I've started a bookring. PM me if you would like to join.

The book is on its way to Bunnybee - bookring.

Received the book in the mail today! Will get started on it right away. :-) Thanks shpriz1 for the bookring!

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July 15- finished book- and it was great! At the risk of giving out spoilers for those who are on the list to read this still... I won't say too much- but let's just say it starts off fairly quickly and keeps going. I did read some reviews (from other places) where someone said they couldn't finish it because it went against their beliefs... well, I now that I've read it, I can understand why someone might make such a comment- but hey- it's FICTION and I loved reading it for all the twists, despite what 'conflicts' there were in what I believed. Excellent read. And I loved trying to figure out what I could on the cryptic puzzles before the characters did- only did it one time, the rest of the time, I was stumped. Brain candy! I hope everyone else enjoys it too.

I will get it in the mail to GraceTX tomorrow (or today, I suppose- it's late). Thanks again, shpriz1 for offering your book up for sharing!

Bunnybee

Shipped today to GraceTX via USPS media mail (they said it will probably take only 2-3 days anyway since it's so close!) :-)

Enjoy!

The book arrived earlier this week to my apartment complex (it didn't fit in my mailbox so it was delivered to the front offce). They close at 6:00 p.m. so it took me a couple of tries to get there before closing but I finally got it! Yay! I've just finished another book so I'll get started on this right away.

This was a great book. I started reading it on the plane to England and within a page or two was completely hooked. Over the next few days, whenever I had time to read, I was reading this book.

I need to get the address to the next person on the list (I did it before but forgot to bring it with me) and then I'll post it.

Sent on to kelwood. It's travelling from England by airmail so it should take around a week to arrive.

Woohoo! Just arrived today from GraceTX as part of shpriz1's bookring. I'm looking forward to reading this. I just finished my most recent read last night, so I'll be able to start right away. Thanks for including me!

I thought this was an excellent story - very intriguing and hard to put down. I can see why some would be put off by the topic of an alternate view of Christianity, but that's why this is fiction. It may have sprung from a variety of sources and theories that may or may not be true, but the heart of the story is made up. However, the author draws the reader (or at least myself) in so deeply it does indeed seem real. I was right about one character, wrong about another. And like Bunnybee I only figured out one of the cryptic clues. I would definitely recommend this to everyone. Two thumbs up!

Will send off to Ixion this week.

Sent off today to Ixion via media mail. Enjoy!

I got this in the mail Tuesday night and I just haven't had a chance to log it in. I'm so excited to get it -- all of my co-workers have been talking about this book since Christmas. I know a copy was being passed around the office but somehow I managed to miss reading it. I can't wait to see if all the hype is true.
**9/23** Sorry! Life has gotten a bit in the way, I am actively reading this book but it is taking me longer than I thought it would. I am enjoying it though. I'm still alive. =)

Definitely worth all the hype. I had avoided this book because my entire office had talked about it non-stop for 4 months and I couldn't take it. I decided to wait a while before reading it for myself. Being raised in New England where Catholicism has such a hold on both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the recent clergy sex-abuse trials and the questionable spending of the church has left a bad taste in the mouth of many New England Catholics. I've never been a big supporter of the Church myself, so I wasn't offended by anything in this book! Mailed to Tennessee on October 6th.

i have one more bookring i need to finish up and then i'll get this one started. looking forward to reading it...cant wait to see what all the hype is about!

10/23...began reading!

11/12-sorry i'm being slow! about halfway through it.

first off,i'm so sorry i took so long with this. it took me longer than i expected.

i have mixed feelings about this book. overall,it was good. it was interesting but it didnt hold my attention well. i'm not much for the mystery/thriller genre. :) thanks for sharing though.

i have the next person's address and i'm sending it first thing monday.

Released on Monday, December 06, 2004 at about 12:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring Controlled Releases.

RELEASE NOTES:

sending off to jane today!

I received this last week -- so sorry not to have journaled sooner! I have a few books ahead of this, but I think this should go quickly once I begin.

The mystery was compelling, and I think Brown handled the ending well. Throughout the book, I found myself thinking that there would be no good end: A. Our protagonists are killed before they find the Grail – bummer; B. Our protagonists find the Grail, but in trying to make the fantastical real, Brown can’t describe this amazing thing in any way approaching the tantalizing buildup – big disappointment to the reader whose own vision of this goal is nothing like Brown’s description; or C. Our protagonists find the Grail but coyly decide not to describe it – big irritation for the reader. The ending he used was just right – knowing where the Grail was but having it inaccessible and indescribable.

Now here are the things that really irritated me:
Overuse of italics – I do know how to read and to comprehend what I’m reading – thank you very much – and I don’t need the author scattering italicized words about to make sure I catch his meaning and emphases. (I don’t object to italicizing words in languages other than English; that is acceptable practice.)
Overuse of the “cliffhanger” ending of a chapter, and too many breathless escapes by the skin of their teeth – it got to be quite tedious.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOWING---to miss, skip down past ********************

Brilliant, educated protagonists who are conveniently brain-dead at key points in the plot in order to stretch out another crisis or to prolong tension. In the Swiss bank, they thought they did not have the account number. Um … how about the Fibonacci sequence? I got that right away – it took them a dozen pages or so. Faced with the strange text in the lid of the rose-wood box, they debated “Semitic?”, “Rashi script?”, “STA”M with crowns?” Um … Da Vinci? his “coded” notebooks? I kept muttering – “Hold it up to a mirror!!” – Duh.

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So all-in-all, an intriguing mystery housed in a mediocre text. If someone who hadn’t read it yet asked me whether they should, I’d say “Don’t bother” and give them a 5 minute plot summary.

But I do appreciate the chance to read it as part of a ring. Thanks, shpriz1, for sharing this book!

This book is now packed up and ready to be shipped off to Germany. I’ll get to the PO Thursday morning and make a brief journal update once the book is actually in the mail.

I shipped this off to Germany on Wednesday, in transit 4-6 weeks by surface mail.

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14 February - written in response to Ben-Nevis, below.

Cool! This is the second time that I've sent a book via surface mail only to hear that it has "winged" its way across the Atlantic in less than a week!

(I wrote a new, separate journal entry for this but then realized that there is no neutral choice for 'status', and my TBR would have, presumably, overwritten Ben-Nevis's. Perhaps one of these days, I'll send this to Reno as an enhancment request.)

Recieved today. There are two more bookrays I have to read first.

----14.Mar.2005----
Finished!
That really was a gripping read, I hardly could stop reading for a whole weekend.
The story is really well constructed and right from the beginning I was wondering what would happen next. I really liked the enigmas (I have to admit that I did not guess a single one). What I liked as well is the historical information about Da Vinci and the others.
What I did not like si that the story is a little narrow, it is only about the "Da Vinci Code" (I do not want to give away too much), the people and country side involved are not really importened and not desribed in detail (I like descriptions...)

I am really glad I have read this book, it is a good read.
Thank you for sharing!

---- 12.04.2005 ----
Had some problems to find the next one on the list, but now the book is on its way.

Just recieved.

I really enjoyed this second installment on the life and puzzles of Robert Langford :D. I rarely enjoy mystery, but the person who recommended these to me was very right. Dan Brown's books are right up my alley.

Sorry for the delay. Mailed today!

Wow....My little book is safely home now. THANK YOU every single one of you for keeping this ring alive and moving. :)

Gave the book to my co-worker.