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The Da Vinci Code: A Review

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a masterpiece of literature. I don't know how to describe this book as far as lumping it into a genus. I guess it would be a mystery. This book combines historical fact, cryptography, and action, so it isn't some simple Nancy Drew piece of shit for 8th grade girls.

Spanning about 450 pages, The Da Vinci Code is about Robert Langdon (who appears in a previous Dan Brown novel), a symbologist who specializes in Pagan symbolism. Robert Langdon is summoned to Paris where a man belonging to a secret society known as the Priory of Sion has been murdered. He meets the man's granddaughter, and they team up to crack insanely detailed clues in order to find a very special artifact. I can't reveal more without giving too much of the plot away.

That being said, this book relies heavily on anticipation to speed you through. Keeping track of three or four people and events at a time, The Da Vinci Code ensures even the most ADD-riddled fool can keep up, and it will leave the more intelligent readers feverishly rushing through one part to get to another.

Along with the plot itself, Dan Brown inserts several bits of historical fact regarding conspiracy theories about Da Vinci's artwork, secret societies, the Middle Ages, and Pagan effeminate lore (which bored me.) The novel is fast-paced and very thorough in its explanation, and I can't even specify an audience. It's been and still is on the Best Seller's List, so if you want a good novel to read, pick this one up. It was worth the five-fucking-month wait I had to endure to get it at the library.

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