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Summary: Superb read
Review: Without any doubt this was the most enthralling and gripping read I have had in years. It is a well paced thriller, in the real meanbing of the word, written by a master of his craft who has obviously done his in-depth research well. Once you suspend your disbelief about the demonstrable fantasy of the Priory of Sion, the rest falls into place in an enthralling and delightful manner. All with any interest in esoteric history, whether the serious researchers or the fans of the Holy Blood and Holy Grail, should enjoy this delightful romp through the groves of medieval obfuscation.
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Summary: Loved it for its strengths
Review: Wonderful art and religious history. Long overdue take on Christianity. Wonderful main characters. Two-dimensional secondary characters. Great plot twists.
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Summary: The DaVinci Code
Review: Wonderful book for a long drive. Not too technical or complicated. Good pacing with several twists and turns. It kept us guessing to the very end. We put the first CD in the player and waited in the driveway after we got home to hear the ending.
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Summary: Da Vinci Code
Review: Wonderful Book, fast service!
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: Wonderful book. It sucked me right in and didn't let me go until I was finished. Interesting factual bits, also, that make me want to read more on them. The charactors are wonderful, and as he mentions early in the book, Harrison Ford would be perfect for the leading role if this were made into a movie. You must read this book!A note to a few of the complainers: Mr. Brown has an extensive biblography on his web site, so yes he didn't make this stuff up, and before claiming his facts are totally wrong you should look at his sources. Also, to the person who claimed that the bloodline of Jesus becomes non-important if He is not divine, you obviously forget that even if He's not divine, He still is a desendent of the long line of kings - that makes His bloodline very important.
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Summary: Page turner;quick read
Review: Wonderful book. Was recommended to me by umpteen people.
WOrth all the praise.
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Summary: Wonderful: no doubt Brown stretches some truths though
Review: Wonderful from beginning to end. Not only a good story, but I learned a lot of fascinating things. The other critics are no doubt right that Brown stretches some truths to make the novel work but...Altogether I thoroughly enjoyed it and I recommend it highly.
I'm going to the store to buy Brown's other books.
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Summary: A wonderful work!
Review: Wonderful. Dan Brown is almost as good as Grisham.
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Summary: Indeed a Suspenseful Thriller - But It's Just a Novel
Review: Working at a bookstore for the last six months, most of the customers who come in are either asking for Dan Brown's book or they are talking about it. The talk is what caused me to want to read the novel in the first place. Several people I had overheard made claims that the novel was based on fact and that Dan Brown had really done his research well. So, I thought, it must be worth reading. As for the novel as a novel, it reads like all the great suspense thrillers read (i.e. Ludlum, Grisham, Clancey, etc.): fast paced, a real page turner, well formulated and put together, and had a great plot and story line (albeit its certainly not great literature). For these features I would rate the novel at least four stars. Simply put, Dan Brown has written a real page turner that carries the reader along quite nicely. However, as for content, in so much as it transcends fiction to become fact, its rubbish. Of course this book is loosely based on two works: 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' and 'The Templar Revelation.' Moreover, these two books are actually mentioned in the Da Vinci code as a part of the story line. But, as for solid historical texts, the two aforementioned books are speculative at best, and are filled with a great amount of guesswork and hypotheses. Having said that, I go back to the customers I overheard who were taken in by the so called 'facts' of this work. I am not sure if Dan Brown intended to write this novel with the idea that what he was writing was indeed fact. If that is the case then he should have written an historical account and not a novel. Let the historians sift through it and then determine whether the facts stand of fall based on current trends of research in the field of history. This, however, is a novel and should be taken as such. In fact, I once heard a famous fiction author declare, "Fiction writers are simply good liars." That being the case, the Da Vinci code is one of the best lies ever written. Too bad people are falling for it.
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Summary: 5 Wows
Review: Wow 1 for indepth development of the characters; Wow 2 for a marvelous plot contrived of fiction and truth and a whole lot of research; Wow 3 for page turning events that consumed me from the moment I bought the book; Wow 4 for suspending any sense of reality I previously felt and replacing it with wanting to find the tomb; and Wow 5 for wanting to tell everyone I know who likes a good read about it and get them to read it so we could join in the quest. I have ordered the rest of his books and can't wait to read them. Couldn't have been better.
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