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“Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown
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Werner Frisch
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By Werner Frisch
Published on 11/8/2007
 
“Da Vinci Code” is one of the bestselling novels by renowned author Dan Brown. More than 40 million copies have been sold and counting. This is one of the highly researched books you may ever find and a lot of attention is paid in the details and making it interesting to the reader. It is a fast paced thriller which is bound to consume you till the end.
“Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown

“Da Vinci Code” is one of the bestselling novels by renowned author Dan Brown. More than 40 million copies have been sold and counting. This is one of the highly researched books you may ever find and a lot of attention is paid in the details and making it interesting to the reader. It is a fast paced thriller which is bound to consume you till the end. It has a controversial plot based on conspiracy theories relating to Jesus’ Marriage and the Christian church trying to hide this fact. Also that the cup ‘Holy Grail’ is actually ‘Mary’, the vessel which carried the children of Jesus.

“Da Vinci Code” has become a highly successful novel and is being translated in forty different languages for regional readers and to further boost the sales of the book and earn more dollars for the publishers and the writer. A movie has been made with the same name ‘Da Vinci Code’ carrying his crypts and several television programs have been aired for people to speak for or against Christianity which is the central theme of the book.

Brown’s novel, “Da Vinci Code” points to cryptic messages which are believed to be included by Leonardo Da Vinci in his arts. The protagonist has to decipher the clues among the artwork, architecture and riddles to solve a murder mystery and also to save own self. The novel refers Leonardo as the member of an ancient secret society ‘Priory of Sion’ who was devoted to preserve the truth of Jesus’ marriage with Mary Magdalene and that Jesus and Mary even had children and the she is the successor to Jesus and the concept of ‘Sacred Feminine’.

The best virtue of the book is that it’s fast paced thriller with some interesting riddles has an incomparable idea for a suspense novel. The main characters in the book discuss some very controversial religious issues as facts and even Brown’s “Facts” page terms them as actual facts. This may annoy or offend many readers. The book is a nice thriller but still not as good as Brown’s ‘Angels and Demons’ which is a must read for any lover of thriller books.

A little about the author – Dan Brown

After Graduating from Amherst College, Dan Brown spent some time as a singer and songwriter. He has recorded four compositions namely SynthAnimals, Perspective, Dan Brown, and Angels and Demons. Dan joined the Phillips Exeter Academy as a teacher in 1993, but quite his job three years later for writing dedicatedly.

Almost all of his work is about thriller fiction except a humor book which he co-authored with his wife ‘Blythe Brown’. Besides that, he has written several popular books like ‘Digital Fortress’ in 1998, ‘Angels and Demons’ in year 2000, ‘Deception Point’ in 2001 and then ‘Da Vinci Code’ released in the year 2003.

Brown’s previous works to the ‘Da Vinci Code’ were moderately read when they were released, but his fourth book ‘Da Vinci Code’ became a bestseller and even pushed the sales of his previous works to the bestsellers list.