Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

*INCLUDES AN EXTRACT FROM ORIGIN,THE NEW THRILLER BY DAN BROWN: OUT NOW* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to 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 a 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...

(Robert Langdon Book 2)

Caroline 

“Not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.”

Macy HB

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Atharva Bedekar

Anthony

I really enjoyed the amount of detail in this book. It's very thought provoking and fun to read. I'm definitely into Dan Brown's use of facts mixed with outrageous ideas. Kept me wanting more to the very end.

Vilandra

Rips off Arturo Perez-Reverte's writing style and plot points.

Veronica 

I need to know if this is real RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

Lacy W

Time to commence more incoherent fangirl screaming.

Why is this series so damn good? Ugh. 

Moving on to the actual review before it just becomes screeching. 

So. This is the second installment in the Da Vinci Code series. We have the same MC, Robert Langdon. He is still a professor of religious symbology at Harvard. After giving a lecture, he is woken up to the French police at his hotel door. He quickly becomes a suspect in the murder of a staff at the Louvre museum. It's up to Robert and Sophie Nevue, a cypher and granddaughter of the victim, to clear Robert's name and stop the killer. 

Of course, the book is so much more than that. This time there is involvement with the Knight Templar, the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail. I do not know of Opus Dei is a real thing but I'll mention them in my list as well. I'm sure everybody knows what the Holy Grail is but I'm sure the Knights Templar, Opus Dei and Priory of Sion aren't as familiar. 

The Priory of Sion is a pagan goddess worship brotherhood. Before y'all freak out over the word pagan, let me tell what pagan is (according to the book. Again, I'm not an expert but I'm going by the book and the author, who I am sure has done extensive research on this topic). Pagan simply means nature worship. The Priory of Sion believe that in order for the world to function correctly, we need both men and women. They think women help the world achieve balance in many ways. 

The Opus Dei group is not like that. They are a conservative Catholic group that encouraged members to make sacrifices in their lives for the work of God. They also don't treat women well because of the origin of the Original Sin. Eve technically took a bit of the apple from the forbidden tree first so therefore, they basically think it's all women's fault that there is sin. 

The Knights Templar is to help guard the secret of what the Holy Grail actually is. They were originally in charge of it before they were cruelly slaughtered by a Pope many many years ago. 

(view spoiler)[ Back when this book was first released there was a whole big uproar about it. The reason? The Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene, the "whore". Her and Jesus got married and had a child and the bloodline was still going long after Mary died. I still remember everybody freaking out about it and calling for protests of this book. In all honesty, I could believe it. I mean, Jesus may have been considered the Son of God but he had a human body. A human body that I'm sure had needs and wants just like everyone else. So you know, why not? Why isn't Jesus allowed to have a wife? I would think he would get lonely and irritated hanging around guys all the time. But that's just my thoughts.  (hide spoiler)]

Overall, the book is incredible as you can probably guess from the beginnings of this review. I apologize if it is longer than normal. I feel that having a little bit of background before diving in is also helpful. All the information presented in the book is easy to follow again, even if you aren't a history buff like me. So go ahead. Read the book. You'll like it. 

 skip the movie, though. it's okay but not great.

Albert Dong

Haven't finished a book so quickly in a long time

Siya S

★★★ 3.5 Stars

I think the whole series is kinda ruined with they decided to cast Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. 



Like, don't get me wrong Tom Hanks is probably one of the greatest actors of our time. Your favorite uncle? Yes. A cast-away hobo, a freight ship captain? Absolutely. But does he resemble Robert Langdon in any way? No. Does he look like a ladies man? A chick magnet in every-fucking- where the adventure takes him? No. 

No. 


It's as bad as Tom Cruise's Jack Reachers (what's up with the Toms, though). So, naturally, I just can't look at this series the same way anymore. 

But this book was one of my favorites when I was younger. The young S dreamed of being an art historian, or a curator, so of course, I was drawn to it. The mysteries! The secrets and the adventures to the Louvre! The secret codes and Illuminati gave me all the heebie-jeebies! Oh my, I never thought such a book existed. I'm not gonna say it's a must, but I liked it and stayed with me after all these years..so,

McKlayne Marshall

Een Amerikaanse kunsthistoricus wordt verdacht van moord in het Louvre, wat hem dwingt via cryptische aanwijzingen de ware schuldige te vinden.

De Da Vinci Code

Kim Klein Hesselink

Elena 

** spoiler alert **
           Amazing book amd really good plot twists!!

A Bertrand edita O codigo Da Vinci, um impressionante exito mundial em que dan Dan Brown se revela um génio criativo nao so a nivel de suspense mas tambem da proprio complexidade do enredo. O codigo Da Vinci uma sobra sumultaneamente vertiginosa, inteligente e intricadamente recheada de elementos cientificos e de pormenores inesperados. Das primeiras paginas à imprevisivel e surpreendente conclusao, Dan Brown, autor de outros best-sellers, prova ser um eximio contador de historias. Robert Langdon, conceituado simbologista de Harvard, esta em Paris para fazer ima palestra quando recebe uma noticia inesperada : o velho curador do Louvre foi encontrado morto no museu, e um codigo indecifravel encontrado junto do cadaver . Na tentativa de decifrar o estranho codigo, Langdon e uma dotada criptologista francesca, Sophie Neveu, descobrem, estupefactos, uma série de pistas onscritas nas obras de Leonardo Da Vinci, que o pintor engenhosamente disfarçou. Tudo se complica quando Lnagdon descrobe uma surpreendente ligaçao : o falecido curador estava envolvido com o Priorado de Siao, uma sociedade secreta a que tinham pertencido Sir Isaac Newton, Boticelli, Victor Hugo e Da Vinci, entre outros.

Edition en langue portugaise

Codigo da Vinci

Nelson Zagalo

Um livro polémico, capaz de gerar tanto interesse como ódio. Por um lado os amantes de aventura, do thriller e do mistério por outro os defensores da literatura como arte. Uma discussão que estamos mais habituados a ver no mundo do cinema, como Hollywood e os seus blockbusters versus o cinema alternativo ou europeu.
Deste modo tal como no cinema, precisamos de analisar cada obra no seu ambiente e nos seus objectivos. Como tal "O Código Da Vinci" se devidamente colocado no seu meio, é uma obra com imensas qualidades, nomeadamente Dan Brown demonstra um imenso savoir-faire no domínio da arte do storytelling. Não existe profundidade dramática, nem personagens tridimensionais, mas existe um desfiar de enredo imparável capaz de arrastar consigo hordas de mentes curiosas. A força do desvelamento operado por Brown funciona como um maremoto que leva na frente tudo e todos, mesmo aqueles que se esforçam por encontrar no livro lacunas, erros, ou passes básicos da literatura.

It was fantastic, a perfect mix of thriller and mystery to keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the entire novel.

Adam

The 2nd book in the series, but the first movie to be made, The DaVinci code follows a similar line of religion vs science vs conspiracy theory as the first. In many ways I liked how many different parties there were in the conspiracy for this one, each with their own motives. The slow draw out in what could have been ended faster left me waiting a long time for the next shoe would drop.

Mounir Bashour

H. Kamran

When Robert Langdon is awokened past midnight, he finds himself with a DCPJ agent. The DCPJ agent shows him of a curator who was murdered that night. Jacques Sauniere was murdered that night, and Beau Fache, the DCPJ captain, believes that Langdon is the suspect. Langdon meets Sophie Neveu, who has something very interesting up her sleeve. Who is Sophie Neveu? Who killed Jacques Sauniere? Find out in The Da Vinci Code!

Sydney Tipton

I read this before I visited the Louvre and pissed off my family because I spent thirty minutes looking for the Virgin on the Rocks in the Denon wing

juliette

maybe if your religious you’ll enjoy this book. but i’m not, nor do i really know anything about religion. the reveals were supposed to be crazy revelations, hence why this book is supposedly controversial, but they were all based around jesus, and again, i don’t know much about jesus so it didn’t really click.

Natalia Hernandez

The problem with this book, for me at least, is that all the information in it had already been covered by a documentary I had seen a couple of months before, so it was old for me.

It's an entertaining book to read, very fast read by the way, and to get a glimpse of what the history and art world have been dealing with when it comes to Da Vinci's work. it's a first step, because you reallly should try and read other things about Da Vinci's paintings and creations, about the conspiracies around them...

The book is much better than the movie, though, so read the book. You won't regret it.

Jaymie Lemke

Alost

The book was nice to me. A lot of twists and a thrilling storyline. Enjoyed Brown's style. And I love journy in books. Like parice-london. A friend of mine commented about it that reading it is like peeling an onion- It is fun to see multiple layers, but nothing at last.

Sara Hakkoum

I love how it got me into it from the very first chapters. This is the first time I try reading a thriller or whatever this book is considered, and it seriously felt like I was reading an action movie. It's great that there's crime, suspense, puzzles, mystery, comedy, grief, and love all in the same book. I have to admit, though, I was kind of hoping for the actual Sangreal documents. I mean, after the whole book, I would have liked to see Robert finally physically getting what he was looking for. But the ending wasn't so bad, either.
This has to be the best thought out book I have ever read. It's just so perfect. Everything fits in perfectly, yet it's still very unpredictable. I guess what makes it really special is that it's quite believable. Well, it is to me, at least.
Maybe the hardest thing to grasp throughout the book is that everything happens over the course of one night/day. But that's just what makes it so much awesomer.
I'm considering reading The Lost Symbol or Angels and Demons now.

jillian tenner

This was a good read and I don’t even care, it was wrapped up nicely and to mr. Dan I thank you for that, also dude has to be so smart for this one (and if anyone has news on how many of the book facts are actual facts lmk)

Rebeca Keren Nuñez

Desearía que las películas hubieran salido en orden, eso es lo primero que pienso después de terminar este libro. Continua el estilo del anterior y al ubicarse de forma diferente en lo temporal, hay cosas que toman otro cariz, otro sentido. Interesantes escenarios y mezcla de verdad con ficción. Como siempre digo y dije de la película, no hay que perder de vista que es una novela. Me siento atraída a los intelectuales, pero aun así un poco exagerados los encantos del amigo Robert. Aunque es posible que mi mirada este condicionada a que en las películas, es interpretado por Tom Hanks.

absolutely scrumptious I did not put it down. this sent me down my conspiracy rabbit hole and I will continue to believe everything in it is true.

The Da Vinci Code

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