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Summary: For the educated and curious reader
Review: I'm sharing an informative webpage I found which has helpful links for anyone's personal efforts to crack the Code: www.thedavincicode.info.
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Summary: MD in NY
Review: Fantastic, gripping, colorful, ingenious! I listen to the tapes during commute to and from work and although I would be happy to be home after a long day, I found myself several times sitting in my car in the driveway to hear the next chapter!! Enjoy!
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Summary: just plain dumb
Review: Some have called The Da Vinci Code blasphemous. I would suggest that in order to qualify for such an accusation the book would have to achieve some level of credibility. It does not. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the book is just plain dumb. Indeed it is moronic, puesdo-history, pop culture crapola.If you thought the half-time show during the superbowl had artistic value, this low-level junk might appeal to you. Indeed, I believe that the intellectual vaccuum that is the Da Vinci Code, could actually make you dumber having read it. Especially if you are gullible enough to buy into it. Regrettably it seems many readers are. Dan Brown is a hack and worse dishonest. Unfortunately it remains possible to make lots of money feeding junk food to the suckers amongst us. Wake up people. Just say no to the Oreo, Big Mac, revisionist history pushing fiends. Yes, wake up and smell the clean fresh aroma of nourishment for the body, soul and spirit. Seek the truth and you will find it.
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Summary: Code will make you smile (no pun intended)
Review: This novel was really really good. This novel was good on 2 levels. First this was an excellent adventure novel. I liked the action with Langdon and Newvel. I also liked how they got along together. Secondly it was a first rate mystery novel. I consider myself a little bit of a mystery buff and this novel was tops in that catagory. Third this novel was almost like a history book. I've always been a history buff. From Adam and Eve to King Tut to Johnny Appleseed and all the men and women in between I love them all. This novel made history more interesting than normal. Alot of the history in this novel was unknown to me. I don't know if I missed some of it in school or just didn't get to that stuff, but this novel taught me alot of history and I thought I already knew it all. Oh well live and learn. I'd like to know if Mr. Dan Brown has a background in history. Maybe a Professor. I guess any novel of any type of genre should teach you something.
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Summary: dfraz
Review: This book begins in an exciting, suspenseful and thrilling manner, but it soon loses the reader's interest with its unbelievable, historically inaccurate plot. Many people will read this and think it is historical fact or truth. It is not. It is a NOVEL based on the most outrageous, revisionist history. The book would have had more credibility if it was based in something that was historically plausible. Readers who are analytical will immediately lose interest as the plot and story line are revealed in their fullness. It's just not believable, even as a novel. It's not worth your time or your money.
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Summary: Paint-By-Numbers Conspiracy Drivel
Review: While it's certainly engaging, it's definitely not satisfying. Sure, it's a page-turner that you'll probably read in a week, but in hindsight you'll realize that the author merely took a bunch of interesting conspiracy theories and mysterious facts and figures and sewed them all together in a kind of conspiracy tapestry. You start by taking the main conspiracy theory, namely the Priory of Scion/Mary Magdelene/Knights Templar theory, then you tie in a mysterious cult, namely Opus Dei (which is seems REALLY out of place, if you think about it), sprinkle on some interesting factoids, IE the Golden Ratio PHI, various forms of cryptography, etc. Then you realize how Hollywood the whole book is. Reading the plot for one of Dan Brown's other books (Angels and Demons . . . Order of the Illuminati . . . OooOOoohhHh) I realize that this guy makes a living writing these "conspiracy tapestries". Trust me, it's must more interesting reading about these conspiracy theories from legitimate non-fiction books, or watching History Channel specials, then reading them from Dan Brown.
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Summary: What's all the fuss about?
Review: This is a very well written mystery which contains all the aspects of current conspiracy and murder on the stage of the most ancient mystery. 'The Last Temptation of Christ,' 'The Last Supper,' 'King of Kings' notwithstanding, Dan Brown is really on safe ground here. I mean, we can't even puzzle out the shot from the grassy knoll fifty years ago. How could we possibly unravel clues lost for two thousand years in the sands of antiqity over Christ's human life? Mr. Brown presents a murder in the Louvre that takes the characters across three continents to a violent conclusion, with nothing really lost or gained. If we thought we would know more at the end then we knew at the beginning, we are happily, I suppose, disappointed. Mr. Brown through Robert Langdon conjures up a remarkable story, but those critical of the church and those supportive of the church fail to uncover any more grist for their mills. And that's the beauty of Brown's writing. He takes a story we all heard at varying points of our adolescence, presents it beautifully, and keeps our attention throughout. It really is, forgetting the topic, a very compelling story. Worth the effort. Larry Scantlebury
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Summary: Langdon and Sophie need to get it on sooner
Review: otherwise a great story! I wanted more heat between the lead characters but The movie will change that...
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Summary: Fun read but right wingers beware...
Review: I picked this up to pass time during a recent flight and found it an enjoyable read. The plot is fun and easy to understand and the writing style is easy to read. I can see this being made into a fun movie. For those of you offended by it's claims, it is a fiction book. Sure some of it's historical claims are just wrong. But there is enough truth that it's readers may just be driven to investigate the "facts" and learn some actual history along the way.
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Summary: Engaging mystery read -- quasi history
Review: This an excellent mystery book, combined with a dose of controversial historical perspectives, including confluence of ideas related to biblical themes (Jesus and Mary Magdalene); the Crusades (the Grail and the knights Templar); and conspiracy theories (masons; world domination, etc.). In my opinion, this book is best suited either for: (1) those interested in the topics enumerated above; or (2) by those looking for an engaging mystery book. I found that I knew many of themes and theories in the book, and therefore the real was not as surprising as it is apparently for others.
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