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Summary: This book is horrible
Review: This book is blashpeme. The author writes lies about Jesus Christ the Son of God and Savior of all mankind. I would not recommend this book. Instead read the Bible to know the truth about Jesus.
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Summary: Not great but not bad either
Review: This book is by no means a classic but it will keep you entertained while you're reading it. There are some interesting ideas and surprising moments in the text but nothing extraordinary. This book will remind you of the new Star Wars series where the action and on-screen visuals are spectacular but the overall product is a little hollow.
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Summary: In search of the Holy Grail
Review: This book is certainly filled with all the twists and turns, plots and subplots, and strange alliances which make it a page-turning best-seller. The murder of a museum curator occurs in the Louvre during the first chapter. As the man is dying, he leaves a series of convoluted clues which his granddaughter Sophie and an historical symbologist named Robert Landgon, spend the rest of the book trying to follow. What is their objective? The Holy Grail, which is given a different spin in this book. While there are historical rumors about the nature of the Grail, not as the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper but as something quite different, this book's fictional plot is based on shaky conjecture. It is well-written and the plots weaves deliciously around so that yesterday's allies are today's enemies. Despite its strengths, this book is on shaky ground and it was hard for me, as a Christian, to accept the basic premise.
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Summary: Real Junk
Review: This book is complete and utter nonsense. None of its "history" is correct. There is no profession of "symbologist," for example. And that's not all the nonsense. The plot is transparent and predictable at every turn.
All this could be fun, but it is written with pompous seriousness. In addition to inventing weird history (powerful secret societies, details of the search for the Holy Grail), the book misinforms about or hypes up essentially every real subject it touches.
My aching back! On the best seller list yet!
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Summary: One of the 4 best books ever read.
Review: This book is definitaly on my "Top books" list. Probably as #2, only topped out by another of Dan Brown's novels. I have read this book multiple times, and still catch things that I havent previously noticed. I would not, however, suggest this book to anyone under the age of 15 (...), belong to Opus Dei, have a strong belief in christian faith, or someone eaily disturbed with the mention of Christian churches hiding many facts. If you do not fit in the above categories, and are still reading, very good! Buy this book! Yes, there are some exagerated parts, but it has to be this way. It's fiction. I highly recommend this book, and if nothing else - it will hopefully open your narrow little mind to accept something different. (No offense intended)
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This book is definitely a page turner, fast-paced and suspenseful. Be prepared to think of nothing else except reading this book during every spare moment you have once you start it. The plot is filled with interesting characters, puzzles and historical information. You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Great read but an over-stated thesis
Review: This book is definitely absorbing. I read it in two days. Not only is it a quick read, but it peaked my interest in biblical history such that I've spent the days since finishing the book looking into various areas of history that Brown discusses. Although this is suffcient to earn five stars from me, it is hard to accept the more general claims that Brown makes in this book. He provides many interesting vignettes regarding how christianity absorbed various pagan symbols and rituals, but his over-arching claim that Christianity ushered in the modern era of misogyny is simply nonsense. Just a basic familiarity with Homer reveals that women were treated as chattel thousands of years before Christ or Nicea. Just about every major ancient ruler was male, and their myths invariably centered on males. While Christianity/Judaism may have been the first religion without an explicitly female goddess figure, that fact hardly distinguishes a misogynist world from a world of equality. Anyone accepting Mr. Brown's thesis must explain why the modern concept of female equality arose solely in nations with christian histories. Non-christian cultures have a horrible record regarding their female citizens. That certain African cultures retain female goddess symbols must be small consolation to the actual flesh and blood women who live there as distinctly second-class citizens.
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Summary: Superb Page Turner
Review: This book is everything a good novel should be. It's smart, beautifully written, paced with amazing precision, filled with action and bursting at the seams with religious insight and theories that have rarely seen such public attention. Although the latter is heavily borrowed from other source, Brown presents them in a story that compells you to pay attention through a page turning plot and full, dynamic characters. Brown's novel hits the ground running from the first page and draws you into the mystery of an ancient society and the secrets they were charged to keep. Throughout the story the main characters are struggling against time to decode the multiple messages left for them by the recently murdered curator of the Louvre. One of the great aspect of the novel is the reader own involvement to solve the riddles and codes. You are constantly toying with your own ideas of what the solutions could be. Most of the obstacles in The Da Vinci Code have solutions far beyond traditional logic and crytological methods. In fact, the relation of the answers to the character is one of the things that endears readers to the main characters of this novel. A few of the riddles are actually so easy that they discredit the characters (The bank code? Come on) but this is certainly very rare. Brown gracefully treads a fine line between fact and conjecture by constantly enforcing the fact that while the arguments in the book are extremely persuasive, they are arguments made by characters who firmly believe in what they are searching for. Truly and amazing book.
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Summary: Umberto Eco Meets Indiana Jones-Terrific
Review: This book is everything its fans say it is. The story is fast moving, intelligent, fascinating, and the mystery is wonderful. Absolutely perfect.
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Summary: Religious zealots & close minded people stay away!!!
Review: This book is FICTION people!!!! Get a freaking grip. Most low raters are clearly motivated by their fervor for Christianity while other low raters are less conspicuous about their convictions in their "reviews". Again, amazon has to do something about their "review" section because I guarantee that half of the reviews come from people that have never read one page of the book. Maybe amazon should have a quiz section to verify true readers. Why are so many Christians afraid of the damage that a FICTIONAL book can do to the religion? I have firmly held beliefs that are still intact after reading the book. It didn't make me question Christianity and what it stands for. Ever heard of suspension of disbelief? I hope those that read this are not actually looking for a "review" to buy this book because they would be better served flipping a coin. Everyone who rates here on amazon seems to be motivated by something and totally uninterested in giving an honest review. Oh, and by the way, if you do care, this book is wonderful like all the major news media has stated! The book has been on the bestseller list this long for a reason.
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