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Da Vinci Code (Paperback)

Brown, Dan

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Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.

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Categories: Fiction, Fiction Crime & Thrillers

Authors

Dan Brown

Barcode

9780552149518

Binding

Paperback

Country

Country of Publication

Date of Publication

1 March 2004

ISBN

9780552149518

Number of Pages

560

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Subjects

Adventure
Cryptographers - Fiction
Religious articles - Fiction
Suspense fiction - gsafd
Crime & Thriller
AF:Thriller

Title

The Da Vinci Code

Year

2004

Product Reviews (5)

Marius, CENTURY CITY. 29 March 2006

Ah, Mr Brown, what have you been up to? I suggest that you all go and check out the DA VINCI LEGACY. this book was written in 1983 and the similarities between it and Mr Brown's book are quite scary.Do a google, you will be amazed. Oh btw, you can get The Da Vinci Legacy from Take 2.

Fabian, . 20 March 2006

Dan Brown's smooth, informative style of writing really captures the imagination and spirit of the reader.

With a brilliantly thought-out and extensively researched plot-line, he delves into the psyche of the reader, pulling levers and pushing buttons you didn't even know were there.
Where other fact-based authors fail, Dan Brown succeeds in enveloping you in a world that very-well may exist.
Drawing on 2000 years of human history, he creates a fast-paced murder-mystery that not only suffices as an excellent thriller, but also succeeds as a literary tour of England and France, a handbook for symbology and a beginner's guide to riddle-breaking.

Going to enormous measures to ensure the accuracy of many of the facts in the book, he manipulates those facts in such a way as to benefit and progress his plot, in an effort to create an entirely plausible scenario. By his own admittion, many of the facts that progress this storyline were used entirely out of context and as such, even for those of the affected religeous affiliation, this makes for an excellent read, as long as the story is read for what it is: A story.

At the risk of sounding cliched, this was a definite page-turner and I quite literally couldn't put it down.
A must-read for anybody who plans on watching the movie that will be released in May of this year.

Godfrey, South Africa. 12 April 2005

One of those you read about it in fiction and before you know it ,it's happening all around you! A complete no-no for Catholics and Rome.

Jean, South Africa. 17 March 2005

Not the classic it's been made out to be. Mr. Brown had the chance to make a real classic but instead blew it on all the cliches he could muster. It takes more than half of the book just to get the plot moving along and even afterwards its the same scene played over and over again, with different puzzles.

Side note, if you are easily offended by anti-religous views then you should avoid it. (when i say religous i mean the church).

Riaan, Louis Trichardt. 20 March 2006

I really liked this book. It's got a fast pace, interesting characters and really makes you think. Dan Brown has got an easy to read writing style and keeps the suspense going right through the whole book. He really did his research and sparked a worldwide debate.

That being said, I didn't like that it was basically the reworked plot of Angels & Demons.

Still a thought provoking, interesting read though. I recommend it.