다빈치 코드

Hardcover, 623 pages

Korean language

Published 2004 by [Bet'elsŭman?].

ISBN:
978-89-5759-105-5
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OCLC Number:
1077686295

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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient …

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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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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Appreciation
  • Art museum curators
  • Crimes against
  • Secret societies
  • Cryptographers
  • Grail
  • Art appreciation

Places

  • Paris (France)
  • France
  • Paris