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Country: United KingdomFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Corgi BooksISBN: 9780552149518
Publication date: March 2004
Edition: New edition
Pages: 560
Readership: General
The Da Vinci Code
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Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond. Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
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 The Da Vinci 'code' is real... scholastic proof !Reviewed by Mr Greg Melson from South Africa on 18 October 2004
870 of 1669 people found the following review helpful:
In my opinion Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code has already proven its popularity well beyond the need for any readers’ reviews. But what seems to make this novel so unique is that the ‘code’ it sets out to unravel is based on real facts... history that has been hidden, as it were!
But where does the book draw the line between fact and fiction? Arguably thousands have already asked this question and since scholastic comments have been few and far between, I made it my personal mission to find the answers.
I believe the facts as well as the long awaited code solution has recently been published by a South African in a book titled, ‘The Hidden Records’. The explanation offered by the author, Wayne Herschel, far supersedes the recent counter claims by a whole array of authors who profess to have unravelled the code. This book delivers the actual secret code with indisputable proof, which can be scholastically evaluated on thehiddenrecords.com.
The fact is that Leonardo Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks has his Vitruvian man encoded into it... a finding that offers a whole new interpretation of the meaning of his 'geometric man'! This earth-shattering discovery seems to be only the tip of the iceberg, because it turns out that the hidden geometry is also encoded into most of our ancient civilisation's mysterious monuments,and it can be clearly decoded.
A decipherable message strongly suggesting a whole new theory on humankind's place of origin!
So... if you were not too sure about ‘The Da Vinci Code’... take the leap and read it... then check out the historical proof. I guarantee it will change the way you look at life, as we know it.
Greg Melson
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Eye openerReviewed by William from Pretoria, South Africa on 20 April 2004
792 of 1582 people found the following review helpful:
The story is well written and fast passed a brilliant read as far as fiction goes ... but then you realise tha this is an eye opener! And really BRILLIANT!!!
10/10!!!
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 More like a mutating DNA codeReviewed by Mr Zahir Jacobs from Cape Town on 02 January 2005
243 of 497 people found the following review helpful:
Scholastic books are supposed to be hard to understand, let alone boring. So when everyone starts talking about how a 'scholastic' book is easy to read and a 'scholastic' book starts selling millions of copies and a 'scholastic' book "makes you think eh", you just know something is fishy.
The Da Vinci Code (DVC). A book that ends where it begins. A manuscript that sets off a chain of events. A secret society protecting an important secret that if revealed would challenge the Christian Church. A murderous monk. Codes and riddles. And the search for a Holy Grail. A very big conspiracy theory. Lots of (somewhat flaky) historical fact and conjecture. And a Da Vinci do@#$ent that points to Jesus Christ having descendents.
Nope, I'm not writing about the Da Vinci Code, but rather several pre-DVC published works that all deal with the same subject matter as this book.
The only thing good about this book is that Dan Brown writes as *accessible* as Umberto Eco ought to be. ie. Nothing high-brow here so the pseudo-intellectual will be slightly disappointed. He also seems to have been inspired by Paul Coelho's The Alchemist, a fable about a search for a treasure that ends off where it begins. And Dan Brown certainly has a knack of knocking off Lewis Purdue's Daughter of God (2001) and The Da Vinci Legacy (1983), both of which I've read and have probably been the cause of my disappointing review.
If this book "really makes you think", then perhaps you should look up the history of Pierre Plantard (The Priory of Zion-guy) and see what he had to say, under oath, to a French judge about his elaborate hoax.
I recommend Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and Purdue's original masterpieces instead of this title which fills a much needed gap in the already oversold conspiracy theory category.
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Fact or Not ?Reviewed by Merlene Spies from Gauteng on 05 October 2006
141 of 310 people found the following review helpful:
This remains one of mystery. We will all have our own opions and will debate about it. Certainly he did some research and we should not take this all as pure fact as I think he used some facts and decided to write a thriller based on this. We will never really know what he wanted to achieve, confuse people or just tell a story, however I personally felt the book was....great, but I seriously thought Angels and Demons was a far better story. I would recommend that this be read first before the Da Vinci code as it seems like a sequel to a mystery. I could not put Angels and Demons down and could not wait for the next chapter, as the previous chapter left you hanging with anticipation... Angels.. far more exciting and wonderfully written.
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Is it fiction, is it truth or is it just confused?Reviewed by Jaco Campher on 23 March 2005
411 of 835 people found the following review helpful:
Dan really lost himself with this one. Yet another conspiracy theory promising to wreck Christianity. Nothing new there. Also you have to read through the whole thing just to find out... Nothing actually. As for research, I don't think Mr Brown knows about research. For instance, the date of the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls is not even accurate. Now this is a rather elementary fact and should not present much of a challenge, but apparently it has seeing as Dan got it wrong. This from a book that promises that it is based on FACT. There are several of these faux pas in this book based on facts for example:
The ancient Olympics were held in honour of Aphrodite, it was in honour of Zeus in fact.
The pyramid of the Louvre has 666 panes of glass; actually there are 673 panes.
The claim that 5 million women were burned as witches by the church. The actual numbers were closer to between 30 and 60 thousand, not all women, not all burned either. This according to people who actually did do research. These are just a few and one may argue that these aren't so important. That may be true, but then Dan should not present this book as being based on facts when even very elementary facts he could not get right. How can one trust the rest of it? So, if you want to be bored or can't sleep get it. If you really are interested in facts find something else, Dan is not strong on facts or scholarship. There is not enough space to properly list all the facts that Dan has ruined but they are many. There are several critique's available on line. Read them first.
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