Word: vinci
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When Arts introduced the “Bestsellers” subsection for shorter reviews of popular books, I thought for sure that I would soon be reading something on “The Da Vinci Code.” But half of spring semester went by and no intrepid writer has stepped...
...least that was my attitude when I finally read “The Da Vinci Code” during intersession...
After reading “The Da Vinci Code,” I discovered that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...
...Vinci Code” is eminently intriguing not because of the color-by-numbers plot or the clichéd characters, but because of the haunting specter of truth that Brown skillfully creates by melding fiction and nonfiction into an indeterminate alloy...
...VINCI CODE DAN BROWN Centuries ago, Christianity's darkest secrets were hidden--for their safety and ours--in a maze of riddles and paintings and secret societies and murders. Or at least that's what happened in Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap...