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Summary: Loved it
Review: Don't start this book late one night and expect to be able to close it up and go to sleep any time soon.It's a great book, full of fascinating historical information plus a cool plot and lots of fun codes-and-word games.Silas the albino monk is one of the more interesting "is he good or is he bad or is he crazy or is he simply misguided?" characters I have read in quite a while.
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Summary: Fun Conspiracy Yarn
Review: Don't take this book too seriously, it was a great Indiana Jones sort of read that takes you through France and Great Britian in a race to reach the Holy Grail. The fun is in all the little revelations about art, science and religion that Dan Brown offers up. Although I feel he may have taken some literary license with the facts, I still enjoyed this book much more than what the average pop fiction novel has to offer. Read it for fun and not for the facts - a great summer page-turner.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Don't waste your time reading my review...just pick up the book and get reading. I promise that you won't put it down until the last page is turned!!
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Summary: Drivel, pure drivel
Review: Drivel, pure drivel. Here's a tip, if you are setting out to write a fast paced caper where the charcters must solve coded messages to advance the story, the "codes" should be more complex than those found in the "jumble" in the newspaper or "mirror writing" used in my son's weekly reader. I solved the three main codes in less than a minute each, but our expert cryptologist and religious symbolist aggonized over them for several pages. Also, the author is oblivious to the facts and folklore that provide the backdrop of his book. As just one example, the Holy Grail derived from an earlier pagan legend about a magic cauldron, not the idea suggested by the author. This is the worst book I have read in ages. If you want a good novel about the theft of a sacred relic and the follower's pursuant to retrieve the relic, try Wilkie Collin's "The Moonstone"
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Summary: Maybe he's just trying to get in good with his wife...
Review: During the course of these 400+ pages of turgidity, my thought was, "Maybe the reason this guy wrote this thing was to make up with a bad fight with his wife?" After all, the coverup of the sacred feminine by the Catholic church is a pretty slim reed to hang your hat on. Give me those old Robert Ludlum "Nazi in the woodpile," stories any day. Those who castigate Mr. Brown for his inept writing style are quite right. However, it is to be noted that books are not published on the basis of good style, character development, denouement, and all the other things that unwitting, aspiring scribes are taught in the myriad (and inane) writing courses and how-to books foisted on them. The bottom line is that books are published based on their ability to sell And to this extent, Mr. Brown has got his formula down pat. And with all the $ he's going to see, I'm sure "the sacred fem"in his life will totally forgive him...once she sees her new Beamer.
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Summary: loved it
Review: dvc is a great book i was not thinking about the facts about jesus, but after reading this book i feel inclined to find the truth dvc = thriller + suspense + art + da vinci + facts + conspiracies + religious background + .....
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Summary: Potboiler Beach Reading
Review: Easy to read, like most books of its type. Wildly innaccurate. For details about Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene, I much preferred THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JESUS CHRIST by Neil Elliott.
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Summary: Great look into the bible
Review: Either you love or hate this book. I am a "religious" person and I love the facts brought out in this book. It gave me a new look on things and is causing me to do my our study. This book had a great story that keeps you turning the page. This author is great! He holds on to you until the last chapter. MUST BUY!
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Summary: Spielberg's next
Review: El libro está diseñado, escrito y editado sin otro interés que el de convertirlo en película. Es casi un screenplay y sus cortos capítulos no son más que las escenas pre-editadas de una película. Dicho esto, el libro es bastante divertido y se puede disfrutar ampliamente siempre que el lector no sea un "fan" del Opus Dei o tome muy a pecho el nuevo testamento. La interpretación que Brown hace del Santo Grial no es nueva y el hilo que une todos los elementos del libro es bastante débil desde el punto de vista de congruencia historica. El final es desastrozo y falto de imaginación. La conclusión final es que, este es un libro interesante que se disfruta leyendo, aunque no aporta mucho.
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Summary: yes, remember that it's just fiction
Review: Enjoy the story, but don't mistake it for a work of non-fiction scholarship as some have. I have a history degree from U.C. Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies and can tell you from my own research that there's no historical basis for much of Brown's story. He doesn't even get the Leonardo part right (for example, as some Leonardo scholars have pointed out, no one refers to Leonardo as "Da Vinci"). So enjoy the ride, but look for historical accuracy elsewhere.
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