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Summary: Great promise, quickly fades.
Review: What starts out as a page turner, quickly becomes just another fast-paced movie script, with no character development. The plot grows more unbelievable and ultimately ridiculous.
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Summary: AMAZING READ
Review: What we know about certain things like the Holy Grail may not be what it is. Although some may think that the novel of Dan Brown could affect the Catholic belief, it is not that bad to be open to things that could really be mind liberating for us. The genesis of the novel is as meaty and exciting as the end. A great salute for a great book.
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Summary: The Da Vinci Code
Review: What would you do if you were wanted for a crime you didn't commit? Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu asked themselves this question in the exciting book The Da Vinci Code. Robert and Sophie are wanted for the crime of murdering Sophie's grandfather, Jauques Sauniére. Jauques is a master of riddles, and he leaves a few to tell Sophie a secret.
Robert and Sophie are faced with many decisions in this book of murder, survival, betrayal, and friendship. Robert and Sophie must use the skills they know to figure out the trail of riddles that Jauques left behind. They must outwit their enemies and find out the secret Jauques tried to tell them in his last dying moments before their enemies and the police catch up with them.
The Da Vinci Code has an exciting twist at the end. I don't know if anyone could guess it. This book is a thrilling novel that will have you reading for hours. I liked how it had a little nonfiction in it as well as a fictional story. I would recommend this book to advanced readers from ages 14 and up. The Da Vinci Code would interest mystery readers the most. Even if you don't like mystery books, you should still try this interesting novel.Kelly Meric
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Summary: An exciting, fun and intelligent read!
Review: What's great about this book is that it is loaded with quality historic research and conspiracy theories that make you start to wonder about things you never thought of before! This is the kind of novel that gets the intelligent person hooked and keeps them up all hours of the night just to find out what's going to happen next! I don't read a lot of novels, but this one is smart, exciting and just a lot of fun! A must read for those interested in The Holy Grail.
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Summary: Clever and entertaining
Review: Whatever my other thoughts of the book are, this is definately a page-turner. It's easy to get caught up in the thriller aspect and Dan Brown obviously had his eye on Hollywood as he wrote. I liked the way he wrapped ideas (some I knew of, some I didn't) as part of the story. He has a message which he delivered in an entertaining way. I disliked the more obvious storyline cliches. But I was always aware of the blaring question. When did the characters sleep?!
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Summary: Pretty good fiction... but to call it "scholarly"?
Review: Whatever the entertainment merits of this book may be, it is nonetheless tragic that so many have mistaken this book for scholarship. Brown's idiosyncratic conspiracies have almost no relation to modern scholarship. That so many readers speak of Brown's "research" and the like is simply a scathing indictment of the modern NPR-listening armchair-intellectual.
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Summary: Don't let the bad reviews stop you
Review: Whatever you do, do not read the reviews that have stars of three or less. They were insulting the book for usually obscure, simple sentences that did not have any relation to the plot that might have been less than historically accurate. Dan Brown got all the IMPORTANT details right, which I have discovered in my research. Really, what does it matter if he mistakenly put that a stick- shift car has a park gear? Does it MATTER?? Most of the people claiming this book is "sacrilegious" and "historically inaccurate" are exactly the type of people who should not be reading books that actually want them to think and open their mind to other possibilities, besides what they have been forced to believe their entire lives which, while it is nice that they have a solid faith, should not blind them to other possibilities. This is one of the best books I have ever read, both for its fiction AND its fact. I can't stop thinking about it, and everything I have learned from it. We all are taught traditional Christian beliefs, but now I see the truth about that religion, and I hope soon more Christians will as well. For those who have not read it yet-- if you are close- minded, judgemental, and/or upset by truth, don't read it. But if you thirst for knowledge, truth, and the other side of history, then read this! You won't regret it.
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Summary: Mystery or Science Fiction?
Review: Whatever you do, don't think!
Dan Brown writes a speedy thriller that could keep you up all night turning pages. This is the best thing that can be said about this book. It's best to read it when your mind isn't sharp.
In the beginning you may overlook the fact that the author has placed a flamboyant homosexual in the Grand Mastery of a goddess worshipping group that supposedly finds completion and enlightenment in heterosexual union.
You may also overlook the fact that the only character described in any detail at all is the huge albino assassin following a plethora of other albino assassin stories from Foul Play to Pluto Nash (any more albino assassin stories and albinos will start an anti-defamation league). The rest are faceless cutouts. Even the main character gets a one line description.
The book is full of puzzles, but the best of these are the anagrams. The rest are often totally fabricated or contradictory (such as the one where we first note that hebrew has no vowels, and then get the puzzle to work out by adding vowels).
Try not to notice that until the last few pages, there is only a single female character with more than half a dozen lines. She seems to exist for the sake of the mentally superior male characters who spend most of the book lecturing her. As a cryptographer, her only other contribution is the ability to recognize a Fibonacci series.
The biggest thing to overlook is the portrayals of any faith/religion at all. The author shows a lack of any depth in understanding either goddess worship (in which he simultaneously asserts that male and female are equal complements, and asserts that the female is greater) or Christianity (in which he seems to assume that Christianity has some concern with the gender of God except in metaphors). Try not to think about what Christian sect the author may have had contact with that bases its beliefs or it's efforts on finding the Holy Grail. Try to overlook the fact that if Jesus wasn't who the Bible claims him to be, any of his brothers would have the same claims of inheritance.
What begins as a mystery soon becomes alternate-universe science-fiction as Mr. Brown rewrites history, religion, linguistics and logic.
What could have been a thriller worthy of Alfred Hitchcock ends as a conspiracy sermon worthy of Richard Hoagland and Art Bell and a puzzle of whether this is in actuality a defense of the author's sexuality.
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Summary: My Thoughts.
Review: When I first began to read the Da Vinci Code I thought that it was quite boring. As I got into it though, I found it was quite interesting. The suspense is amazing! The book takes place in France, for the main part. The search they are on will suprise you, in many different ways. The book starts out pretty normal then has a couple of twists and turns and before you know it you will be so caught up you won't be able to put it down. I think this book is very well written and has excellent details. I really enjoyed reading this book and finished it quickly because I couldn't put it down. I strongly recommend this book to anyone, but especially to people who are interested in art.
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Summary: A Great Read.
Review: When I first heard about this book, I did not consider it. I am not a person who normally reads mystery and suspense. But a friend said she loved this book and I thought why not. So I bought the book over the Holiday's and to my surprise I could not put it down. It was great! It was suspenseful, intriguing and kept me on the edge of my seat (well airplane seat). To be honest the ending kind of dragged but that could have been me, wanting to know what would happen to the main characters. Highly recommend it.
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