The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown - Review
Robert Langdon is a Professor at Harvard University specialized in religious Symbology. Once he went to Paris to give a speech and meet Jacques Sauniere, curator of Louvre. Unfortunately, Jacques is murdered in Louvre and the French Judicial Police suspect Langdon, takes him from his hotel to Louvre. Jacques left some clues of the keystone for which he was murdered. Bezu Fache, captain of French Judicial Police, believes Robert is the killer of Jacques.
Then enters Sophie Neveu, an agent from Department Cryptology and grand daughter of Jacques, believes Robert is innocent and the clues left behind were meant for her. She manages to escape from Louvre along with Robert. She analyzes that his grand father adjusted himself within a circle to imitate Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting, 'The Vitruvian Man'. They decipher the clues and find the key left for her by her grand father.
Another story runs in parallel about Opus Dei, a Christian society in United States, who’s Bishop is looking for a keystone to unlock the secret of the Holy Grail. Bishop's disciple Silas is in search of keystone in Paris.
Sophie and Langdon found that Jacques was a member of secret society called the Priory of Sion, whose members included Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo and of course Da Vinci. Sophie and Langdon's race continues with deciphering clues, anagrams, a lot of analysis on Holy Grail. They continue to solve each puzzle they encounter. Finally they succeeded to trace the location of keystone. I'm not so impressed with the conclusion.
Dan Brown managed to keep the thrill and suspense throughout all the chapters of book. Mystery in this book is so fascinating. It's a wonderful fiction.
So, grab this book, have happy reading. You comments are welcome on this review.
posted by Anonymous @ 10:38 AM
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The tiny print of the book is extremely sleep inducing, it never dissapoints me when I am in need of a siesta :-D
The DaVinci Code was my first Dan Brown. I put off reading it till a few months ago. Then I went on to read the other Dan Brown books and was horribly disappointed. Brown seems to have hit upon a Bollywood type formula that he applies to each of his novels. It has reached a point where the reader can very easily guess the ending by the time he or she starts the third chapter! Even more predictable than the average Hindi movie!!! I am never touching a Dan Brown again. I am very happy that I read all the Dan Brown books on my PDA and didn't spend any of my (oh too limited) book budget on his novels.
Spend your money elsewhere :-)
It takes all to make the world huh? I liked the book !
But, one should look at it purely
as a fictional work, people believe that many of the 'facts' in the book are untrue.
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