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Summary: Beautiful and fun to read
Review: This was a fun read that I couldn't stop turning the pages. The plot is beautifully crafted and Perdue has done a huge amount of research which sustains the book. The facts sparked me to do my own research that led me into mant fascinating topics that I knew nothing about.I found this well-written and was fascinated by the questions it raises about Da Vinci and religion. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great Fiction Based on Facts
Review: Work leaves me little time for fun reading, but I picked up Da Vincy legacy on a whim, and read it in my spare time this week. From the first instant I started, I let every thing else drop.
Perdue constantly leaves you wondering what's next. The plot twists, turns, begs you to read more and delivers every time!. The characters seemed real, if not always attractive. For a fact-reader, this book was a good draw to me because it was filled with so much history and fact that led me to dig deeper.
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Summary: Totally Engrossing
Review: While not as good as Perdue's more recent works, Slatewiper and Daughter of God, this is MILES above the average thriller in plot, writing, creativity and uniqueness. Some reviews here have pointed out similarities with the Da Vinci Code, and while I saw some I picked up a lot of things from Angels and Demons as well so it seems that Da Vinci LEGACY was first in many ways.
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Summary: Bad, really bad.
Review: I was interested to read this book after a local bookseller recommended it.
All I can say is I have no idea why it was suggested. Honestly the plot isn't so bad - just poorly executed. But the bad writing together with the stilted sad dialogue, one dimensional characters, and the most hideous, unbelievable love story I've ever read made this book amost impossible to get through.
I often had to stop reading just to say to myself "this book is terrible."
I only finished it becasue I was hoping it would get better, if anything it got worse.
I would never, ever suggest that anyone read this book...ever.
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Summary: Don't Read the Back Cover
Review: I am nearly done with the recently re-released paperback version of the Da Vinci Legacy. Although I am enjoying it immensely I have noticed a few things... it has been changed, evidently, since it was first released. The back cover refers to the main character as "Curtis Davis" but the main character in the text is "Vance Erikson". Also, cell phones are used in the text. I'm pretty sure that they were not around in 1983 (The original release). The story is great though... I can't wait to finish.
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Summary: Enjoyable and worth reading
Review: I stayed away from this book until a friend gave me a copy because I thought I felt Perdue was just capitalizing on the success of The Da Vinci Code, but then there I had the book and I started reading. Well, I actually ended up liking this book, especially after finding out that it was originally written 21 years before Code. It's fast-paced and a page turner, much more enjoyable than I anticipated and well worth reading. Whether or not you believe Code follows Legacy too closely, this is an enjoyable read.
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Summary: Excellent Book, Tight and Suspenseful
Review: The Da Vinci Legacy has everything I look for in a religious thriller: * An ancient secret brotherhood.
* A devastating new weapon of destruction.
* An unthinkable target I liked the book, I liked Daughter of God too. I did enjoy the way Perdue develops his characters and the teriffic techniques he uses to weave historical facts into the story. Perdue is an excellent novelist. He knows how to create tension, gradually introduce details all while saving the big surprise for the end. But I had a real nagging "been there read that" feeling, maybe from having first read Code.
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Summary: Accurate and Exciting
Review: Having studied at Cambridge in the early 1980s when Perdue first wrote this book, I must say he is spot on with his descriptions of places and especially of the academic pettiness, politics and bitterness that infects academia. And despite a recent review's opinion to the contrary, there most certainly is a physical location of the buildings and grounds at Cambridge to which some refer as a "campus." While a student, I had many an opportunity to travel on the continent and find that even from the perspective of twenty distant years, Perdue's physical descriptions of locations I had visited were so accurate as to provoke clear images in my thoughts. While I did find some of The Da Vinci Legacy's premises over the top (the famous people associated with the Elect Brothers of St. Peter), I found none of them as contrived or as unbelievable as I did those in the bestseller which pays homage to Perdue. Significantly, The Da Vinci Legacy offers us a view of Leonardo as a military architect which is rarely addressed in either fiction or fact. Interestingly enough, Perdue seems to have made a mistake in his history in describing Harrison Kingsbury's Codex (which the author makes clear in the acknowledgements is actually the Codex Leicester). Perdue mistakenly writes that this work of Leonardo's was written on parchment. My not-inconsiderable research indicates that every source in the world, save one, agrees that the Codex Leicester was written, instead, on linen paper. And that one source that disagrees? Why, it is none other than The Da Vinci Code.
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Summary: Artful
Review: A remarkable book. I rarely read thrillers, but the quest of a good mystery is my private passion. I enjoy a good brain twister, the more literate the better.This one was a joy! Not only does Perdue give us a well-written story, he also creates maze of mirrors filled with shapeshifters and creative bad guys that rise above the oridinary and derivative. The author's deft use of history along with the creative leapt from it kept me involved from beginning to end.
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Summary: Worst ever
Review: The hero just happens to be in the right place at the right time with the right people once to many times for my taste. After the first few times this happened, I lost interest in the book and its stretch of a story.
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