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Summary: AWESOME
Review: This book was riveting, had more twists and turns than a roller coaster!
Once you start reading, you wont want to put it down! I highly recommend this to anyone who loves suspense, action, history!
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Summary: This book is TERRIBLE
Review: Please don't waste your time with this book. It's just so lame. The characters are barely there--names on a page. The plot is lamer than lame. Embarrassing. Horrifying to see how many people like this book. Read the Name of the Rose if you want to read about Christianity in a fun way. Read anything but this book. The codes are not that hard to figure out except for one that involves another language. The book is totally pseudo-intellectual. I don't understand why people think it's good. Really baffling.
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Summary: Even though I'm an ex-Buddhist ,
Review: I find Mr. Brown's so-called fact on the birth manner of the Lord Buddha offensive. The Lord Buddha did slide out of his queen mama's hole already invaded with his king papa's pole, and at the same time seven lotuses sprang up to welcome his advent and then function sort of as a carpet for him to walk upon. He didn't come out of a lotus as claimed Mr. Brown's Langdon. Then I give this book one star because I find what has been said by many disenchanted reviewers so true. P.S. Don't get me wrong. I hold nothing against the Lord Buddha, whom I so admire as an absolute philosopher. It's just that establishment which supposedly teaches his teaching.
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Summary: A Non-Christian Perspective
Review: As a non-Christian I find this book to be absolutly amazing. Our country was not founded on Christian freedom, but on all freedom. Today we have shows like "charmed" who portray pagans as people with supernatural powers. How is this any different from the DaVinci Code? It takes some truth, adds suspense and fiction, to make a fun book. This book is based in fact, while the pieces are true and may not add up to be a whole truth, it never claims to. It is true that experts critique the book because of it's factual mistakes, however, the book has got people interested. It has taken hold of the public and sparked people to look into the truth. Everything in today's society is critiqued and made fun of, just look at the late night television. This book is no different, except that it challanges the majority religion. Just like the movie Stigmata this book raises important questions and convinces people to look more closly at their own religion instead of accepting the dogma that is handed out. The Lord may be our Shepard, but that doesn't mean we have to be sheep and have no brains of our own. Anything that challanges the popular view is going to come in for criticism, Galileo is great example. Instead of looking at this book as a theory, people really need to look at it how it was intended: as a work of fiction loosly based on truth. Ladies and gentleman it's in the fiction section for a reason...
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Summary: This is the best damn fiction you'll ever read
Review: Or it could be a pain in the *** tryin to figure out which facts are correct and which facts are not. Its kinda good for both kinds of people. If you like reading pulse racing fiction, you'll not want to put this book down. And if you are one of those hell bent on trying to pick faults, you will get lots of leads to do some research :) Either way, you should read it!
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Summary: Fascinating!
Review: The Da Vinci code is a fascinating fictional interpretation of the history of Catholicism and the actuality of the Holy Grail. The only way one can love this book is to not take it completely literally but to read it for what it is as a whole and allow yourself to be absorbed into its story which really is classified as fiction. It's not so much an attack on the Catholic church as simply a different perspective from a theory claiming that the lifestyle of Jesus and the actions of the Catholic church in the past may not have been as we thought. It is definitely worthy of the wave of attention it has brought about and is highly recommended.
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Summary: Whining Christians!
Review: Look, to all the bloody Christians out there, I say STOP WHINGING and pretending to be so devout by being offended by this book! What would be so bad about Jesus being married anyway? Mohammed was married, you know! And what's more, this book shows up just how arrogant and bigoted Christianity is because it focusses on the man and the male. What's so wrong about female divinity anyway? Dan makes a very good point, amongst many others, that the bible was written by humans, and what's more MALE humans. Of course it is going to reflect the interests of the church and the power it weilded over people! Develop a thicker skin or just pretend that the book doesn't exist if you want to bury your heads in the sand and hide from the truth!
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Summary: Recycled trash
Review: This is pure pulp, recycled trash and soft-headed conspiration theories. Take a spoonful of a guide to the Louvre, half a cup from of table book about Da Vinci's work, and add six chapters from "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by H Lincoln, M Baigent and R Leigh from 1982. A Harvard scholar who, even for a second, believes in this conspiracy - Jesus never died on the cross, instead he married and had children with Mary of Magdalene; the Merovingian dynasty (cloaked in the dark ages) could trace its origin back to this union; guarding this SECRET was the true mission of the Knight's Templars and the ficticious secret society Priory of Zion - belongs in a loony bin. This hoax is recycled trash, and the author is laughing all the way to the bank. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Da Vinci is Convincing
Review: I recommend this book for anyone - it suitable for all ages. Dan Brown has done a great job. As the grandson of a Mason and whose family members have been in other secret societies, I am glad Brown has brought them to light in a serious, but educating way. Brown uses a hybrid socratic method to keep the reader thinking ahead, while mixing puns, puzzles, and trivia to keep the reader focused on the current story. Brown uses many literary devices well and weaves many biblical allegories into the story itself. I commend the publisher for taking the chance on printing a thriller that has both a serious intellectual investigation and which has a more challenging style than is usual. The story is tightly written and the author does not stray from the plot or the main characters at all. Wondering who is bad and not bad keeps one guessing until the end. The book does not have a bibliography, but the author alludes to critical works on the subject he writes about. The reader can then go read the scholarly works. One thing missing from the book is the political ramifications for the Romans in allowing the unification of the Jews ( and thus Palestine ) such a marriage of Jesus and Mary could have brought about. Another angle would be the economic unification brought about by such a union - and the other economic interests that would have opposed this. Jesus was no ordinary leader and his death at a young age before he could become established and solidify his base no doubt was welcomed by many who preferred the status quo. I am constantly amazed at the number of Christians I meet who evangelize, but who are not familiar with the Masons or the Knights Templar or their role in preserving Western Civilization.
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Summary: Pap & Treacle
Review: This leviathan of inanity has generated such a tremendous amount of attention that I was suckered into reading it. After doing so, I honestly can't understand why it got any attention at all, let alone the busloads it did... it lacks both the emotional depth of even a mediocre novel and the energy of a Grade C bus-depot thriller. I honestly can't fathom why, after reading this terrible book, one would want to do anything other than try to eradicate any trace of it from one's brain. I could say that it's numbingly pedestrian, that it's deplorably ordinary, or that it's unsettlingly tiresome, but in the end what matters is that "The Da Vinci Code" is dull, dull, dull...
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