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Summary: No redeeming qualities whatsoever
Review: "The Da Vinci Code" is an incredibly bad book. It's badly plotted, the writing and dialogue are asinine beyond belief. It's the sort of book where the lead character burbles nonsensical, leaden exposition about the goddess figure in Medieval art to his accomplice as they're fleeing from the cops. Dan Brown isn't the first to rabbit on with this deathly boring claptrap about the Templars and Jesus and the Grail, etc., just the most recent. But neither he nor any of the other conspiracy-obsessed fools can tell us why, if the knowledge that these secret brotherhoods and societies possess is so "powerful", they're so impotent. If they actually knew anything, why don't they come out with and say it? And what difference would it make if yet another group came out with yet another religious theory? Throw it on the heap with the other 100,000,000 wacko theories about gods and messiahs and ressurections and Jesus and Vishnu and werewolves for all the difference it would make. "The Da Vinci Code" is nothing more than a shockingly bad airport novel. The fact that the author seems to take it seriously is no reason for anyone who actually cares about books and literature to do the same.
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Summary: A Good Read...
Review: I bought this book because I heard/read that it dealt with secrets of the Vatican, etc. I read it very quickly and found it to be fast-paced, full of action, you know, the whole nine yards. One thing I chuckle about is the fact that many people get their knickers in a twist when they read that a book is about how the Vatican has brainwashed billions of people over two thousand years. Relax...It is a book. No one ever said that this book is true...Dan Brown does so you will buy it and read it. I will read it again in a few months, knowing full well that I will enjoy it. In the end, I just say to...Read and enjoy.
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Summary: Poor Echo of Eco
Review: Brown's conspiracy has been cribbed from the Illuminati Trilogy and Umberto Eco's masterpiece Foucault's Pendulum. If you're under 25, read the Illuminati -- it's not nobel material, but it will blow your mind. Eco on the otherhand needs no introduction -- he is one of the foremost writers of our generation, and Foucault's Pendulum is at once gripping, astoundingly well written and steeped in every historical conspiracy. By contrast, Brown is but a dilettante.
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Summary: Yeah it is fiction but...
Review: The author keeps on insisting that it is based on fact. His references have been debunked over and over again by real bonified scholars. Besides all that. The writing is 3rd rate. It seems this forum is being used by authors to push their own work. Buyer beware!
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Summary: Engrossing
Review: Top notch historical thriller in the vein of Glenn Kleier's THE LAST DAY. Like THE LAST DAY, Brown's CODE is impossible to put down, concerns itself with religious malfeasance and intrigue, and is provocative to the point of controversy. I thoroughly enjoy well-researched, stimulating novels, and CODE does not disappoint. Highly recommended.
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Summary: An explosive concoction...
Review: Brown does a fantastic job integrating the mythical worlds of religion and art history in this brilliant thriller. Although the characterizations are more of a sketch than fully realized, they work remarkably well as a scaffolding for the *real* substance this book has to offer. Certainly his research has resonated, and caused all the zealots and religious whackos to come seething out of the woodwork like the worms they are. Feeling threatened, are we? Ultimately, it's the simple logic behind this piece that makes it so powerful, something almost completely missing from the foundations of modern religion.
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Summary: :::PoliticsForum.Com Review:::
Review: The author is a true Grandmaster. He manages to mingle a wide variety of facts and historical events along with artistic secrets into a wonderful work of fiction. Chances are you will learn more about the arts, Christianity and religion from this perfect masterpiece than from 4 years at a university. I applaud the author for this fine work. he is pure genius! Bravo! I read the book in 3 evenings because I was unable to put it down until I could barely keep my eyes open. Sincerely, Maximus Illuminati - Author of Islam Exposed P.S. Iti multumim foarte mult pentru ca ai sfirsit aceasta misiune! Acum este timpul sa citestin illuminati manifesto si cartea mortilor.
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Summary: People! Beware of "fiction" books full of half-truths...
Review: Those other one-star reviewers are right! This book is full of untruths. It occured to me that I've read other so-called "fiction" books full of untruths (and the even scarier half-truths), too. It's a conspiracy, for sure, being carried out by the liberal, leftist, academic elite. For example, I was reading this other "fiction" book called "The Lord of the Rings", and it occured to me that this Tolkien guy was just full of it. I mean, there's no such thing as Elves or Goblins, or, geez, Hobbits! Magic rings? Give me a break. He even goes so far as to include a map of this so-called "Middle Earth". Middle of what? I only know of one Earth, and it's the whole thing. I'm tellin' ya, that book was just full of out-and-out falsehoods. And *oy*, with the singing all the time, I mean give me a break! The nerve this guy has to fill a "fiction" book with untruths. I give it one star, and from now on I'm only reading true fiction!
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Summary: Hype over good story telling
Review: There are so many disappointments in this book, I honestly don't know where to start. The two main characters are boring to the point of tears. When it comes to emotion and action, the writer is forced to do it in description. The characters can't and don't speak like people on the brink of staggering discovery with danger at every turn. Instead, every time they open their mouths, I felt like I was sitting in a lecture room. All action, any energy the story had going for it came to a grinding stop. The writer made a point of beating us over the head that he was highly educated, but does that mean, he has to talk through the entire book like he's standing behind a lectern?
The next pot hole in this book is that if the names of the main characters had been removed from the pages, I wouldn't be able to tell which one was speaking because they both sound identical. They had all the depth of a wading pool. Martha Stewart expresses more taunt drama explaining how to boil water.
The writer has a lot to learn about conflict, action, and putting characters in danger. Each time the characters were in danger, or had a puzzle to figure out, the writer would explain how a character would be shocked, stomach turning, blood run cold, blah blah blah and drag it out for another paragraph to squeeze as much trite suspense as possible. And the way they got out of danger was so incredibly contrived as to be laughable.
And how many times do we have to be told about the feminine this or feminine that? It was clear that the writer was so much more interested in writing a history book than telling a story. Every new discovery side tracked the story while we got yet another lesson. While there is no end how bad I thought this book was, by now my opinion has been made.
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Summary: Posthumous character development
Review: A fun book with lots of twists and turns. I felt like I knew the "dead guy" better than all of those still alive.
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