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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Sequel to Angels and Demons, another adventure by Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon. This time, murder in the Louvre leads the main character down a trail in search of the Holy Grail. Secret societies such as the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei complicate things as Langdon, accompanied by the murder victim’s daughter elude French police and attempt to both find and protect the secrets of the grail from all, even the Vatican. Brown is a decent writer with a flair for drama and cliffhangers. Taking a decent bit of research and twisting it into a conspiracy thriller is perfect in this day and age and he knows how to manipulate the New York Times best seller crowd. The perversion of that research to make more cliffhangers at times is very tedious. Dividing the book into 100+ chapters of an average of 6 pages length has to go. Another novel made for Hollywood. The infallibility of the main characters is infuriating. The abundance of plots twists and revelations is interesting at first, but by the end is underwhelming. Not the great book that everyone seems to think. More of an airplane-pass-the-time-page-turner type of thing. I can’t really see myself re-reading this.  loafhunter13 | Dec 28, 2009 |  My belated foray into the world of conspiracy theories combined with ancient gnostic heresies. If one temporarily suspends any shred of rational thought, the book is enjoyable. Otherwise it is difficult to see how it was taken so seriously. Rapid Rating: Only read this is you are in a position of leadership that requires you to be on top of what popular culture is trying to pass off as theology. www.comingstobrazil.com (  ) brazilnut72 | Dec 27, 2009 | Starts out with equal measures of the absurd and the ingenious. Then quickly jettisons the latter and wallows in the former. (  ) jburlinson | Dec 18, 2009 | Quite possibly one of the worst books I've read in a while. Overwritten, overplotted, ridiculous in its main idea that somehow bearing a child makes a woman a sort of feminist icon (I told you it was not a good book), this piece of sensationalism would have been much better if it had been ruthlessly edited to one-half its length. Only for the terminally bored. (  ) bohemima | Dec 9, 2009 | my mother recommended this to me while i was sick with the flu. i read it in about two or three hours and it didn't suck out loud. slick pacing, interesting puzzles, and a subversive topic. Dan Brown is, at the very least, the Umberto Eco for the Oprah-crowd. ( ) lanewilkinson | Dec 4, 2009 | 
 Whenever I read a 454 page book in one sitting, it's probably a safe bet for me to think that other people will like the book. Not that my criteria for excellence necessarily matches that of the literary masses -- but the words "breakout thriller" certainly apply here. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is going to make publishing history. Trust me. There are already tables at the local Barnes & Nobles featuring books about the Freemasons, biographies of Leonardo Da Vinci, guidebooks to the Louvre and Renaissance art, all centered around Brown's book. And the book has been out less than two weeks. The word for ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a rare invertible palindrome. Rotated 180 degrees on a horizontal axis so that it is upside down, it denotes the maternal essence that is sometimes linked to the sport of soccer. Read right side up, it concisely conveys the kind of extreme enthusiasm with which this riddle-filled, code-breaking, exhilaratingly brainy thriller can be recommended. That word is wow.  The story occasionally strains credibility early on. How could a dying man, one wonders, have time to write out intricate mind puzzles even if as Sophie explains, her grandfather "entertained himself as a young man by creating anagrams of famous works of art." Fortunately, Brown's pacing doesn't leave too much time for questions. From the explosive start to the explosive finish, The Da Vinci Code is one satisfying thriller. I see movie rights being sold already. Pick this one up on a long flight home and you'll never know where the time went.
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