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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781400079179 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Enjoy a great thriller? You will love this relentlessly paced tale. It's full of fascinating historical details about western art, the mystery of the grail, and hidden codes. You won't be able to put it down but you'll want to look up secret societies from the Knights Templar to Opus Dei. Sound far-fetched? Well, FBI traitor Robert Hanson was a member of Opus Dei. Hmmmmmm!! Recommended by Kathi Kirby
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last.
As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece — from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.
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"A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure." People
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"Thriller writing doesn't get any better than this." The Denver Post
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"[A]n exhaustively researched page-turner....Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts." Publishers Weekly
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"[A] gleefully erudite suspense novel....Not since the advent of Harry Potter has an author so flagrantly delighted in leading readers on a breathless chase and coaxing them through hoops." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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"Brown solidifies his reputation as one of the most skilled thriller writers on the planet with his best book yet, a compelling blend of history and page-turning suspense." Library Journal
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"[A]n ingenious mixture of paranoid thriller, art history lesson, chase story, religious symbology lecture and anti-clerical screed, and it's the most fun you can have between the sort of covers that aren't 300-count Egyptian cotton....[A] hugely entertaining book." Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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"By pulp thriller standards, Code is brainy stuff....[I]t ain't Clive Cussler. But it's not Umberto Eco, either...a straightforward, code-cracking mystery quest for the Sunday Jumble set. (Grade: B)" Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly
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"Brown keeps the pace fast, the puzzles that lead to the Grail are exceedingly clever, and there is a flurry of surprises and betrayals before the mystery is finally solved." Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post Book World
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"The Da Vinci Code mixes page-turning suspense with art history, architecture and religious history." Ayesha Court, USA Today
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"Despite being hampered by clunky flashback sequences and place descriptions that read like tourist brochures, the story is full of brain-teasing puzzles and fascinating insights into religious history and art." Frank Sennett, Booklist
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"[A] dazzling performance...a delightful display of erudition....Brown delivers a crackling, intricate mystery, complete with breathtaking escapes and several stunning surprises. It's challenging, exciting, and a whole lot more." Jim Fusilli, Boston Globe
Synopsis:
< b> An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.< /b> < br> < b> A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.< /b> < br> < b> An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.< /b> < br> < br> As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, < b> The Da Vinci Code< /b> is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece& #8212; from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.
About the Author
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, and Deception Point. He lives in New England.
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bongsunah, May 28, 2008 (view all comments by bongsunah)
This story starts with Jacques Sauniere who is the Museum Louvre's curator's death. The policemen designate that Robert Langdon is a suspect in a murder when they saw him at the spot of murder. Robert Langdon is symboligist of Harvard university. So Robert Langdon is almost arrested by the policemen, but Sophie, who is the granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere, helps Robert Langdon. So Robert Langdon and Sophie follow up the scent that Jacques Sauniere bequeaths about ciphers. So they come to know about the Holy Grail (which means the cup that had Jesus Christ's blood in it), who is wife of Jesus Christ, and descendants of Jesus Christ. And they also came to know about the mess, which the Christian religion tries to defend against the Priory of Sion. Finally they find the last secret. It is that Sophie is the last of the descendants of Jesus Christ, and that Robert Langdon found the Holy Grail.
I think The Da Vinci code's theme could be about Jesus Christ's marriage version. Jesus christ preserved the Holy Grail, which is Mary Magdalene. It's a woman and she married Jesus and bear to progeny. Also her name is same as the prostitute of the Bible. This content is very defferent with the Bible's contents.
This book is kind of interesting because I never read that kind of book before. I especially like Da Vinci's art construction and Rober Langdon's reasoning competence. While I read this book, I came to know more about Da Vinci's art and symbol technology than before.
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OLLLGA, April 14, 2008 (view all comments by OLLLGA)
To Simon Cowell's Fan:
A movie is never better than the book.
Movies are for the unimaginative, with a book so much is left to the imagination.
And for those of you that think the book is poorly written, I must say I was too caught up in the constant cliff hangers to notice the lack eloquence in the writing. Perhaps I shall re-read and look for evidence of the critiques I have just seen, as of now though I must give it a 5.
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Julia Callahan, February 16, 2008 (view all comments by Julia Callahan)
The story is compelling, I'll give him that, but really this book is nothing more than a historically inaccurate high-speed chase. It's fun for a little while, but gets tedious and tiresome...and the cop-out ending made me literally throw the book across my bedroom. It's a search for the holy grail that finds nothing remotely grail-like.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781400079179
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Anchor Books
- Subject:
- Thrillers
- Subject:
- Grail
- Subject:
- Art museum curators.
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Publication Date:
- March 28, 2006
- Binding:
- Mass Market Paperbound
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 489
- Dimensions:
- 6.88x4.26x1.09 in. .52 lbs.
