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Summary: Page turner badly spoiled by lack of credibility, ideology
Review: In the last third of this book, I started skipping paragraphs, then whole pages. Some of the storytelling devices are so overused that they become boring. But I have to admit that this book is indeed a page turner, and that it is difficult giving it up without knowing what happens next.
I just hope that not too many people take it seriously. Most of the facts that you would have expected to be researched are so flawed that the lack of credibility becomes a problem. I love Indiana Jones movies for example, and these movies obviously have all their science (archeology and history) wrong. But for some reason the liberties taken with the facts there do not bother me as much as they do in this book.
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Summary: Mesmorizing in its detail!
Review: In the same vein as Clive Cussler, Dan Brown has found a way to make history and suspense intertwine. Yet where Cussler often uses legend, Brown uses mostly facts. This book is not only a good old fashioned pager turner that you won't be able to put down, but it is worth buying just for the information on PHI, known since the Enlightenment at "The Divine Proportion". Read this book.
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Summary: Non Fiction DaVinci Code
Review: In the wake of the DaVinchi Code, the novel which continues to persistently sell like hotcakes, there's another take on the subject of the holy grail-- a non-fiction book called Miracle of the Ark that serendipitously uses quite a few of the same novel tactics to connect the dots but instead applies them to actual events, which produces different results and reaches alternative conclusions-- that deserves a look for balance sake. In like manner as the bestseller that is all the rage, this other treatment artistically arrives at answers which make logical sense and that are highly suggestive of the present abode of the real relict by reaching further back in time than Leonardo DaVinci to sources of the Middle Ages to show that the theory put forth is symbolically solid. Similar to the cipher found by the body that sets the stage in the murder mystery, in this case the lynchpin of the argument granting insight to pinpoint the possible location of the grail like a bull's-eye target revolves around a key etching drawn on the face of an oil lamp that was found hidden within the capital punishment grounds where blood was initially drawn for that sacred vessel that has vanished without a trace. What the oil lamp likely meant would not be solved until now, millennia after the clue was planted at the execution site during the Babylonian siege when, not so coincidentally, the Ark of the Covenant also simultaneously went missing into tunnels in the turmoil and looting in an interesting historical parallel to today. All was quiet on the grail front up to the time it became topical. Then, as if in poetic justice, in the inverse of the earlier invasion, when instead of waxing the tide has turned and regime of Iraq recedes after the war, a lead surfaces in a medieval manuscript's illumination that unlocks the counterintuitive mystery of the symbol on the lamp, which had previously been dismissed as irrelevant, much like the Biblical artifacts coming to the fore of late such as the ossuary burial box that remained in deep storage of antiquities dealers until the significance of the inscription James was realized. In the final analysis, when the riddle inside an enigma wrapped in swaddling clothes was figured out, in a surprise, unexpected ending, the grail and the Ark are synonymous, one and the same receptacle, teaching an old dogma new tricks.
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Summary: Indiana Jones meets Tim LaHaye
Review: In this book all the players are "bad guys." The troubling thing is that it makes you pull for one set of these bad guys as though they were "good guys." Otherwise fun to read and full of interesting historical data. HOWEVER....the book IS fiction. Don't let it mess with your faith.
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Summary: Incredibly fun read!
Review: Incredibly fun read from Dan Brown that once again brings back the main character Robert Langdon from his previous work, "Angels & Demons". This time Langdon must figure out the mysteries of a secret society before some of mankind's greatest truths are lost forever. The story begins with the assassination of the curator of the Louvre, one of the most famous museums in the world. Langdon is called in by the police and the daughter of the murdered man to assemble and decode the clues left by the curator within some of Leonardo Da Vinci's greatest works. From there the reader is taken on a non-stop thrill ride as the men behind the assassination come after Langdon while he also attempts to flee the authorities that have named him as the primary suspect in the murder case. It is not difficult to see why this book has remained on Amazon's Top 10 best-seller list for months and months now. It is a fun read that makes you really think while you are being entertained. I can't wait for the next installment in the Langdon series. Enjoy this great read for yourself!
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Summary: Pass on The Da Vinci Code
Review: Initially I was drawn to this book because it been a best seller for so long. As a born-again christian, I was deeply hurt by this book. It just breaks my heart to see blashamy go so main stream.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Instead of writing a long explaination of the plot (you can read all of the others), I will simply encourage you to give this book at try. I am an avid reader, and honestly, difficult to impress. However, this book was fantastic! I couldn't put in down and read it in one sitting! Much better than a typical thriller and very thought provoking!
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Summary: Interesting and enjoyable
Review: Interesting and enjoyable if you have a taste for historical mystery and drama. Read it straight thru until 3am which is a good sign - I didn't want to put it down. Reminded me of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (which was way too long). And to R. Posey from New York, WTF? Anyone who writes a 5 paragraph review about a book they did not like - including this nonsense: "How did it cross the equinoctial border that divides summer reading from autumnal brooding?" probably shouldn't be ripping on the writing skills of a best selling author.
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Summary: Da Vinci Con
Review: Interesting background viz. the sacred feminine. Horrible mystery writing. Spend your time and money reading Neal Stephenson.
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Summary: COMMON SENSE PLEASE!
Review: Interesting fiction but this does not pass the common sense test as any sort of real research. Why? ........... Well let's connect the dots: Historical Fact: The most skeptical atheist theologian would accept that at least 4 of the apostles died for their faith. St. Peter being crucified on Vatican Hill will be the example here. Psychiatric Fact: There has never been a case of multiple people hallucinating the same thing at the same time even attempts with modern drugs. ERGO: Christ's appearances were not hallucinations. SO: Jesus was resucitated, pretended to have risen from the dead and and his followers went around starting a cool new but bogus religion while Jesus went to live in the south of France with a babe. AND THEN: Nero thought the Christians were a pain in his rear so he rounded up Peter, their leader and had him crucified (no fun) in the Circus. BUT: Peter could have told where Jesus was and surely bargained his way back to a quiet fishing job on tne Sea of Galilee. But he decided to die a tortuous death to protect a guy with a babe on the French Riviera. RIGHT! Antone who takes this book seriously ............. ?
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