The Da Vinci Code

, #2

Paperback, 590 pages

English language

Published 2009 by Corgi Books.

ISBN:
978-0-552-17134-2
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A QUEST ALMOST AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF AN OBJECT THOUGHT LOST FOREVER A DEADLY RACE TO POSSESS IT

The Louvre, Paris: the elderly curator of the museum has been violently murdered in the Grand Gallery. Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to decipher the baffling codes which the police find alongside the body. As he and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to an age-old mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.

Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever...

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This book was a pretty enjoyable read. The chapter endings and expository text were unnecessarily formulaic--at times painfully so--but that actually got to be kind of charming, after a while. The puzzles and logical leaps were entertaining, if somewhat implausibly executed (seriously--very minor early spoiler--is the Fibonacci series not something EVERYONE learns about in math class? I remember a Donald Duck video that mentioned it...), though I was kind of disappointed in the last one, which was upsettingly obvious. Worse, he reused a plot device he'd already used to stretch the reader's credulity earlier, at the SAME TIME. So that was lame, but the book as a whole was still fun. And far more accessible than Holy Blood Holy Grail, which I'm still only halfway through.

It wasn't meant to be an intellectual treatise; don't read it like it is one, and you'll likely enjoy it.

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