The Da Vinci Code

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Paperback, 454 pages

English language

Published March 2006 by Anchor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-307-27767-1
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OCLC Number:
1230282296

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While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever. --back cover

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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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