Here, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is urgently called to help in the investigation of a murder which has some symbological evidence, and from there, we get thrown into an incredible story that expands into a manipulated battle between the Opus Dei and the Priory of Sion, tells about Jesus’ descendants and disputes religious facts/ historical moments we thought we knew as fact. Dan Brown’s multi-layered fiction starts by deconstructing the traditional interpretation of Leonardo’s artistic works, develops by self-reconstructing the symbolic system of the artistic and religious world, and finishes with an indefinite thought-provoking ending. What then grips the reader are the turns, curves, near-capture escapes, and revelations within the story. ‘ The Da Vinci Code,’ like most thrillers, begins with a murder but does not leave you guessing who the murderer is and almost immediately reveals the murderer and the motive behind it.

It also makes you reconsider everything you’ve been taught about the historical facts it twists and makes you wonder if its theories have some logical truth. The plot of this story imprisons your attention from the very prologue and hangs you over a cliff at the end of every chapter. It is a deeply meaningful work with a thrilling story conveyed through a simple and realistic style. Whatever the case, its status as one of the greatest novels ever written has remained unchallenged for years. Without doubt, the silliest, most inaccurate, ill-informed, stereotype-driven, cloth-eared, cardboard-cutout-populated piece of pulp fiction that I have read

On the other hand, Peter Millar, in his review for the London Times, said that the novel is: Brown takes the format he has been developing through three earlier novels and fine-tunes it to blockbuster proportion In this gleefully erudite suspense novel, Mr. On the one hand, we had reviews like that of Janet Maslin, who in her review of the book for the New York Times said: ‘The Da Vinci Code’ generated a lot of reactions. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and as of 2005, the novel had been listed in the New York Times bestseller list for ninety-six weeks. Its three predecessors were not very successful, but it was ‘The Da Vinci Code’ that brought Brown to the literary spotlight and even cast light on its predecessors who also went on to join the bestseller list. ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is the fourth novel written by Dan Brown and the second novel in the Robert Langdon series.

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