Book: The DaVinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Read: June 2007
Notes: Practicaly best selling book of all time, save the Bible, of course
So, I finally read the DiVinci Code. Great book. Great read. Everyone should read it - but . . . Angels and Demons was better. I think the DiVinci code was meant to be more cerebreal, but mainly the story was just not as satisfying.
There are some increadibly intriguing facts in the book - if for nothing else, read it to learn things like why Friday the 13th is considered such a haunted day and some Where's Waldo kind of stuff about DaVinci's The Last Supper.
I think what was more exciting about Angels and Demons, though, was that it really got into Robert Langdon's back-story and provided for a lot more physical action - much more Indiana Jones - and who doesn't love Harrison Ford! Oops, I mean Indiana Jones (sorry, Freudian slip). In the DiVinci Code, Langdon does most of his traveling by car or plane, wheras in Angels he got to run around the city and experience many of Rome's historical sites while divulging interesting tid-bits about their history to the reader.
The story in the DiVinci Code is similar to that in Angels in that Langdon stumbles upon a mystery larger than he originally anticipates and gets to jet around with a lovely lady on his arm. It all starts when Langdon is told that his future dinner date, the curator of the Louvre, has been found murdered. Langdon is called upon as a possible suspect and finds himself dashing around Europe and the UK with the curator's granddaughter, following clues that the dead man and his secret society have left behind for them.
Where does DaVinici come in? Why, he was once a member of this illustrious seceret society - put together to guard the Holy Grail, of all things!
As a Catholic, I really enjoyed the conspiracy theories surrounding Jesus' death and possible marriage, etc. I, personally, don't have a very strong opinion on it either way, but I think that anything that makes you think about your faith more in depth and look into the life of the most famous being in our history can't really be all that bad of a thing - but that's just my personal opinion.
What are your thoughts on the book? What were your favorite factoids of Dan Brown's? It's so hard to remember them all! Please share!
2 comments:
I would have to agree with you that Angels and Demons was better. It's been a few years since reading these books, but i couldn't put them down until I was finished.
Thanks for writing this.
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