BO O K R E V I E W

THE DA VINCI CODE(A NOVEL) -Dan Brown

--T.B.Kedhaar Kumar—--IX D--

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dan Brown has his own style. He has so far written only 5 books-all of them masterpieces. He describes each and every thing in detail. His style of writing is evident of the amount of effort and research work he puts for each novel. He describes each and every moment of the storyline, which makes his books gripping.

He tells the same things more than one time but from the views of different characters- both good and bad.This feature sometimes makes us see even the bad ones as the good ones as it give the specific and convincing reason why a certain character does certain things.Such features of his writing make him one of the best.

MAIN CHARACTERS

• Robert Langdon

• Sophie Neveu

• Sir Leigh Teabing

• Jacques Saunière

• Bishop Aringarosa

• Bezu Fache

• Silas

• Rémy Legaludec

SUMMARY

• The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown.

• It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene.

• The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood.

• The novel is part of the exploration of alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descendants from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation and books by Margaret Starbird.

• As the story progresses, Langdon finds himself on the run from the French police, along with Sophie Neveu, accused of murdering four public faces, and stealing a package from the Swiss bank.

• The package which he has now, is actually a map- a kryptos, designed by Jacques Saunière, that leads to the hiding place of the holy grail.

• The rest of the story lies on how Robert and Sophie evade the French Police, and break the Da Vinci Code.

MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS

• My all time favourite character is the one and only Robert Langdon.• Anybody would just love him because he is the

specialist in symbols, he’s a professor in Harvard University.• He kind of deciphers any kind of cryptex or

something like that.

MY OPINIONS

• I just loved this book. It may even rewrite the Christian history.• It tells the story from different angles, shows the

views and opinions of various characters to make us understand them better.• This feature of this book explains us the reason

for specific actions of the characters.• I don’t think this book can be any better. As many

say, it is a blockbuster perfection.

- -T. B . K E D H A A R KU M A R- -

THANK YOU --IX D----22--