The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
454 pages
The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown is a mysterious story that follows Robert Langdon, the story's protagonist who is a renown professor of religious iconology and symbology who stumbles upon a complex, nefarious dilemma while in Paris, France to talk at the American University of Paris.
The novel begins with a phone call unrecognizable to Langdon, but he has no awareness to where he is. The phone call is from the concierge monsieur who states that there is urgency for his presence. Jerome Collet, a Direction Centrale Police Judiciaire, comes to his hotel door, immediately showing him a photograph of Jacques Sauniere lying in his own pool of blood with a his name stated in Sauniere's notebook along with a decryption code. Little does Langdon know, Collet suspects him of murdering Sauniere.
However, important view of points of this book tells us that there in an underlying culprit who wishes to obtain and achieve goals of his religious belief, Opus Dei. An albino Catholic monk named Silas is the underlying culprit who works under the "Teacher" and wishes to obtain the keystone in search of the Holy Grail.
Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu are always one step ahead of Silas, who is trying to obtain the cryptex key. Langdon and Neveu work together in order to find the hidden treasures of her grandfather, and to prevent Silas from obtaining this key that is a crucial component of the Catholic Church in Paris.
Successfully, they manage to obtain the Holy Grail, but are astonished by what they later realize bout Neveu's family.
Overall, reading the book has made me love the plot even more after watching the movie several times. I liked how Dan Brown incorporated intriguing parts of text that left me pondering about the next step of what they would do. One chapter of the novel is too little to satisfy my needs-- you cannot put this book down without reading the next and next.
Nikk Chhou
Seems like a great book. I like how the plot incorporates some of the mysteries that have been around since the Renaissance because it gives a possible answer to something that no one is really sure of.
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ReplyDeleteI love this book! I remember reading it at the beginning of the year, and I couldn't put it down. This was definitely a page turner, putting aside the fact that it's a mystery/thriller book. I haven't watched the movie yet; I've been meaning to actually, so I'll watch the movie for this over break for sure!
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