The Da Vinci Code

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Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code (2003, Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, Bantam Books)

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Published April 9, 2003 by Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, Bantam Books.

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3 stars (174 reviews)

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used …

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reviewed Sakrileg by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon, #2)

Brown verkauft jede Erkenntnis, die ihm bei seinen Recherchen untergekommen ist, als Sensation

1 star

Das Problem ist nicht einmal der Schreibstil, obwohl kein Zweifel daran bestehen kann, dass er grotesk schlecht ist. Tatsächlich hat Übersetzer Piet van Poll sein Möglichstes getan, das zumindest teilweise abzumildern, indem er Sätze umgestellt und Klischees umformuliert hat. Das Ergebnis ist nach wie vor nicht unbedingt hohe Literatur.

Das eigentliche Problem ist aber, dass Dan Brown jede Erkenntnis, die ihm bei seinen Recherchen untergekommen ist, als Sensation verkauft. Um das zu bewerkstelligen, macht er sämtliche Figuren zu Idioten. Ob der weltberühmte Symbolismusexperte Langdon den Vitruvianischen Mensch erst am Kreis erkennt, ein Hörsaal voller Mathematikstudenten noch nie etwas von der Fibonacci-Reihe gehört hat oder das Dechiffrierungsgenie Sophie bei jeder Erwähnung einer Verschlüsselung vollkommen verwirrt ist – es ist klar, dass Brown von seinem neu erlangten Wissen überfordert ist und es auf furchtbar unbeholfene Weise auf seine Figuren aufteilt.

Besonders deutlich zeigt sich das an Browns unerklärlicher Faszination für Anagramme. Diese …

reviewed The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon, #2)

'The Da Vinci Code',

2 stars

Is the human race getting dumber? Or is it just the literary establishment? *

I picked up a mint-condition hardcover copy of The Da Vinci Code at my local public library's permanent book sale for $1. At that price, I couldn't lose; I was going on a six-hour drive with my wife, and I needed something to read. My one concern was that the book might be too complex to be a relaxing car read. After all, according to the blurbs on the cover the New York Times said it was a work of "genius"!

It's not. It's a fairly fast-paced and somewhat over-talky action/mystery/conspiracy theory novel; a potboiler, really. I was surprised by several aspects of the novel.

The writing actually betrayed a slightly juvenile touch. No offense to Mr. Brown; he's a competent writer. But standards seem to have gone down in the last twenty years or so. …

Review of 'Da Vinci code' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Après l’avoir lu j’avoue ne pas comprendre le scandale provoqué par ce livre.
Rien n’est à prendre au premier degrés, surtout pas le côté “historique”, truffé d’erreurs monumentales. Le suspens est haletant, l’ensemble coule tout seul, si on ne prend pas le temps d’analyser les invraisemblances.
Lecture facile et rapide, qui n’a pas d’autre prétention que celle de distraire.
On peut par la suite avoir envie d’en savoir plus sur les thèmes évoqués par l’auteur, mais ne comptez pas sur le livre pour vous faire des révélations sérieuses.

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