![]() Ah yes, we need a special and beautiful woman and right on the heels of the murder Sophie Neveu, expert in code breaking, turns up just as the standard thriller’s police investigative star is interrogating Langdon, at the murder site no less, in the basement of the Louvre. Harvard scholar, Robert Langdon, in Paris to give a lecture on symbolism in religion, becomes a lead suspect in Sauniere’s death. Jacques Sauniere, a curator at the Louvre in Paris is murdered. The basic plot device is clever and rather straight forward for the genre of the thriller. Holy Grail, elevated to a world-historic conspiracy theory. However, Dan Brown has bigger fish to fry and created what I found to be both a gripping yet aggravating thriller and a clever, almost ironic exploration of the myth of the ![]() ![]() Nikos Kazanzakis’s THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST and the incredible THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST by Jose Saramago. Two very fine novels I have read already tackle that theme and do it well. I must say: if that had been the theme I would have been very surprised at the level of discussion the book created. The dominant theme I heard discussed was a sexual relationship or even marriage / love affair between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. With all the buzz, radio talk shows, many reviews, soon a movie to be made, I feel like one of the last American readers to get to this book.īut the contrast between “the buzz” and the book itself has fascinated me. THE DA VINCI CODE THE DA VINCI CODE Dan Brown ![]()
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