The Da Vinci?

Question

I would like some facts about the da vinci code, the novel, if you have read it, your help would be greatly appreciated. Facts such as plot summary ...etc Thank you

Answer 1

The DaVinci code is a poorly written novel by an author who can make two chapters out of a five minute interval. The basic plot is a standard: outsiders discover group's conspiracy plot and must stop them without involving the police or other authorities. This book in particular caught the public interest because it included some historical facts that were not well-known regarding Catholicism, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene, mixed with a lot of conjecture and theory in a hodge-podge that managed to be plausible. The idea is that Mary Magdalene was actually Jesus' wife or lover and bore his child after his death. The child, a daughter, was cherished and protected by a small group, but fanatics spurred on by the apostle Paul (a rabid woman-hater in fact and fiction) wanted to obliterate the memory of Mary and preserve the picture of Jesus as celibate, ideally by killing the daughter and everyone who knew about her. This fight is carried forward to the present day, with a Catholic splinter sect taking the fanatic side and a quasi-pagan secret society taking the 'Holy Mary Magdalene' side. They are in uneasy truce as long as the secret remains secret. The rest of the plot has been posted already, but there is way more lecturing than necessary; the author obviously felt that his plot depended on a broader knowledge of the world than his audience had and he needed to instruct his readers. He also uses the lecture device to make theories and superstitions sound like accepted scholarly facts, thus leading to an entire subgenre of books refuting and/or explaining the DaVinci code.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

If you can't be bothered to actually read the book, then at least go out and rent the movie. It's rather interesting actually.

You'll get more out of anything if you do your own work. Good luck!

Answer 4

Haven't read the book yet.

Answer 5

I assume it is a school assignment and you just dont like to read...

Answer 6

Give this guy a chance. Oh, try wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DaVinci_Code#Plot_summary