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CLEARED. DAN BROWN, 41, author of The Da Vinci Code, of copyright infringement; by London's High Court. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had claimed that Brown had copied the "central theme" of their nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Both books propose that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child and that their bloodline lives on today...
CLEARED. Dan Brown, 41, whose 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code, was denounced by the Vatican for "falsify[ing] the figure of Christ" on its way to becoming one of the best-selling (40 million copies) adult novels in history; of allegations that he lifted a theme--that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child--from another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail; in a verdict by Britain's High Court that clears the way for next month's release of the film version of the book, starring Tom Hanks; in London. Brown, who acknowledged reading Blood...
Real organizations and objects—the machiavellian Opus Dei, the eerie art of Da Vinci, and the esteemed college of hero Robert Langdon—blend so easily into Brown’s fantasy world that I began to wonder whether that long-haired fellow sitting to Jesus’ right in the “Last Supper” might just actually be a woman. I pulled up the painting using Google image search to take a closer look...
When I finished the book, I went and searched the “truth of da vinci code” online because I was no longer sure what was real and what was not. That creeping feeling of doubt is precisely what separates Brown’s blockbuster from other puzzle-based thrillers. And it is what makes the novel such a satisfying read...
...Vinci Code By Dan Brown Anchor...