The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown definately has a nack for making page-turners. These books (both Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons) I finished within a few days each and they are almost 500 pages long! They aren't boring at all. They both have many different things going on like one chapter will be about one person and the next about someone else... it reads so quick, in fact, i cought myself actually starting to skip chapters just so i can find out what happened to the first person! Definately leaves you on the edge of your seat after every chapter. I recommend it to everyone! The only downfall is, now that I am reading other authors, every other book seams dreadfully slow... but I'll get back into the swing of things. Take care!

 

the way Brown makes the chapters around 1 to 4 pages, you feel like you are moving just as fast paced as the characters in the book. it never got slow or overly descriptive. i even really liked the ending although most readers seemed not too. it was somewhat seetling..it left me with a feeling of peace. i cant wait to read the next book but i hope it can live up to da vinci code

 

I just finished reading it.

It is certanly a page turner, i finished it in two days. Exteremely interesting (fact wise), yet the story was such Bullshit.


*warning.......spoiler*





When the blodoy Briton turns out to be the "bad guy", it was such holywood malodrama..... make me wanna puke.

In other words, the first 50 chapters are the actually good ones. Chapter 38 was the most intriguing, it gave a lot of info (Langdon and Leighn explaining the Mary story...)... plus, most of the historic and symbologic info is in those chapters, the last 50 focus more on the bullshit fictious plotline...

The plot fit the facts, but... it was too "hollywoodesque"... It ruined the ending effect of the book.

Very good read, in general.

 

While the plot...exist...it only does to lead you to interesting facts. Mystery has taken a new turn and it's INTERESTING because a lot of it is true.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch- gnosis...in the movie they say that it is the greek word for knowledge.

In the Da Vinci code they say that gnosis is the sexual practice that combines the sexes and recognizes women as devine beings.

How could John Cameron Mitchell not know this? I'm sure he does.

Also interesting, Devine proportion and interesting, controversal facts about Da Vinci and his masterpiece "The Last Supper".

yep. the plot is silly. The prequel...Angels and Demons...is alllllmost the same book...possibly with less cool facts.

 

like all Brown's books the premise which the start of his books are based on are a lot more interesting than the way he ties the story up. good for a read (borrowed from friends) but I wouldn't buy them!

 

I'm in the middle of reading it right now. I actually like it a lot, mainly because it has a shitload of really interesting "facts" on the Holy Grail and the "true" story of Jesus. The writing itself, while it makes you not want to put the book down, is a little weak and cheesy at times. But I have to say, I'm really enjoying it. I've learned so many awesome theories and facts about history that the church has covered up (fucking Catholic church).

The story is a mystery, sprinkled with intrigue and controversy. While perhaps not the best piece of literature, it's worth reading...I'm really enjoying it.

 

i love books, i'll have to borrow them from the guy i like again i love in angels in demons the speech he gives, about how science is overtaking us about how our children's sunlight is become rays of somethin or other, loved it!

 

I read this book about a month ago and I didn't like it at all. Everyone kept saying it was so great but I had a hard time reading it. I guess I didn't get why the whole "quest" was so important. Like the lady said at the end, the story has been told several times. It was like they were daft and couldn't see that all the things they were looking at were pretty much public. I think I might have liked it a bit more if there wasn't so much build up before I read it...

 

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pretty much like everyone said already...too bad i can't just pick up a 6 page pamphlet w/ all the good info in it and none of the cheesy "suspensful" mystery shit.

 

There was actually a special 20/20 last night exploring the DaVinci Code, it was rather interesting... But I do love the book, it's fascinating!

 

i have mixed feelings about this book. on one hand the story is so intriguing. when was the last time anyone wrote a best selling novel about a math theory? i also really liked all theories about leonardo and the catholic church, which are completely believeable (who knows). but near the end i felt like brown was taking his theory a little too far and had gotten a little too intricate and i ended up losing my interest in the ending of the book. in a book that seemed to be unpredictable had a predictable ending (much like the film the village). i praise brown for his vivid story, but not on his writing style. i would recommend it to people because its worth reading even just to form your own opinion about.

 

I just finished this book, I loved it. It went really quick, his writing style made it durable. I thought all the interesting facts about art, church, etc were cool. I thought some was cheesy how Sophie happens to be solving the grail with a symbologist and a conspirator. I thought the ending was so Disney like too-- the big happy ending. Atleast they mentioned where the grail was in the epilogue. I'd prob read Angels & Demons though, heard about the science end of it; thought that sounded interesting.

 

My dad was all excited about the Da Vinci Code and lent it to me. For such a page-turner, I have to say I found it pretty disappointing and predictable. Unfortunately.

 

Anyone read this book? im in the middle of it... it's amazing! it has so much history on christianity and art and symbolism. its essentially a murder mystery but it's set in France at the Louvre and i can't even begin to explain it. but it's definately worth reading.

Ah!

 

I've not read it yet, but Dan Brown has written a couple of other books that I have read and enjoyed.
"Angels & Demons" (with the same main character, this one takes place largely surrounding the Vatican - if you like DaVinci, you'll like this one too!) and...
"Deception Point" - Different characters, and not having to do with religious history or symbolism, but still a good read.

Being cheap, I'm waiting for DaVinci to come out in paperback.

Gina

 

Yep, just finished it. It was very good

 

I just started reading it a couple days ago... it really is awesome so far.

 

It was a great book, no doubt. I raced through it in two afternoons, couldn't put it down.

Just keep in mind that this is a nove, not a history book. There's very little evidence beyond rumor and legend that Mary M made it to France. It's about as plausable as the "theory" that Jesus was drugged on the cross, didn't die, but fled to France, or Ireland. I believe the Mormons expanded on this and said that Jesus, with some Irish monks, made it to America and...well, it's just a crazy story.