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Summary: Dan Brown has mastered the art of page-turning stories!
Review: A dead body in the Louvre leads to a chase through France and England, moving from one clue to the next. The DaVinci Code will leave you questioning how you look at art and history as it plunges you into a world of secret societies and secret agendas. A fantastic read!
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Summary: dopey
Review: A dumb-downed plot driven by corny action and cartoonish characters. Anti-Catholic, anti Christian, anti-religion based on erroneous, sensationalized conspiracy nonsense. The kind of bunk that fuels intolerence. Mr Brown should be ashamed.
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Summary: Fantastic Book, but do your own research
Review: A fantastic book, an easy read, and certainly thought-provoking. However, people should not make the mistake and take it as absolute truth, but do their own research. An interesting article is http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm Nevertheless, a highly entertaining and interesting book.
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Summary: DaVinci Code
Review: A fascinating murder mystery where the victim has left important clues to those who remain alive. Only Robert Langdon, an expert on the Holy Grail, can help solve the multiple riddles of curator Jacques Sauniere. The reader will be captivated by the suspense and intrigue of this story. It is hard to put the book down until you come to the end. Overall, it was a brilliant book and I enjoyed the twists and turns of the story line, but felt that the book's theme was sacrilegious.
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Summary: Will leave you as energized as the characters
Review: A fast moving book and perhaps the most amazing thing is that the main characters stay wide awake for nearly 48 hours after being woken up in the middle of the night and zipping all over Paris and London. If you are not familiar with the history of the Grail Legend, (which I wasn't) I think you will find this one of the most fascinating parts of the story. The amount of research required to write this must have been considerable. A previous and certainly perceptive reviewer could see the plot twists a few pages in advance, and I too sensed something was coming in a couple places, but most twists and turns were genuine surprises. Fans of this prose who like more human insight will feel a little let down, as the characters have some depth, but are more there to advance the plot than anything else. I've read better popular non-fiction, but only rarely.
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Summary: Fasten your seatbelt!
Review: A fast-paced thriller you will be unable to put down!! A brilliant combination of actual history and true biography of the Master painter himself combined with a mystery with a surprise at the end-nice fast reading for a day (as that is all you will need) at the beach! Not a true work of heavy duty literature and at times reads like a Sydney Sheldon novel; nonetheless keeps you at the end of your seat till the last page. A great summer thriller!
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Summary: Up all night for this?
Review: A few friends told me that they couldn't put this book down. I couldn't put it down either, but when I finally did finish it, I was pretty disappointed. I found some of the clues to be transparent , almost insulting. I am so DONE with the 0h-look-we've-fallen-in-love-while-chasing-crime/rescuing-the-world thing. Please.
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Summary: As long as your dont stop to think
Review: A few thousand year old mystery kept secret is solved in just a few hours by the protaganists. I tried hard, really hard to enjoy this book but it is too light a book. Read the "Quincunx" instead.
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Summary: Umberto Eco, but you can understand it
Review: A few years ago, i actually managed to read all of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum even though I got utterly lost several times. The end was disappointing - all that pretension never paid off. This is vastly better - a thoroughly entertaining adventure. It starts off kind of weakly but quickly becomes engrossing. By the end, I was sorry it finished...it's the first book I've read by him but I'm going to read more.
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Summary: I was proven wrong about this book
Review: A friend of mine kept telling me how great "The Da Vinci Code" was and I kept ignoring him, because I am a hardcore science-fiction fan, loving such books as "Snow Crash", "Cryptonomicon", "Zodiac" (Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk books) and, also, "Darkeye: Cyber Hunter" (another cyberpunk book). But I read it, I loved it, I bought it. I am now reading Dan Brown's previous book, "Angels and Demons". So far, it's just as good. Live and learn, I suppose.
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