Da Vinci code?

Question

what do you think?are there some real points or its just fiction?i read the book last summer and some of the ideas really messed me up:)

Answer 1

The question is whether the clues make sense in the book, as it is a work of fiction they don't have to add up as they would if it was a historical work. there have been a lot of books on the question of a blood line for Jesus Christ. Some are a lot more convincing than the Da Vinci code. also as Louise the fifthenth was going to the execution he was heard to say, this rabble cannot execute the descendant to christ.

Answer 2

There are a lot of facts in the book but most of it's theories can not be proven or dis proven. Books like that are written to get you into the story.Conspiracy makes for great reading.

It would be interesting if somethings turn out to be true.Try reading some of his earlier books and then compare those to Da Vinci code.

Answer 3

It is based off of the legends associated with the Knights Templar and Opius Dei, however, these are mostly legends, as none of it has been proven.

When I went to Paris, they gave us a "Da Vinci tour" and proved that there are a lot of inconsistancies in the book, especially around the Louvre. He basically used legend and updated it using his imagination.

So who knows! Parts are most definately fiction... but then again, other parts may or may not be and other parts are wholely true. The whole idea of the book is to spur the imagination : )

Answer 4

A serious scientific study has proved by DNA tracking that
the french Merovingian dynasty, that according to the "Da Vinci code" mixed blood with Christ´s descendants, that this is not true, and that Merovingian DNA has no trace at all of middle east blood.

The French doctor who carried out the DNA investigation, when asked about the "Da Vinci code" commented :
"Its just a good story".

Answer 5

Yeah, I saw patterns everywhere for the next few months and i couldn't sleep without a light on....=D
It think Dan Brown was just putting on paper what he thought about Da Vinci and how he spent his whole life with patterns.
I would wonder too what Da Vinci REALLY did every day.
Yeah, I think some parts of it are real, but we just don't know it yet. Maybe DaVinci was allergic to peanuts and the Prion is real or something, we just don't know yet...
=D

Answer 6

Some very interesting, thought-provoking ideas; however, as others have stated, finding "proof" about such things is very hard.

Brown sold it as fiction then tried to say it was based on fact. Unfortunately, as others pointed out, much of his basis has been debunked. The Priory of Sion and its extant head (& purported descendet of Jesus) was found to be a hoax.

Read Holy Blood, Holy Grail for more information, but they also relied on the debunked information regarding the Prior of Sion. That is the "nonfiction" book from which Brown got most of his info and inspiration.

Answer 7

By definition the book is fiction...false...not true...a fantasy of the author. It was interesting reading and it makes you think of possibilities, but that's the fun of literature. It's also why people got so angry about the book. It made people question their own ideas and beliefs. Pretty amazing that a book of fiction can make entire communities question their faith. It keeps our minds working anyway.

Hey...Jurassic Park did the same thing but on a smaller non-religious scale.

Answer 8

It is fiction. It is poorly research and the research he did do was mostly pulled from a few similiar works of fiction.

Think of him as the religious version of Creighton. There is fact under there, but its burried under junk.

Besides, how can you trust a man that in a paragraph about anti-matter states that the opposite of an electron is a proton?

If youre interested in the subject, read some non-fiction.

Answer 9

A good thriller, but the stuff about Jesus' family tree being the Merivengian kings had been debunked even before the book had come out. Even the theory as presented in the book isn't logical. DaVinci is supposed to be protecting Jesus' bloodline and yet DaVinci is also supposed to be part of a sect that sees John the Baptist as the true savior and sees Jesus not as divine but as a usurper. Why is he protecting Jesus' bloodline?

Answer 10

The book works very well because most of the infrastructure is in fact real. The organizations and such do exist, and the story is just loose enough it could work. But it is just fiction.