Da Vinci Code book related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Da Vinci Code Decoded: The Truth Behind the New York Times #1 Bestseller
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
Authors: Martin Lunn
Rating: 5/5
Title: Da Vinci Code Decoded: The Truth Behind the New York Times #1 Bestseller
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
Authors: Martin Lunn
Rating: 5/5
Martin Lunn's "The Da Vinci Code Decoded" is proof that good things do come in small pachages. Well written and highly informative. I recommend it highly.
-HRH Prince Anthony of Ulster,Kt. S.D., Q.M., O.L.E.,
Founder of the North American Council of Princes
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
Having heard Dan Brown interviewed on NPR, I bought this book thinking it would be a cut above the standard thriller genre of airport paperbacks. Unfortunately, the character development was one-dimensional to non-existent, the prose was on a sixth-grade reading level and the story was so implausible as to insult one's intelligence. It is a shame that the years of research Brown discussed in detail with his interviewer produced such a disappointing result
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
I read this book back in July. It peaked my interest so much that I took a trip to France and Italy in September to look at the things mentioned in the book. I was in awe seeing the paintings by Leonardo, for the first time. You come away feeling that you have learned something. Not many novels do that.After this book, I read all his previous ones. And I highly recommend them, especially "Angels & Demons", another exellent Robert Langdon's adventure, which inspired me to travel to Italy to see the Vatican for myself.I can't wait for his new book.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
An amazing read!
I can barely come up with words that would adequately describe what I felt while reading this book. At just about every turn of the page, I gasped in awe. Every time I gasped, my husband would come running and ask me to read aloud what I had just read. I now have a waiting list on people who want to read my book including my mother, husband and best friend. I even got my coworkers, boss and hair stylist in on it.
Even though this book is "fiction", the theories behind modern christianity and all that is related will shake you to the core.
Although it upended everything I was ever taught, it all made perfect sense. If you like to be challenged and like to learn then this is the book for you
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
Professor Robert Langdon of Harvard University is in Paris to lecture and meet with a curator of the Louvre. Instead, the police take him from his hotel to the Louvre, where he finds the curator murdered. He is stunned to find that all evidence points to him as the murderer of a man he had never met. But Sophie Neveu, a police cryptographer and granddaughter of the curator, shocks Langdon further by maneuvering him into escaping from the police. On the run, she explains that she does not believe that he murdered her grandfather. The curator was the head of a secret society that dated back to the time of Christ and protected a great secret. She wants to find the secret. Pursued by police, they soon find that they are also pursued by the murderers. To their astonishment, they find that the secret they seek is nothing less than the Holy Grail. Their breathtaking flight extends from France to London and on to its climax in Scotland. Brown's ending of his story is less than thrilling, but the chase, which occupies most of the book, is well worth reading.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
Dan Brown's, The Da Vinci Code, is great fun, a real page turner and, in the course being entertaining it stimulates the reader to investigate a number of subjects that he might never have considered. Lighten-up, all of you literary critics, Dan Brown isn't Tolstoy, Proust, or Dickens; and I don't think he intends to be. Compare him with Ludlum, Cussler, or maybe better yet, Irving Wallace; remember The Word?
So have fun, spend a week-end curled up with this book, and if it stimulates your interest in Leonardo, Templar Knights, or the Holy Grail so be it. If Harry Potter, can get kids to read again, maybe Da Vinci can do the same for adults.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 1/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 1/5
I hate this book. I can't say it enough. I hate it so much that it has produced the "train wreck effect" in me - I'm utterly fascinated to listen to people talk about how much they loved it. It's like a bad accident. Here's the problem. Never mind the research, never mind the accuracy. How about the "fact" that the three main characters - the world's foremost, Harvard-trained, EXPERT symbologist in the WORLD, an Oxford trained scholar and Sophie (what are her qualifications?) are working themselves into a lather trying - trying so very hard - to crack one of the codes that will further their efforts. And they just can't. It's too hard. The code? My 5-year old niece could figure it out - it's written BACKWARDS. How would that stump these super-sleuths? It's such a minor detail, but such an idiotic device, I literally threw the book at the wall. Between that, the ridiculous repetition of "cliff-hanger" chapter endings and the writing, it's enough to make someone wonder - What is wrong with everybody who loves this book? Conversely, this book wins my vote for best marketing of all time. It just makes you wish that Dan Brown would fess up that he wrote this as a joke to see how much money one can make from a brilliantly-marketed, poorly written book...
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 4/5
This book really lived up to everything I'd heard about it and I can now see why it is Number One. Even though it was a little long, it was fairly fast-paced and there were enough twists and turns to definitely keep me interested. I would definitely tell others to purchase and read "The Da Vinci Code". Even though most of my friends are like me and usually stick with hardcore science-fiction or cyberpunk books like "Cryptonomicon", "Snow Crash", or "Darkeye: Cyber Hunter", among many others. I still believe, now, that "The Da Vinci Code" definitely deserves a spot on my bookshelf along with my other favorites.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 5/5
I received this book on Friday and finished reading it by Sunday morning. It is one of the best page turners I have come across in a long time. I can't remember when I have been so entertained, enlightened, and engaged in a while. It has all the things that I love in a book: mystery, suspense, a good education, and art!Other reviewers have commented on avoiding this book if you are Catholic. I am Catholic and as long as you are open to hearing about some alternative explanations, whether or not you embrace the ideology, then you will enjoy it. I found the concepts interesting and appreciated the authors use of them in context.While the end is a bit too tidy for my tastes, I can't think of any ending that I would be satisfied wit, especially because I didn't want it to end.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Publisher: Doubleday
Authors: Dan Brown
Rating: 3/5
I just got this book less than a month ago and i finished it within a week, balancing my time from work and other household responsibilities to soak my mind with this masterpiece. No, you cannot take this book as the holy gospel, and if you are swayed by this book, your faith is truely weak to begin with. Though as a man who is interested in the truth, i am now very interested in the topic this book covers. The true Holy Grail, and the "cover up" that was posed by Constantine centuries after the death of Christ. Back to the book, the story itself is so captivating that it keeps you glued to the pages for hours at a time. Though some of the escapes and plot twists took me aback as perhaps a bit too coincidental for reality to really hold true, a reader need to see past that to see the genius at work. The cyptic nature of the puzzles and the scientific brilliance that is Da Vinci is enough to addict a curious mind to the outcome of this story, and once the finale comes and goes, you only wish there was more.For those of you who are exploring Dan Brown for the first time (like me), my next suggestion would be Angels and Demons, which is the first adventure of the main character in The Da Vinci Code. If this book can single handedly grip me, a man with little time to spare, imagine what it can do to you. I warn, before you start this book, cancel any plans you had for the next few days...else you might be fashionably late...if you show up at all.
