Sep 18, 2004 12:38 PM
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(Updated Sep 18, 2004 12:38 PM)
Dan Brown has written this controversial exhaustively researched thriller about secret religious societies, ancient cover-ups, cryptograms, anagrams and a savage vengeance. I was given this book by my daughter to read on a train on one of my trips to Pune. I could not stop reading till I reached last page.
Dan Brown's extensive research on secret societies and symbology adds intellectual depth to this page-turning thriller. His surprising revelations on Da Vinci's penchant for hiding codes in his paintings will lead the reader to search out renowned artistic icons as The Mona Lisa, The Madonna of the Rocks and The Last Supper. The Last Supper holds the most astonishing coded secrets of all and, after reading The Da Vinci Code, you will never see this famous painting in quite the same way again.
Dan Brown has, in this book created some controversial Christian religious beliefs. He states that in the year 325 the newly converted King Constantine assembled the Council of Nicea, a gathering of Bishops from around the world in present day Turkey and wrote the first version of the now famous creed proclaiming that the Jesus was the son of God. Constantine then later compiled the New Testament. Brown adopts that until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet, a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless.
He goes further and says that there was a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene that produced a royal bloodline in France. In short Brown?s views about Christianity are that almost everything we know about Christ as given in the Bible is false.
This stunning thriller has provoked much debate.
I am of the view that one should take it as fiction and enjoy reading it. Once you start reading it I am sure you will not put it down till you have finished.
