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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I went to the house of my girlfriend's parents, and her mother had this book in the visitors room. I started reading it, and after a while I just could not let go of it. Her mother decided to go out and buy it for me after seeing how much I liked the book. I am not an avid reader and it is probably because I never read books as good as this. I fully recommend this one.
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Summary: Sacreligions, Maybe? Overrated, Yes!
Review: This bestseller by Dan Brown has Professor Robert Langdon and policewoman Sophie Noveau solving one puzzle after another in search of the answer to a great mystery that has been kept through the ages by people like leonardo Da Vinci and Victor Hugo. This novel reads like a text book, with poor characterization and tons of encyclopedia-like explanations of art and symbols.Brown blurs fact and fiction into a jumbled mess that ultimately strikes at the heart of the Catholic and Christian church. I don't know if its sacreligious because it is a novel and it does pay token acknowledgement to traditional Christian beliefs. The book's is its easy acceptance of the dark secret that the Da Vinci code supposedly hides. If that secret were so obviously true, it would be known by now. With just a few minutes of research on the internet, you can discover that most of Brown's premises are faulty. This would normally be okay in a fiction novel, but Brown does little to distinguish this book from a long narration on the history of art and symbols.
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Summary: Great page turner, but too many factual errors
Review: I enjoyed this book and read it in a single sitting. As page turning adventure with fun puzzles, it's great. However (and with only 3 stars, there must be a however), the book has three very irritating features. The least important, but most cringe-inducing is that Dan Brown gets lots of details, both minor and major, wrong. For example, GPS doesn't work indoors and most stick shifts don't have a park gear. A more serious flaw in the book is that even if you accept that the Church is founded on a deception foisted upon the world by Constantine, the author's constant polemics demanding a return to the female side of the divine and his blaming of all patriarchal beliefs in all religions on Christianity are distracting and slow the pace of the story. This might be OK if his digressions were interesting, but they repeat themselves and also fail to address the obvious questions raised about the other cult of Mary (mother of Jesus), which was so strong that when Mohammed accused Christians of Tri-theism he listed Mary as one of their 3 gods. There are several places in the book where I felt I was being preached at, and I just wanted to get on with the story. My final complaint is that toward the end, I began figuring out the puzzles about 2 pages ahead of the characters (for example, the cipher related to Newton was barely worthy of a crossword clue), which is in the books greatest crime. In all, it is a fun read, but it is far from perfect.
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Summary: Start Reading Now!
Review: A cryptic nailbitting masterpiece of the thriller genre - Dale Brown's words electrifies our interest and holds us to the very last word...a late night burner of a read.
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Summary: What's the hype????
Review: OK, so this seems to be "THE" book to read right now. And so, hearing the raves (although not from anyone I know personally), I went out and read this one. What a disappointment. The big flaw in this so-called thriller is that Brown doesn't let you in on the solution. He tells you only so much, giving you obscure clues that you could NEVER figure out, introducing clues at the last minute. And giving you an oh-so-pat ending that you feel like throwing the book across the room when you finish it. And the characters are incredibly dumb and unconvincing (a cryptologist that doesn't recognize DaVinci's backwards writing? Gimme a break!). Trust me: spend your time reading something more rewarding. Like, maybe, the National Enquirer?
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Summary: Absolutely Fabulous!
Review: The Da Vinci Code is absolutely the best book that I've read this year. The characters are so believable, the research so meticulous, the premise so strong that I had to keep reminding myself that it is FICTION. It definitely rocked my "cradle-Catholic" upbringing! I finished the book in one sitting, you probably will too!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I loved this book, but of course, I love historical fiction. I read it in like 48 hours because I just got into it. Afterwards, I had to go out and buy like 5 more books, researching different things he mentioned that interested me. Dan Brown knows his stuff! Definately recommended, all my friends love it too!
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Summary: Speed Reading made Easy
Review: This was a GREAT BOOK. Once I started, I couldn't put it down until 8 hours later when I got to the last page - a little disappointed that it was over, but glad that I had gone along for the ride. Mr. Brown gets the reader into the pattern of breaking codes and by the time the main characters are opening scrolls and secrets, the reader is trying to solve the mystery along with them. I'm only sorry I started with his last book, and not his first ... I'm glad he's all ready working on another Prof.Langdon story. He took just enough facts / blended them with fiction, and created a tale that made you want to help him with his research. This was definitely a good book to read on a rainy weekend ... I look forward to reading his other novels.
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Summary: For a best seller, this book is horrible
Review: Being a best seller, I expected a lot from the DaVinci Code. The premise of a code hidden in DaVinci's paintings relating to a secret dating back to Christ intgrigued me. Robert Langdon, a professor, and Sophie Noveou, a French Police Officer, spend the entire novel breaking one code after another in search of a religious secret, that if exposed, would ruin the Christian church. This book is bad for a couple of reasons. First, Langdon and Noveou are some of the most boring characters ever. All of the characters take back stage to Browns historical descriptions of art and codes and symbols. This book also earns one star because Brown it isn't that exciting. Take away the characters and the thin plot, and you have Brown writing about his opinions on the catholic church. Brown opens the book by telling that Opus Dei and the Priory of Scion really exist. The book is filled with so much truth that it is hard to know where the truth ends and fiction begins. But Brown writes everything as if it is true. This is obviously a novel but Brown probably believes the theory he writes about, or else is wanting to just make a lot of people mad. As a Christian, it didn't make me mad, just curious. I wondered if any of this book was true. This book is interesting, but not really a good novel.
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Summary: Borrow from a friend before buying
Review: This book is a slow read because it doesn't capture your attention. It throws out a lot of theory and conjecture and every chapter is an allusion to the next chapter. There is no mystery, no excitement, no wonder. By the time I finished the last painful pages of this tripe I wasn't in the least bit curious as to who the antagonist was or what his/her motive was. The book tries to make you rethink the history of Christianity and the role of the pope in the church but near the end it tells you what any educated reader should know: Take it with a grain of salt because it, like the bible, is open to interpretation.
The story starts out with some interesting facts that anyone with a minimal interest in art history or mathematics would have known. The hero and heroine of the book want you to know that they are supersmart and can solve any riddle or rhyme put before them. The characters are poorly introduced and I didn't feel like I could relate to them as people. Some chapters are 3 paragraphs long. If the chapters were strung along as a continuous story without all the white space and breaks the book would easily be half the size. I had more fun reading "Who Moved My Cheese" than this book.
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