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Summary: Why are people still reading this book?
Review: The only reason this book didn't get one star is because I did actually take the time to finish it, though at a whopping 2 days it wasn't exactly a huge accomplishment. I, like most everyone else who's read the book, did so because of the extensive word of mouth it has received. And I must admit, the beginning did grab my attention, but that is where my praise for this novel will end.I am surprised that the same word of mouth that caused this book to be such a huge seller has not acted equally as quick to bring its sales to a grinding halt. This work is sure to disappoint, and I truly believe that those still clinging to their belief that this is a masterful work of fiction formed that opinion before reading the prologue, well before reading the exceedingly trite ending. As mentioned in countless other reviews, the ending is ridiculous, but in addition to that, the whole novel is filled cheesy cliches befitting a low budget teeny bopper movie such as You Got Served. Case in point, several flashbacks to Robert Langdon's Harvard classroom. The dialogue between professor and students is so contrived and forced its vomit inducing. Clearly Brown was trying to impart some historical context for the scene, however, these scenes were all miserable failures at an attempt to be creative. I even kind of laughed because Robert would be in the middle of some particularly stressful moment and then all of a sudden he would remember a conversation he had with students in his classroom at Harvard...how he was surprised the dopey jock knew the answer to his tough question, the cleaver banter he had with the biology major who could only relate to the world within a biological context, and above all, the "warm feeling" that came over him reminding him "this is why I teach." Please, has anybody in a college classroom like this? And then after 15 pages...oh yeah! People are chasing me! We have to figure out this puzzle, and what's up with that dead guy? Just seemed a little ridiculous to me. In the end, you will be left wanting your 15 bucks, or your two days, or your two weeks, or whatever you invested in this book back. Do people a favor and spread this, and some of the other reviews on here around, and let's stop wasting everybody's time. Though I don't have much hope, because I get on the bus or the subway everyday and I always see at least two people reading this book. It's too late for them, but we can still help others.
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Summary: ingenious!
Review: Simply put, if you were not to read The Da Vinci Code, you have no idea what you are missing. The way Dan Brown blends fact with fiction so brilliantly keeps the reader turning the pages and wanting to know what happens next. The reader is constantly thrown off center when he or she realizes that the way things appear never really is what it seems to be. The action, the betrayal, the sheer drama keeps the reader begging for more with every chapter. The way Dan Brown suddenly makes obviously clear the riddles that seem impossible at first glance force the reader to look at every riddle with a keen eye in order to look beyond what initially seems to be is absolutely ingenious. If you have not yet read this book, you must read it as soon as possible. Dan Brown has done more than just hit a home run with this novel. Fact and fiction come together masterfully in this marvel of a novel. Go out and buy The Da Vinci Code today!
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Summary: A Must Read Book.
Review: Dan's Brown book "The Da Vinci Code" had me hooked. It was absolutley a great book filled with adventure and thrills. Definitley a page turner. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a great book to read.
I also recommend "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
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Summary: What the . . . . ?
Review: The main character is described as looking like "Harrison Ford." The villian is an albino. Subliminal images are said to be hidden in Disney cartoons. To quote Marge in Fargo when she tells the killer she can't fathom his motivations: "well, I just don't understand it...that's all there is to it."
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Summary: trick book with a trick ending
Review: Also filled with errors of fact. For example, the author has Charles & Diana getting married at Westminster Abbey, & passes it off as fact. They did not get married at Westminster Abbey. They got married at St. Paul's. There are many, many other errors that are passed off as fact. This infects the whole book.
It starts off as a good locked-room murder mystery & should have stayed there. Instead it branches off into some kind of quasi-religious chase for the Holy Grail.
The ending is such a trashy & cheap trick ending that it has spoiled me on this writer for keeps.
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Summary: Little disappointing
Review: While DavVinci Code keep its promise of puzzle after puzzle, it has a disappointing "continuous car chase" in the first third of the book. The ending was quite a let down. Angels and Demons was far superior in its richness and art with spectacular scenes as well as scenery. Lets hope Dan's next novel doesn't disappoint as much as this one. I love Robert Langdon and hope we get to see him again soon.
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Summary: Say What?
Review: Tolstoy, Doestoevsky, Dumas, Dickens and Brown? Give me a break! This forgettable piece of pulp has nothing in common with the works of those great writers. I could hardly bring myself to form a sentence (incomplete though it is) that included those five names. For those who defend the DVC because it is fiction after all, I have to say that at least half of my book club, bought the thing hook line and sinker and they are intelligent people.
Brown is a hack and worse he is dishonest. Where is this guy anyway? Why doesn't he emerge from his sanctuary and answer some of his critics regarding his declared "facts" and research. Better for sales to keep the mystique alive, I suppose. Next month my bookclub selection is going to be "Crime and Punishment." The richness of Doestoevsky should, if not clean the groups collective palate, at least smother the nasty taste left by Brown's foul effort.
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Summary: One great FICTIONAL read!
Review: Buy this book, read, enjoy and just try putting it down. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining, just don't let this book make you start seeing black helicopters. It's FICTION! it was written to entertain, not to inform. Any resemblance to fact is purely coincidental. Think! There's a reason it's not a non-fiction bestseller. Enjoy!
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Summary: most incredible book in years, you will keep as treasure
Review: Thank you Mr. Dan Brown for writing this marvel and bringing to life a book that is classic worthy to be kept for a life time. There is so much commercial writing nowadays that a book like this is an event that an avid reader should celebrate as a holiday. I am forever grateful to have this gift and be inspired of knowing that high literary art lives on! I am sure the writer was as much exhilarated working as I was reading.
An incredible experience worthy reading Onore de Balzak, Alexander Dummies, Leo Tolstoy, Feeder Dostoyevsky, Dickens and all the heavy weight classics. Forever your fan and folower!
An incredible experience worthy reading Onore de Balzak, Alexander Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Fedor Dostoyevsky, Dikkens and all the heavy weight classics. Forever your fan and folower!
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Summary: The DaVinci Code; a murder mystery
Review: I liked this novel because it's a book that you just won't want to put down. It's got everything from suspense to murder. The book starts out a little slow but towards the middle of the novel is when the book gets better. This book takes place in England and France. Some of the main characters include Robert Langdon, Sophi Neveu, and Fache. What I don't really like about the book is that the author jumps around from chapter to chapter. I found it to be distracting. My brother-in-law read this book and recommended this book to me. Despite the book starting off slowly, I would recommend it to anyone. I am not a big novel reader but if you like a murder mystery then you will like this book.The DaVinci Code is a page turner.
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