Rating: 
Summary: you MUST simply read this book...
Review: Okay, Mr. Brown, keeps upping himself with each successive novel. This is a book not to be missed. I dare you to put this book down once you start reading. It starts with a gruesome death in the Louvre and continues with an unfolding mystery that spans continents, centuries, and will blow away your conceptions about the "accepted" histories of art and religion. This book deserves to be a major bestseller! (And don't forget to read all his other books, too!)--James Rollins
Rating: 
Summary: Oh gee, not this again.
Review: How many times is this tiresome tale going to be told? The Jesus and Mary Magdalene story has been fiction fodder since Holy Grail Holy Blood back in the 80s back then it was hot stuff and considered controversial today the whole idea just rates a roll of the eyes.
Now, to the main point. Is the book good? Yeah, Dan Brown is a pretty good writer but the story--the only reason a fiction book exists, right?---is so lame that I couldn't enjoy it. The three stars is simply due to Brown's talent.
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic
Review: This book is amazing, I haven't finished it yet so I'm hoping it continues this way, but if you have the chance to read it, DO.
Rating:
Summary: In a word - FANTASTIC!
Review: This book grips you from the first page. It keeps you in suspense, with many twists and turns, right until the end. The author's vast knowledge of religion and art history certainly lend to the suspense and makes The Da Vinci Code stand out from other books in this genre. Have an art history book on hand when you read it - and maybe a bible and the Internet, too. Have fun!
Rating: 
Summary: Dense and disappointing
Review: There's far too much math, codes and cryptology, art history, and religious history in this book, and far too little thriller. The writing is pedestrian, and the characterization is nil. That said, the premise is very intriguing -- but unfortunately the first review, above, gives away the big secret! So you lose that suspense -- you already know what they're going to find out. So I'm mixed about this novel. The author is clearly smart, and it's original, but it doesn't really live up to the hype.
Rating: 
Summary: Completely engrossing!
Review: When was the last time you read a thriller that made you compulsively want to discuss it with friends, neighbors, other people in a restaurant?
Using a fairly standard thriller genre, Dan Brown packs it so full of fascinating scientific, historical, and art facts that you will constantly be hitting google to look for more information.
As in: I've got to see a print of The Last Supper immediately! What kind of airplane is that? I've got to find out more about the Priory of Sion right now! Where's a map of the Louvre?
The reader is given a chance to solve the puzzles before the answers are revealed, and the plot line is so compressed (the whole book takes place in under 24 hours) that you never get bogged down.Great for thriller fans or art fans or religous conspirators!
Rating:
Summary: Conspiracy Theorists, here you go!
Review: Dan Brown knows the secret to contructing a real page turner, and I hold him responsible for a lack of sleep, and a number of questions I now hope to answer by investigating the topic he was so apt to put forth in this masterpiece of suspense, and conspiracy theory. Catholics need not apply, but anyone else in search of excitement should definitely buy in. ...
Rating:
Summary: Langdon returns
Review: While Da Vinci Code features Robert Langdon, last seen destroying the Vatican Library in Brown's Angels and Demons, reading the earlier title isn't a prerequisite to enjoying this one; Da Vinci Code stands alone. Like Browns' earlier title, this one is a page-turner that is hard to put down, full of twists and turns at a breakneck pace as the search for the Grail becomes a simultaneous flight from attack. It is also a title that can be re-read, packed with interesting trivia that bears re-examination; while it is a "fun read", full of fast-paced action, there are elements of the novel that themselves might serve as the subject of scholarly analysis; this title defines "intellectual thriller".
Rating:
Summary: great ride
Review: This fast pace novel will keep you going to the end. Its one of those novels that you don't know who to trust as everyone has their own secret agenda. I can't wait to go back and read his earlier works.
Rating:
Summary: One Of The Best Books I've Read This Year
Review: Take a Catholic organization shrouded in mystery and recent scandal, mix in the bloodline of Jesus Christ, add a healthy dollop of ancient secret societies, and finish it off with a whole new idea of what the Holy Grail really is. That is The Davinci Code, a wonderful novel I was lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of from a friend who works at a bookstore. Robert Langdon, Harvard symbologist, is in Paris to deliver a lecture when the curator of the Louvre is mysteriously murdered. A cryptic message sets the French police after Robert, and Langdon finds himself travelling across France and Europe as what becomes an attempt to clear his name becomes a quest for the Holy Grail. What really stands out about this book is how believable much of it can be. There's enough basis in fact to make me look up much of what is mentioned within its pages, and often leaving me pleasantly surprised as I search. An incredible twist ending brings the story full circle, and leaves me wanting more. This is a book that everyone should have in their collection.
|
