The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
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Author: Dan BrownBrand: PBS
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-18
ISBN: 0385504209
Number of pages: 454
Publisher: Doubleday
Product features:
- Hardcover
- English Language
- Acid Free text block
- Published April 2003
Book Reviews of The Da Vinci Code
Book Review: a pop sclockmeister looking for a quick buck.
Summary: 1 Stars
This book represents such flagrant ignorance of the elements of suspense and mystery writing that it is deplorable. The main characters are so capable of easing themselves out of predicaments that there is no tension whatsoever. They could walk into the Oval Office and use a phone while discussing medieval symbology, apparently. Throw a bar of soap out the window and all of the security forces in the district will chase it. There are such an endless series of these episodes that it reads like a Monty Python plot. The keystone evidently refers to the French and English cops. Only Jim Carey could enact the exorbitant character expressions and reactions the author ties to revelations, events, and dialog. Forget the themes, a new meaning to the Holy Grail and the subjugation of feminism by the founders of Christianity. It is so pedantic in its portrayal that it is, at best, marginal. Maintaining the status quo through secret societies is portrayed as, apparently, appropriate, if shrouded by enough symbolic ritual and riddle to keep a mystic swimming. References to real questions of religious reform, feminism, the priesthood, right to life versus abortion, and so on are ignored, so as not to offend any element of the book-buying public. But there is a deep level of conspiracy and cover up evident herein! How do Doubleday and the NY Times manage to cook the books and keep this appalling pulp number one on the best seller's list week after week?
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