The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

[SnoopDog]

What a superb book.

I got it as a gift, picked it up and almost couldn't turn it down.

It's incredibly thrilling and suspenseful, well written, has a great theme and an even better story. Full of riddles, twists and surprises that all make sense.
It even has some nice action scenes.

The ending is very well excecuted because with a delicate subject like this it could easily have been ridicoulous.

The only complaint is that there is little character developement.

Other than that I highly recommend it for those who need a good thriller.

By the way, I hope someone makes a movie out of this. Shouldn't be too difficult because it's almost written as a script. (In terms of pacing, action, story developement)

Snoopy

P.S.: Has anyone read other books by Dan Brown? Can you suggest more?

 

[CrazyyAngel]

I have read it too ... couple of month ago. It pretty good. But actually I don't remember much anymore about it . Just that it was pretty good and that I couldn't turn it down either.

I have also read all his other books. "Angels and Demons" (Illuminati in German) is pretty well written, although predictable in places. "Deception Point" (Meteor in German) is also a pretty good, nice thriller. "Digital Fortress" (hasn't been published in German so far) is his first book and is about a unbreakable computer code. Also very nice. You see, there is no clear cut next-to-read novel of his, he has only written 4 books, so you can read them all.

CA

 

[SnoopDog]

I have read it too ... couple of month ago. It pretty good. But actually I don't remember much anymore about it . Just that it was pretty good and that I couldn't turn it down either.

I have also read all his other books. "Angels and Demons" (Illuminati in German) is pretty well written, although predictable in places. "Deception Point" (Meteor in German) is also a pretty good, nice thriller. "Digital Fortress" (hasn't been published in German so far) is his first book and is about a unbreakable computer code. Also very nice. You see, there is no clear cut next-to-read novel of his, he has only written 4 books, so you can read them all.

CA

Thnx for the info crazy ! A friend of mine actually has 'Illuminati', so I'm gonna read that one. If I like it as well I'll make sure to get a hand on his other books.

I actually thought he had written more but then again four popular novels isn't so bad either.

Snoopy

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Sweet'n'petite got the book for Xmas and we had a big, weeks-long conversation about it here in the AH. If you search you should be able to find the thread.

A book called "The Rule of Four" is supposed to put the puzzle aspects of Da Vinci to shame.

---dr.M.

 

[sweetnpetite]

What a superb book.

I got it as a gift, picked it up and almost couldn't turn it down.

It's incredibly thrilling and suspenseful, well written, has a great theme and an even better story. Full of riddles, twists and surprises that all make sense.
It even has some nice action scenes.

The ending is very well excecuted because with a delicate subject like this it could easily have been ridicoulous.

The only complaint is that there is little character developement.

Other than that I highly recommend it for those who need a good thriller.

By the way, I hope someone makes a movie out of this. Shouldn't be too difficult because it's almost written as a script. (In terms of pacing, action, story developement)

Snoopy

P.S.: Has anyone read other books by Dan Brown? Can you suggest more?

A movie is in the works.

Yeah for those of us who liked it.

 

[CrazyyAngel]

Re: Re: The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

A movie is in the works.

Yeah for those of us who liked it.

Yeah read that too ... with Tom Hanks in the leading role.

CA

 

[steve w]

Read it, hated it.

Sorry.

Thought it was trite and written by an adolescent. Shocked to find it was a grown adult.

Would kill for his royalties, though....

 

[Sabledrake]

I thought Da Vinci Code was okay, entertaining enough but certainly not all it was cracked up to be (TWO slots on the NY Times bestseller list for weeks and weeks and weeks? ye gods!).

But then, I'm married to a guy who is a total Templar conspiracy nut, has read Holy Blood, Holy Grail and all those other books ... so I wasn't at all surprised by anything in Code. Plus, as a longtime gamer, I was solving the puzzles way ahead of the characters. Enh.

After, I read Angels & Demons, and loved it, thought it was the far superior read (if a trifle outlandish there toward the very end). Yet, that same guy I'm married to has also been a total Illuminati conspiracy nut too ... I don't know, the story just worked better for me.

My in-laws just dropped off a stack of their old books, which include some of Brown's other titles. I'm going to give them a whirl.

Sabledrake

 

[Elsie Grey]

I loved The Da Vinci Code! I thought it was a great book and I couldn't put it down. Then I read Demons and Angels (finished sometime early this morning during a bout of pain racked insomnia) and I have to say its so much better than The Da Vinci Code! How long do you reckon it takes him to research all the symbology and stuff though?

Elsie

xxx

 

[sweetnpetite]

I too read Angels and Demons but I felt that the DaVinci code was better and more skillfully writen. I figured since he wrote Angels first, he had just gotten better with practice. It really never occured to me that anyone would think that A&D was better, lol.

Symbology of course is a madeup term I think it's supposed to be a blend of symbolism and mythology. D.B. Probably didn't spend a lot of time researching symbolism as a separate topic (although its quite intersting)-- you find a lot of it when you're researching conspiracy theories. (the symbol on P&G products is a tribute to the fact that the head of the company is a Satanist... the circled K on snapple is because it's owned by the Klan... the eye on the dollar bill stands for the illuminati...) Symbols are the language of Conspiracy therories. In reality, symbols mean many things-- not just one concrete meaning.

As to the bestseller list, it's been there over a year. It is pretty crazy. We should all do so well, hu?

"Dan Brown has literally outdone himself: For the first time in the history of bestseller lists, one and the same author is at Nos.1, 2, 3 and 4 in the “Sunday Times” list of paperback nonfiction bestsellers. Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” continues at the top, with Dan Brown’s “Deception Point” hard on its heels at No.2. Meanwhile, Mr. Brown’s “Angels And Demons” moved up two slots to No.3, where it hovers just above “Digital Fortress” (all Corgi), this week’s fourth bestseller by Dan Brown. And as if all that weren’t enough, the new deluxe illustrated edition of Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” made its debut in the U.K. bestseller lists this week, bringing the author’s total to five. Bantam’s four-color publication “The Da Vinci Code: The Illustrated Edition,” with over 160 illustrations showing the symbols, architecture, art and maps of the historical sites the novel revolves around, enters the hardcover fiction list at No.9."


http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/breakingnews.html