The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003, Hardcover)

If you wish to be fastened to your easy chair anxiously turning pages, yet thinking - what you are reading is beyond whatever could be tenuously credible, yet unable to put the book down, then this might be the book for you.

The Da Vinci Code is filled with plots and subplots. The exhilaration begins within the first few pages of the book and continues almost until the end at which time it became predictable. What a shame to write such a novel that stirs up millions of peoples’ emotions and beliefs, but lets you down at the very end.
There are other writers who preceded Mr. Brown on the same subject, who are scholarly writers, by 20 years, one need only watch the History Channel to learn a little about those who wrote about Mr. Browns’ main plot in the manner in which Mr. Brown did, but they wrote about it as being a theory -possible and in a scholarly way.
What makes the difference is that Dan Brown wrote it as a work of fiction and wove plots and subplots, meshing his novel into something that people might possibly believe and most definitely either titillated or disturbing by readers. Dan Browns’ ability to illustrate concepts, weave plots and subplots in a manner in which the reader is drawn in without regard to reason makes him a master but of what is up to the individual reader to deduce. It offers up interesting points of view. He wrote The DaVinci Code as fiction, not nonfiction and as it is a work of fiction, may I ask, what has been the all the fuss? It is only one man’s stroke of the pen- which has ruffled many feathers and we have paid him well to do it.