Now it seems like everyone’s talking about Da Vinci Code, I am asked at least 5 times on whether I read Da Vinci Code. That’s a book by Dan Brown, also author of Angels & Demons, perhaps one of the most controversial fiction titles ever written.
Now that the movie is coming up, more people start to talk about it. The controversial part lies in Jesus Christ fathering Mary Magdalene a child. That statement is enough to make the church curse, I mean, scream.
My mother just went to church yesterday to listen about the mistakes that Dan Brown made in Da Vinci Code. It is the church latest efforts to attempt to let believers understand Brown’s book better. Because, once again, Brown made some factual errors. And the greatest error is perhaps to claim his book is historically accurate.
_(The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. Book cover.)_
Fictional character Robert Langdon is a professor with Havard university, an expert in symbology, a study that Brown invent some time back. Langdon got involved in the death of Sophie Neveu’s grandfather, a museum curator. Neveu and Langdon then set out to find out who killed Neveu’s grandfather only to discover nothing less than the greatest conspiracy the world would ever see.
The style of writing is similar to Angels & Demons - captivating till the last page, lots of history, lots of exageration with history and trying to make Robert Langdon the second smartest man alive, first is Brown himself of course. Unfortunately, the very attempts to boost Langdon’s character intelligence in the book didn’t quite work for me. I cringed on each moment Brown tries to make Langdon smart.
A typical sentence would be like - Most people believe so and so, but experts in the field all know that blah blah blah. No points for figuring out the expert is Robert Langdon himself. It just occurs too many times, till I feel kinda stupid at times. The suspense is still there. I have to admit that that book is one of those I read fastest. I keep wanting to find out what happen next.
I would give The Da Vinci Code novel 4 out of 5 for being fun to read unfortunately historically incorrect in many pages. The Da Vinci Code movie would probably do well too. I still felt Angels & Demons is better, do give it a try if you like The Da Vinci Code.
