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Summary: Excellent and entertaining. Will make a good movie.
Review: It's important to remember that this is "fiction" and isn't supposed to be a historical research paper on Christianity and Christ. It's fiction. It's a very good read. It's supposed to be and is a fun book. If you are looking for historical reference material...go to the Vatican website.The ending could have been better...but I still give the book 5 stars for entertainment value. I enjoyed it very much. It would make a good movie.
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Summary: Catholics in trouble again
Review: It's interesting how most of us accept the Bible without a lot of thought. Reading this book you may realize like I did that there were a lot of hands making a lot of decisions about the Bible that have changed our view of reality forever. And maybe not in a positive way. Brown reminds me of Ludlum in that there's always some major unthinkable thing that will happen in the very next chapter. It's a great read and the historical implications regarding our view of Jesus, the role of woman, the holy grail and da Vinci will never be quite the same.
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Summary: good for a car ride and afterwards to persue real research
Review: It's neither as good nor as bad as many of the reviews claim. I had great fun reading it on vacation. As a theology student, not everything mentioned by Brown is completely impossible, especially if one considers that what we have as the Bible and Christian tradition comes out of the social biases of the last 3,000 years and that they are incredibly patriarchal. One bite I have is that his characters conclude that if Jesus were married then he could not have been divine (away with the incarnation, resurrection, etc.). Maybe it's not that black and white. ... Have fun reading it and then DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.
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Summary: doesn't make it to the level of "lite" reading
Review: It's shameful that Dan Brown, his editors and Doubleday have marketed _The Da Vinci Code_ as an "intelligent" mystery novel, "layered with remarkable research and detail." The writing is astonishingly lazy. The proliferation of chapters is a cheap attempt to cover up the fact that the author isn't able to create a viable structure for the book, interweave elements of a plot or create complex characters. The sentence structure is poor throughout, and the figurative language is utterly inane. The research informing the book is pretty much what one expects from students in a freshmen creative writing class (at a mediocre school). Skip Brown's pseudo-intellectual posturing and read Umberto Eco instead.
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Summary: Whta difference do historical inaccuracies make?
Review: It's still an edge of the seat novel. That's why you buy a mystery like this. The interesting thing is that everyone wants to talk about whether it is or isn't Mary Magdalene in the Last Supper, but they don't want to talk about the Catholic Church burning over 5 million women at the stake over 3 centuries during the Inquisition. And why does the person in a picture controversy drag the book down to a single star? What a bunch of idiots.
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Summary: Who cares if you agree with his theory...its a GREAT book
Review: it's stupid that people criticize this book because they disagree with the point made by the main characters. Either way it's a thriller...shock after shock it will keep you enthralled. You don't have to agree with the rather revolutionary point (although somewhat ficticious) presented...it's fantastically written...meticulously edited...and an absolute joy to read.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Its a page turner. you won't put it down. It will make you want to read more books on scandals of the Catholic Church.
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Summary: a rebirth of suspense and mystery to literature
Review: its hard to find a good suspense and mystery novel these days. well its hard to find one with the eloquance of dan brown who has put thought and research into the story's locations, art, and cultural aspects. even if you have never heard of opus dei before opening the book dan brown explains it in the way that everyone can understand it. the beginnings mysterious "he did this to himself murder" creates suspense for the famouse louve currator. i love the cultural aspects to the novel in its french point of view. "what do you think of the pyramid (the one at the louve designed by im pei)?" made me laugh on the french's view of their own culture. for a fan of mystery with the promise of not a plot to flop like other mysteries then dan brown presents to you a novel of greatness.
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Summary: A Riddle Wrapped into an Enigma
Review: J
Five stars to the author who develops such a magnificent imagination. He says that all references to the past are true. But, as they say in Italy: If it's not true, it surely is well invented. Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu try to do what countless savants over the centuries tried in vain: Find the Holy Grail. The Vatican gets involved and, of course, Opus Dei. Jacques Sauniere, curator of the Louvre, is murdered early on. Apparently he was the grand marshal of the Priory of Sion, and they know where the Grail is. Robert and Sophie progress from anagram to double entendre riddles, on and on for over 400 pages. The red herring going through it all is Mary Magdalene and the cult of the Sacred Feminine. But, after a while, you do get tired of fabulous and saintly Mary M. and all the feminism. And the ending of this very large book is rather silly.
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Summary: Imaginative and Entertaining
Review: Jacques Saunierre is a curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He is murdered by a giant albino assassin who is seeking knowledge of an ancient secret which has been entrusted to Jacques and just three other men. The albino tells Jacques that the other three are already dead. Before Jacques dies he tries to leave enough clues near his body so that the secret can be passed on to the two people he trusts the most to guard it. One is agent Sophie Neveu who is a cryptographer and also his granddaughter. The other is Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology at Harvard, who is presently staying at the Paris Ritz. Langdon is called to the murder scene because his name is written on a message left by the murder victim. Sophie arrives soon after because the case requires a cryptographer. Sophie figures out that the message left by Jacques is meant for both her and Langford. She also knows that Langford is the chief suspect and he will shortly be put in jail. Since she needs his help in unraveling the clues left by Jacques, Sophie leads Langford out of the Louvre through an emergency exit. Together they set off to follow the clues and it soon becomes clear to them that their real quest is the Holy Grail. There are others in pursuit of the same prize such as the famous British historian Sir Leigh Teabring as well as Bishop Manuel Aringarosa of the Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei. THE DA VINCI CODE is in the best tradition of detective and thriller fiction. The mystery is complicated but the author explains the intricate solution in detail as the plot unfolds. The story may seem a little too imaginative at times but that is exactly what makes the book so entertaining.
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