary: GREAT NOVEL
Review: Extremely entertaining and informative - the anagrams and riddles blew me away, and the plot twists at the end were fantastic
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Summary: Interesting subject, weak writing
Review: This book is to Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" as a microwaved corn dog is to a five course meal with matched wines. The corn dog's quicker, but you'll enjoy the meal more. Hack-iest writing device: I counted at least FIVE CHAPTERS that ended with "...and (so-and-so) was so amazed, they couldn't begin to believe what they saw."
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Summary: Dan Brown and Oliver Stone
Review: Dan Brown is to Da Vinci what Oliver Stone is to John Kennedy's assassination, i.e., a purveyor of pure fiction for the sake of self enrichment. As for the suggestion of a reviewer to read Beauseigneur's Christ Clone Trilogy in ADDITION to Da Vinci, I say read Christ Clone INSTEAD.
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Summary: Enjoyable malarkey
Review: As a Holy Grail adventure, this book is every bit as entertaining as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," though maybe not quite as good as "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." As scholarship, though --- weeeeeell, put it this way: Da Vinci is not Leonardo's name. It's the description of where he came from. Calling him "Da Vinci" is rather like those scenes in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in which the time-traveling heroes address Billy the Kid as "Mr. The Kid." Still, if you can accept the existence of an alternative universe in which serious art historians refer to "Da Vinci" and Harvard pays people good money to teach new-age "Symbology" and French scholars leave elaborate paper-chase clues in doggerell English verse, then this is an enjoyable if totally improbable thriller. (A sedentary, bookish man can go without sleep for 48 hours and still outwit the most sophisticated law-enforcement agencies in Europe?????) But I do hope that people who read this book won't believe that Mary Magdalene was "the Holy Grail," generally regarded as a crackpot theory, or that the tomb of Mary Magdalene can be found where the book claims it can, which will be a major headache for the poor custodians who supervise that actual location. I won't give away any more of the plot, except to say that if you know Roger Ebert's "law of character economy" you will be able to figure out who the mysterious master-mind is well before the end. But if you want to read a REALLY scholarly (albeit deadly dull) novel on themes like the Holy Grail, the Goddess, and the Knights Templar, read "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
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Summary: A high speed romp!
Review: A high-speed romp that uses elements from history for the clues. This one was hard to put down. Found myself pulling out my old art history textbooks to look at details from paintings. Lots of fun - thumbs up on this one!
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