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Summary: EDGE OF YOUR SEAT - EVERY PAGE
Review: AN AWESOME THRILLER AND MYSTERY. A WONDERFUL READ, EVEN FOR NON READERS. FULL OF RICH DETAIL AND JUST A GREAT STORY. 2-4 PAGE CHAPTERS MAKE IT EASY TO PICK UP AND PUT DOWN OFTER.......BUT GOOD LUCK WITH EVER PUTTING IT DOWN ONCE YOU START !
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Summary: Read till dawn
Review: This book was so fascinating and compelling that I didn't go to sleep at all last night, staying up instead to finish the book in one sitting. The storytelling is nothing short of superb with exquisite attention to detail and factual research. The book is a masterpiece and I strongly suggest you stop everything and buy this book immediately!
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Summary: Wonderful Read
Review: I just finished reading this novel and I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I could not put this book down. I thought it was very provocative and insightful. I am also a Christian, but I am sufficiently secure in my beliefs to understand this is a work of fiction, and it should be taken as so. If you are not mature enough to read a book that might challenge your belief system, or give you an alternate perspective to spirituality, stay away from this genre. This is a mystery novel wrapped around a very interesting historical subject. I have recommended this book to many people and they all have loved it.
Happy reading!
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Summary: A Stunning, Well Researched, Beautiful Book !!
Review: Through a very ingenious mystery plot, Dan Brown tries to present the complex roots of modern Christianity. The book makes one wonder why women were cast out of most modern religions, so it is not the "normal" dogma that we are used to, and may explain some of the more negative & emotional reviews.Contrary to those reviews, this book is NOT an anti-religion tome. It celebrates and is very respectful of human spirituality, in all its forms. It tries to explain, in a historical context, how religions came to be what they are today. The end is particularly wonderful, with a final analysis that should leave everyone feeling good about their beliefs, whatever they are. BUT, let me emphasize, The Da Vinci Code it isn't *just* about religion -- it is also a thrilling detective story. Despite a great opening page, I do agree that the beginning is just a tiny bit slow, but is more than compensated for, later on. It is so well written, that I could not figure out who the "bad guy" was even at the very end! Dan Brown weaves a twisting and turning plot that finishes elegantly, without lowering itself to explaining a bunch of loose ends, in the final chapter! I can't wait for the movie to come out!
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Summary: Much better books are out there.
Review: After hearing a friend rave about how complex and interesting this book was, I decided to sit down and read it. Considering that there are so many great books around with similar concepts, this was pretty much a waste of time. I would much rather have spent the time rereading Eco's "Name of the Rose" or Wilton Bernhardt's "Gospel," both of which pull off the religious-mystery concept far, far better than this book.
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Summary: Venus Pentacle in Double Time
Review: A fun read, and a tremendous stylistic improvement over his earlier, mind-numbing "Digital Fortress", which was too reminiscent of the (very) early Michener. But, inexcusable factual errors show up a bit too early; on page 36, read: "As a young astronomy student, Langdon had been stunned to learn the planet Venus traced a perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every four years." Not so! The Venus synodic cycle of five (5) equidistant occultations occuring each 584 days, or 1.6 years, takes eight (8) years to complete -- 8/5 = 1.6, approximating the mathematical ratio 1.618, labelled Phi, also known as the "Golden Mean"... But it is a fun read.
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Summary: A rapturous web of words
Review: This is in the same vein as "The Crying of Lot 49" but without Pynchon's sought-after style. Nevertheless, "The da Vinci Code" delivers a page-turning, mind-churning bonanza. Brown's passion for detail is admirable, but his research is less than superior. Nevertheless, one delves not only into a captivating adventure but also an intellectual spree. The connections between different information a la any mystery novel is especially eye-raising and interesting. Albeit the denoument is somewhat lacking, the rest of the action definitely makes up for it. Hence the 5 stars...
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Summary: NO DOZE
Review: This is caffiene times ten. You won't get a nights sleep once you crack this book open because you won't be able to put it down until your done. Also recommended: The Little Guide To Happiness.
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Summary: The Last Supper
Review: I enjoyed the book immensely. Just a comment on the review from "A reader from Evergreen, CO, United States": Please look carefully at Leonardo's painting of The Last Supper. To the left of Mary Magdalene/John we see Saint Peter with a furious visage and a KNIFE (!) in his right hand. His left hand is making a gesture of "I'll slice his/her throat!" across the throat of that figure of Mary/John. It's there to see -- Leonardo painted it that way. There is more to that painting than meets the eye -- and Dan Brown's book wrote it that way --saying the equivalent of "There's more in heaven and earth than in your history . . ."
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Summary: Don't bother with this book - read Umberto Eco instead!!
Review: I agree with the reader from Evergreen, CO - if you're going to write a book like this, do your homework first! I'm not an art history scholar, but I have two degrees in medieval history. The inaccuracy of the author's assertions about almost every historical reference I ran across in this book was appalling! I too tried to have fun with the story, but the bad research was so distracting that I never truly engaged in the book. If you are interested in reading a great book that also deals in similar subjects, go to the master - Umberto Eco - and read Foucault's Pendulum. Eco's breadth of knowledge is vast, and he deftly navigates not only history, but philosophy, theology, semiotics, philology, etc. and weaves them seamlessly into a captivating plot with 3-dimensional characters.
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