A few days ago our leader Angela asks a seeming innocuous question about whether we had read any good books lately. I took the bait and she asked me to do a book review. About a year ago I read a couple of Dan Brown book and they were so good I started the third which was titled “The DaVinci Code”. I read about half the book then got caught up in selling a house, buying a house, and moving. I finally got back to the book last week and finished it. The book was so good I was able to pick back up in a matter of minutes. I finally finished. The book is fiction but has a lot of factual historical references. It will make you think about your religious beliefs and where they came from. I think it will make you stronger in the end. The book is full of intrigue and mystery. Being a lover of cryptology I found myself trying to solve the codes and actually solved/guessed a couple before they were revealed in the book. I recommend this book for my golo friends. You can borrow my copy. The book has been made into a movie but I haven’t seen the movie. Below is a brief synopsis of the book and a URL where you can read more review information:While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever. In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown's bestselling Angels & Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightening-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion. http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/reviews.html
