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| The Da Vinci Code | 
| Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
New (409) Collectible (209) from $0.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  3864 reviews
Sales Rank: 10160
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 454
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0385504209
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385504201
ASIN: 0385504209
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
 A rapturous web of words June 13, 2003
12 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is in the same vein as "The Crying of Lot 49" but without Pynchon's sought-after style. Nevertheless, "The da Vinci Code" delivers a page-turning, mind-churning bonanza. Brown's passion for detail is admirable, but his research is less than superior. Nevertheless, one delves not only into a captivating adventure but also an intellectual spree. The connections between different information a la any mystery novel is especially eye-raising and interesting. Albeit the denoument is somewhat lacking, the rest of the action definitely makes up for it. Hence the 5 stars...
NO DOZE June 13, 2003
This is caffiene times ten. You won't get a nights sleep once you crack this book open because you won't be able to put it down until your done. Also recommended: The Little Guide To Happiness.
The Last Supper June 13, 2003
26 out of 43 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the book immensely. Just a comment on the review from "A reader from Evergreen, CO, United States": Please look carefully at Leonardo's painting of The Last Supper. To the left of Mary Magdalene/John we see Saint Peter with a furious visage and a KNIFE (!) in his right hand. His left hand is making a gesture of "I'll slice his/her throat!" across the throat of that figure of Mary/John. It's there to see -- Leonardo painted it that way. There is more to that painting than meets the eye -- and Dan Brown's book wrote it that way --saying the equivalent of "There's more in heaven and earth than in your history . . ."
 Don't bother with this book - read Umberto Eco instead!! June 13, 2003
24 out of 37 found this review helpful
I agree with the reader from Evergreen, CO - if you're going to write a book like this, do your homework first! I'm not an art history scholar, but I have two degrees in medieval history. The inaccuracy of the author's assertions about almost every historical reference I ran across in this book was appalling! I too tried to have fun with the story, but the bad research was so distracting that I never truly engaged in the book. If you are interested in reading a great book that also deals in similar subjects, go to the master - Umberto Eco - and read Foucault's Pendulum. Eco's breadth of knowledge is vast, and he deftly navigates not only history, but philosophy, theology, semiotics, philology, etc. and weaves them seamlessly into a captivating plot with 3-dimensional characters.
Wow June 13, 2003
Wow, i just finished this book and i thought it was one of the best books i have ever red. Usually i am not one to read these kinds of books but my dad red it and loved it so i thought that i would see what it was all about. I couldn't put it down. It was just so compelling. It was as if it kept whispering to me to keep reading (I'M NOT KIDDIND)some of the things i did find a little far fetched but i thought that that just added to the fun. Over all, i thought i was SOOO good that i would recomend it to almost anyone!!
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