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Summary: A good page-turner
Review: This book is an entertaining thriller, a real page-turner. It's enjoyable, a good read if you take it as such. And since it came out, it's been wildly popular. Some of its strengths: It has one cliff-hanging scene after another. It has colorful characters, even if it lacks any deep character development. Except for a brief epilogue, all the action takes place over a 24-hour period, and most of that in the course of one sleepless night. Important scenes are on every tourist's map--notably the Louvre in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London--and some are in less well known but equally accessible tourist stops. Previous visitors will recognize the descriptions, and I'm sure the book will inspire new visitors to conduct their own investigations. (It's happened before: "Angela's Ashes" brought the tourists to Limerick in Ireland; the Brother Caedfeld mysteries brought them to Shrewsbury in England; and so on.) There also is some interesting art history and interpretation. And the book is full of puzzles and riddles, some on the surface, some more deeply buried, some solved in the text, and some left to the reader to find and solve on his/her own.But this omits the most sensational element of the book. I don't want to give too much away. But here's a hint. One of the key characters is a Sir Leigh Teabing. And along the way, the book mentions a book, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh. Get it?
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Summary: Annoying
Review: The minute I knew who the knight was, the "orb" was obvious, but I had to spend the next 50 pages reading about a "Harvard professor" and a police cryptolgist who were not readily able to figure it out. While that ought to be enough, I would also mention that the alleged right/left masculine/feminine equation is factually inaccurate. This book has pretenses of being intellectual and clever, but the characters are shallow, the plot not unpredictable and the pretense somewhat outrageous. I am not catholic so that aspect of it did not offend me. One might read Umberto Eco, Phillip Kerr or others instead.
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Summary: Hugely disappointing
Review: I'd heard about this book from many reputable sources and was looking forward to diving into what I hoped would be an intelligent thriller. What I discovered was a trite and predictable novel offering little suspense or insight into its subject -- even the pacing was forced. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but this wasn't even a decent read. I just don't understand the hype.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I heard about this book on an AM news show and thought that it sounded interesting. This book was fantastic! It makes you think about everything you ever learned in Church. I could not put it down. I stayed up on a Sunday night till after midnight just so I finish it. A great read!
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Summary: Loved it
Review: Don't start this book late one night and expect to be able to close it up and go to sleep any time soon.It's a great book, full of fascinating historical information plus a cool plot and lots of fun codes-and-word games. Silas the albino monk is one of the more interesting "is he good or is he bad or is he crazy or is he simply misguided?" characters I have read in quite a while.
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Summary: Best Mother's Day gift
Review: I received the Da Vinci code several weeks ago but with limited reading time, held off until this Mother's Day to take my "day off" to read. What a wonderful gift. Though a thriller, a genre I love, the book was exceedingly well written and a page turner from the first to last. Brown's exhaustive research is well balanced and informative. The ultimate gift however was the underlying theme of the necessary balance between the feminine and masculine. Thank you Mr. Brown.
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Summary: Histroy and and Great Story
Review: This is an exceptional read. For anyone who loves history and conspiracy book this is the ultamite story for you. I can't say enough about this book I am going out today to buy all his other works in hopes there half as good. I bought this book yesterday and wasn't able to put it down until I finished it. I want to say so much about this book but don't want to devulge any of the book to ruin it for you. GO BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Dan, Dan, Dan...
Review: I finished the book hoping for a redeeming conclusion. It never came. Wild and controversial data concerning Christ, Da Vinci and anything sacred is peppered haphazardly throughout the book (a bibliography would be nice for verification of claims). Fellow believers, be warned... as a Christian woman, it was an offensive and painful read. I will be praying for you, Dan Brown.
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Summary: Good read, much fun
Review: The first 180 pages are great, then the middle becomes a little contrived, you ever see on of those movies, where they throw so many twists in it pisses you off? Well there are a good 80 pages of that in this book, but he wraps it up delicately in the end. I enjoyed immensely and overall was very satisfied.
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Summary: A Fantastic Trip
Review: Dan Brown has written the best mystery/thriller I've read in years. As we follow Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon on his journey beginning at the Louvre with a mysterious death. His need to solve the crime takes us on a fabulous journey through historical places and works of art. The fantastic research of the author reinforces the plot and keeps book's pages turning.
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