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1、The Da Vinci Code Book ReviewThe Da Vinci Code is, in a manner of speaking, two books in one. The first is a very good suspense thriller. Author Dan Brown must either play or at least be aware of computer games; the plot has a computer game feel to it. The protagonists are dropped almost immediately
2、 into a situation of peril and must extricate themselves by solving a series of puzzles, with one puzzles solution granting the privilege of looking at another puzzle, which also requires a solution.There are two protagonists, Robert Landon and Sophie Neveu - Robert an expert on religious symbology
3、and a Harvard professor, and Sophie a cryptologist and Parisian police agent. Both have skill sets, not by accident, which allow for great success at solving puzzles - at least the type of puzzles presented here.The opening chapter is a grabber. Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre museum, is
4、 shot in the stomach by an albino monk named Silas and left to bleed slowly to death. Jacques Sauniere is, as chance and the author would have it, the grandfather of Sophie Neveu.The time it takes Jacques to die is time enough for him to set up the first of the puzzles to be solved. His body is foun
5、d naked, arms and legs splayed, with writings (written by Jacques in his own blood) which are meant to be secret coded messages to his granddaughter, Sophie. Robert Langdon is drawn into this murder (and its startling aftermath) as the Inspector on the case, Bezu Faches, believes he is the killer. S
6、ophie, knowing Robert is innocent, helps him escape from the Musee du Louvre, and the chase (and puzzle solving) is on.The plot turns are suspenseful, the mysteries and their solutions clever, even ingenious in some cases. This is a true nail-biter. The problem is with the second book incorporated i
7、nto this first rate thriller. The plot here revolves around an intellectual belief that Jesus (yes, the Christian Jesus) had a love affair and/or was married to Mary Magdalene, who was in fact pregnant with Jesuss child at the time of the crucifixion - a fact supposedly known by the Church and cover
8、ed up. The thing everyone is being chased and killed for, is the secret of the location of the holy grail, a location known to many who belonged to a secret society throughout history, including Leonardo Da Vinci. No, the holy grail is not, under this theory, the cup Jesus drank wine from during the
9、 Last Supper, but rather a metaphor for Mary Magdalene. She is the cup that held Jesuss child: she is the true holy grail.Da Vinci (and many others in history, including Walt Disney) have made allusions in their works to the truth of the grail. Da Vinci knew the truth. How do we know? Dan Brown has
10、a grail expert named Teabing tell us. See Saint Peter in Da Vincis great work The Last Supper? That is clearly not a man, but a woman. Not only a woman, but it must be Mary Magdalene!Sure, who else? Another of the authors expert characters says: Finally, Teabing said still in reference to Da Vincis
11、The Last Supper, if you view Jesus and Mary Magdalene formerly Saint Peter as compositional elements rather than as people, you will see another obvious shape leap out at you. He paused. A letter of the alphabet.Sophie saw it at once.an enormous, flawlessly formed letter M. What does this compositio
12、nal M mean? Does it stand for the other Mary (Jesuss mother)? No, does it stand for Master of the Arts, which Da Vinci no doubt believed himself to be? Did Da Vinci divine the future, see Walt Disneys work, and create a great M as tribute to Mickey Mouse? Or is this M merely a compositional element
13、in a great work of art? Anyone who has taken art history and art theory in college knows that Xs and Ws and, yes, Ms are common compositional techniques to balance a painting. But this particular M must mean only one thing as far as Teabing is concerned. It means Mary Magdalene gave birth to Jesuss
14、child and Da Vinci knew it!This kind of conclusion is only possible when someone already has a conclusion and is looking to invent reasons to support it. Not very scientific, nor very logical. It is the intellectual equivalent of beer drinkers believing they were picked up by aliens and taken for a
15、ride in a spaceship. The author might as well have had everyone running around searching for the secret location of a box of alien bones, proof of visitors from outer space.And all of this theory is presented in a pedantic tone which slows down the action, although the author does do a good job of n
16、ot letting it slow it down too much. So, four stars for the action/suspense/puzzle plot and one star for the silly theory that is the reason why everyone is killing everyone. That rounds out to about 2 1/2 stars.Book Review: The Da VinciCodeHarvard symbology professor Robert Langdon is awakened in the middle of the night in his Paris hotel and begins a wild ride that starts as a murder mystery and soon finds La
