The book describes the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentacle drawn on his s... (show more)
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So much of it stolen from a book written almost 20 years earlier which was not as entertaining but entertaining none the less.
This book wasn't awful. Be careful, though, that you don't take this sort of tabloid history too seriously. It's fun, of course, to give ourselves the willies by pretending we all dance on the strings of a massive conspiracy involving the Freemasons, Catholic Church, aliens, Bigfoot, the Rosicrucians, the Bilderberg Society, and the Loch Ness Monster. It's irresponsible to actually believe it, and thus take our own reason out of the driver's seat. Dan Brown has a habit of saying, "no one can prove this DIDN'T happen, and if it did..." By stacking supposition upon conjecture, he is able to build a quite tall, though wobbly, house of cards leading wherever he chooses. Read and be entertained, but don't think for a moment that his history is accurate or even marginally researched. Another user recommended Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Be aware that part of Dan Brown's rubbish is based upon the rubbish in that book.
mmm complete rubbish, if you really are interested in the grail stuff go read something like Holy blood Holy Grail.
Although this book is fictitious it claims certain things as fact when they are not fact. It attempts to promote of gnostic beliefs, denying the deity of Christ, as well as His death at crucifixion, and His resurrection. It attempts to use gnostic gospels (which are themselves fraudulent) to support it's claims, and conveniently manages to ignore the parts that contradict it. Anyone who seriously examines all the evidence for themselves would come to see that the claims of this book are not justified at all. Unfortunately far too many have read this fictitious work as though everything it claimed where actually true, without checking it out for themselves.
One of the best books I have read...and it may be closer to the truth than some want to admit.
There are so many twists. But the pace of reading became slow when I went through the book. The finishing is not good.
I had a roommate in college that looked like he could've been a decendent of Jesus
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