(small format paperback)

Amazon Editorial Review:
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. While working to solve 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 -- 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.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.

THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…utterly unpredictable right up to its conclusion.


I say:
I picked up 2 copies of this along the way, so I'm registering this one here. More hype than it deserves, it was not the best book I've ever read but I really enjoyed it. Certainly a page turner. I liked the historical and classical references and the European locations. I thought it was clever - I like a puzzle. The movie ending smoothed out a few things from the book.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

There might not be anyone left who hasn't read The Da Vinci Code but then again maybe a new BookCrosser or a backpacker at the YHA might be interested?
So I'll take this to the February get-together for Canberra BXers at King O'Malley's in Civic.
If it's not picked up I'll leave it on the Exchange shelf of the Civic YHA (3rd floor).

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Cycled to the Canberra BookCrossing meet at King O'Malley's Pub in Civic, ACT, released several books and caught this one.
(And no, not everyone has read this yet.)

I am not halfway through this book yet. Some thoughts for the unfinished read.
The story is fine, but I don’t see it’s good enough to warrant the hype it got. Much of it reads as if it were written by a savant, or someone with Aspergers Syndrome. Facts, figures; the sort of thing they would collect. The writing is better than I expected though. Sure it’s not poetic, the descriptions are work like, but it gets the story told, maybe better than some of those poetic, ‘lovely’ writings. When they got to the bank and needed a password it was obvious it was what the grandfather left on the floor of the Louvre, but they couldn’t think of the obvious for several pages. I’m not halfway through yet, but I’m guessing the model knight on the grandfather’s desk will be hiding something. Also, I’m guessing the main policeman will be working for the enemy (he has that jewel encrusted cross around his neck) and the other policeman might be more of a friend. Could the Grail be a hidden chapter of the Bible called after a female?
Let’s see how it pans out and how right or wrong I am.

Okay, I have read some more. They found writing under the rose on the cylinder, but couldn't read it. I thought almost immediately use a mirror, but they didn't think of the obvious for several pages. I don't trust the butler.

I read more. I was suspicious that Teabing was the teacher, but after the incident in the car think I was wrong. I'm betting nothing is released to the public in the end.

Read more. Teabing is the teacher. The butler's private thoughts misled me. Private thoughts should not lie, so that was wrong. Langdon and Sophie walked into what anyone else would know was an obvious trap. This weakens the story. The knight in the office was hiding a microphone. I was right and wrong about that. I suspected it was hiding something, but not that.

Finished. I liked the feminist ideas that Dan Brown proposed. I was wrong about the policeman, but right about some other characters. I believe some people went to look at places featured in this book. The book did not give me the same urge. It was entertaining, but no more than an okay read.

Went to the BookCrossing Meet at Das Kapital in Narrabundah, but no-one took this book.
So I left it in the wild on the book shelf at the back of the room.

(It's a cold night and everyone's inside, that's why the tables outside in this photograph are empty.)

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I returned to Das Kapital to check if the book had been caught. It hadn't been (nor had the other book I left there) and it's been over a month, so I reclaimed both books. I will find somewhere else to leave them.

Left on wall between the bike path and path beside the lake, at the western end of the row of Mongolian pear trees.

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I was just walking around the lake with my family when i saw it on a bench! It made my day haha. I have already read the book, but my brother is keen to read it. Then i will drop it off somewhere else so someone else can read it to :)
Im from queensland, so i might take it up there.

Good (: