![]() ![]() ![]() Couple all that with regular implicit criticism of organized religion, especially traditional European Catholicism, along with explicit feminist and even goddess-worship ideology, and one understands why many post-Christian readers will approve of the message and virtually all readers will find the plot riveting. It contains all the elements of a good murder mystery, enough vivid portrayals that one can imagine the events depicted on location, especially if one is familiar with France and Britain, and bite-sized chapters that regularly end with a “cliffhanger” begging one to read more. It is well-written, fast-paced, with surprising turns of plot and intrigue regularly shocking readers, especially when they start to think they have things figured out. It didn’t take me very long in reading this book to understand why it was the #1 bestseller on the New York Times list of fiction for a large portion of 2003. documents.in this novel are accurate” is, however, highly inaccurate! It is true that the author has worked hard to describe accurately the contemporary European locations, including city layouts, buildings, and artwork, in which the plot is set, though errors do still appear there too. The organization Opus Dei is caricatured the Prior of Sion existed only from 1956-84 as a right-wing French political hoax. That is important to remember, especially after the statements on page 1, which move the work slightly into the arena of historical fiction, but only slightly. The most important word in this entire book is the noun in the subtitle this is a “novel”-a work of fiction. Craig Blomberg.īrown, Dan The Da Vinci Code: A Novel. A review of Dan Brown's, "The Da Vinci Code: A Novel," by Dr. ![]()
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