does anybody like the DA VINCI CODE book?
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yea its pretty cool\npeople get all uptight about it but I think its pretty cool.  It's well written and the plot is exciting
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Hi there,\n\nThe Da Vinci Code is a book by Dan Brown.\nIt is quite fascinating to know that Da Vinci hid clues in his pictures. The book also discusses the story of Jesus and Mary Magdaline. And some fascinating inventions by Da Vinci. It also tells us about a brotherhood who protect these children of Jesus and Mary Magdaline, and also safe-guard the holy-grail. The book is quite interesting and I suggest you read it.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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I'm a Christian, and I honestly didn't really see the big thrill with the book.  I feel the same way about Harry Potter.  I think that these two literary pieces of tripe are overrated hacks.
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If you're weak minded and frail in spirit, DON'T read it.\n\nOtherwise, read it and enjoy!  It's a basic detective / mystery novel that makes use of the Holy Blood Holy Grail matter.  It's a work of fiction, but it might spark intrigue.
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No...and I believe the following will enlighten you to some of the falsities of The Da Vinci Code.  It was a very good book, and I enjoyed it, but remember, it's fiction.  It's not a historical account, a classroom text, or any other nonfiction work.  It does not have to be (and is not) true.\n\n\nThe Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church and Opus Dei\nA response to The Da Vinci Code from the Prelature of Opus Dei in the United States. \n\nApril 17, 2006 \nMany people are intrigued by the claims about Christian history and theology presented in The Da Vinci Code. We would like to remind them that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, and it is not a reliable source of information on these matters. \n\nThe Da Vinci Code has raised public interest in the origins of the Bible and of central Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ. These topics are important and valuable to study, and we hope that interested readers will be motivated to study some of the abundant scholarship on them that is available in the non-fiction section of the library. \n\nThose who do further research and exercise critical judgment will discover that assertions made in The Da Vinci Code about Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, and Church history lack support among reputable scholars. By way of example, The Da Vinci Code popularizes the idea that the fourth century Roman emperor Constantine invented the doctrine of the divinity of Christ for political reasons. The historical evidence, however, clearly shows that the New Testament and the very earliest Christian writings manifest Christian belief in the divinity of Christ. Other examples of discredited claims presented in The Da Vinci Code can be found in this FAQ from Catholic Answers or at the US Bishops' website, www.jesusdecoded.com. For those who are willing to take the time to get to the bottom of the issues raised in The Da Vinci Code, we recommend reading The Da Vinci Deception, De-Coding Da Vinci, or The Da Vinci Hoax. \n\nWe also want to point out that The Da Vinci Code’s depiction of Opus Dei is inaccurate, both in the overall impression and in many details, and it would be irresponsible to form any opinion of Opus Dei based on The Da Vinci Code. Those interested in learning more about the real Opus Dei may wish to read What is Opus Dei?, by Dominique LeTourneau, or Uncommon Faith, by John Coverdale. For those interested in further information about the various false impressions The Da Vinci Code gives of Opus Dei, please continue reading. \n\nPlease let us know if you need someone to speak about Opus Dei for a panel or other event about The Da Vinci Code -- we may have a speaker available in your area.  Also, free resource downloads for study groups and parishes are available from the group, Da Vinci Outreach.\n\n\n1. Opus Dei and monks \n\n\nThroughout The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei members are presented as monks (or, rather, caricatures of monks). Like all Catholics, Opus Dei members have great appreciation for monks, but in fact there are no monks in Opus Dei. Opus Dei is a Catholic institution for lay people and diocesan priests, not a monastic order. \n\nOpus Dei’s approach to living the faith does not involve withdrawing from the world like those called to the monastic life. Rather, Opus Dei helps people grow closer to God in and through their ordinary secular activities. \n\n“Numerary” members of Opus Dei – a minority – choose a vocation of celibacy in order to be available to organize the activities of Opus Dei. They do not, however, take vows, wear robes, sleep on straw mats, spend all their time in prayer and corporal mortification, or in any other way live like The Da Vinci Code’s depiction of its monk character. In contrast to those called to the monastic life, numeraries have regular secular professional work. \n\nIn fact, The Da Vinci Code gets Opus Dei’s nature 180 degrees backwards. Monastic orders are for people who have a vocation to seek holi
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It is a movie based on the book The Davinci Code by author Dan Brown. It is a tale of murder and mystery surrounding the search for the Holy Grail, commonly thought of as the cup Jesus used in The Last Supper. If you don't want to know the plot, stop reading now.\n\nDan Brown introduces theories of Jesus having a bloodline AFTER him (not just before him through his mother)through Mary Magdeline. Dan Brown also hints at Mary Magdaline being one of his original 12 disciples-- the one Jesus refers to as "the Beloved Disciple" or the disciple that Jesus loved.\n\nDavinci and other artists of the time were thought to be in secret societies and used their art/paintings to hide clues to lead to the location of the "real" Holy Grail. There are depictions of religious ceremonies that have sex involved. It is an entertaining book--nothing more, and I am sure the movie will draw much controversy. My suggestion is that for the truth about Christ, read THIS bestseller:\n\n"The Bible"
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hi, yes i have seen the Da Vinci Code, and i agree with Professer Drex - it is very good despite what a lot of people have said about it. if you like this kind of film, go and see it. if you have read the book already, be prepared..it may not be exactly as you expect it to be....you know what they say about a film based on the book...although i haven't read the book yet..\nbut it is still great and so is Tom Hanks....enjoy!\none more thing, it may seem boring to some people because it doesn't have as much action as some films i.e MI3etc, only because it isn't that sort of film but just as mysterious. it does have some exciting bits, if a little predictable at times, but with a twist at others.....
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I understand your confusion, and to a ceratin extent, I agree with you.\n\nI read the book, and I plan to see the movie (as soon as the hype dies down).  I think that the reason this book is taken so seriously is for two reasons:\n\n1.  Dan Brown begins the book by stating that all of the groups, artwork, etc. are completely true.  People assume that if these things are true and accurate, then the whole book must be as well.\n\n2.  The whole premise, that Jesus was married and that the "holy grail" isn't a cup but is in fact the holy bloodline of Jesus, isn't a new theory and is one that some people have argued for many years.  Plus, it is plausible!  I'm not saying that it is likely, but it is possible.\n\nWhat I don't understand is why this film has to change poeple's faith.  Even if it was discovered with 100% certainty that Jesus was married, that doesn't change my faith in Christianity at all!  (It makes me wonder about the people who made the decision to cover it all up, but it doesn't change my faith in God.)  In fact, learning that Jesus was married might actually make me identify with Him more than I currently do.\n\nI wish that people would think about that more seriously... what has REALLY changed?
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The book was really informative on a variety of topics although the ending of every chapter had a hook to keep you reading. Even though you felt manipulated into reading on, it was willingly so, since the book was so exciting to read. It was about a mystery, solving a murder, and heavily referenced Catholic Church history, Christianity's history, and religious sects that have sprang up relating to both. In addition, the book also appeals because it contains riddles and puzzles...clues left by the dead man to help his daughter find an important religious artifact.\n\nI highly recommend it.
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You might add more descriptive text.... I just found it on B&N there's only a cover shot. What's it about? Is it fiction or non? etc.\n\nWhatever it's about, find books that are "like that" and find people who have written book reviews on them. Try to find the small books and niche reviewers, not like DaVinci Code\n\nThen contact them, see if they'd be interested. If yes, send 'em a book.
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yeah,but if you dig deeper,the da vinci code is purely fictional,and the catholic church gave out their views on this...most if not everything on dan brown's book is merely a product of his wild imagination...but it was very entertaining...
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iv always love davinci book... its one of my faves now. but having a bad feeling towards the movie--- it was toned-down... has the church been conspiring with the screenwriter??? it did not put the book into real life... tom hanks and cocteau were lame.. THE DECENT ACTING.tsk...a realy BORING SUMMER MOVIE!\n\nI thought the book was hard to read but this\nmovie was even harder to sit through.\n it supposedly is the best film of the year.. \nDO U THINK THE DA VINCI CODE worth the\nLONG WAIT WE GAVE???\nbrrrrrrrrrrrr...\nANYWEI, ONE WUD JUST GO AND SEE the film\ndiscuss and debate.\nok, i enjoyed as bit...(,")
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THE DA VINCI CODE\nDAN BROWN\n\nCenturies 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.\n\nSATURDAY\nIAN MCEWAN\n\nThe possibility that our personal well-being might rest upon very thin ice is a favorite topic of McEwan's. Rarely has he explored it with such serene wit or nasty intensity as in this magnificently unsettling novel, the follow up to his 2002 masterpiece Atonement. His central character, Henry Perowne, is a happy man, a successful London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a very comfortable town house. He also shares the generalized anxieties of people everywhere after 9/11. Then one Saturday he crosses paths with an excitable stranger, a man who will turn up soon again in Perowne's life and give a specific face to all his fears.\n\nNEVER LET ME GO\nKAZU ISHIGURO\n\nSomething is wrong at Hailsham, the very exclusive English boarding school that Kathy H. attends. The students there seem to have no parents, their teachers are wary of them, and they cannot leave the grounds. (You can catch echoes of a dark, inverted Harry Potter.) Part science fiction--horror, part existential waltz, Never Let Me Go is a gripping story about ordinary people trying to wring some joy out of life before it's too late--and for Kathy and her friends, it has always been too late.\n\nAMERICAN PROMETHEUS\nKAI BIRD AND MARTIN J. SHERWIN\n\nBrilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former communists--without ever losing sight of the injustices done to him.\n\nTHE ORIENTALIST\nTOM REISS\n\nMadonna didn't invent self-reinvention. Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe. There he became a swinging socialite and best-selling author using a totally made-up identity, that of a romantic Muslim prince named Essad Bey, a creature of curvy daggers and Moorish sighs. Commingling East and West, art and politics, and featuring countless cameos by the great and powerful, Nussimbaum's unlikely life (lives?) reads like a secret history of the 20th century.\n\nGARLIC AND SAPPHIRES\nRUTH REICHL\n\nWhen Reichl became the New York Times' food critic in 1993, she swiftly set about dismantling the work of her predecessors. To pages previously devoted to fussy French cuisine she introduced Japanese soba and Korean bulgoki, and she handed out stars to places earlier critics wouldn't have gone to wearing surgical gloves. She wore disguises so she could experience the service that ordinary people (i.e. non-food critics) get. Reichl writes dazzlingly about food, of course, but she also explores how liberating it can be to dress up as somebody else. She liberates her readers as well.
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Well I´ve read the book and enjoyed it throughly! But sad to say there is a lot of thingd in the book that is false, \nbut it does makes you wonder. \n\nWhat I can´t understand is that a few years ago there were some old scripures found, but wouldn´d be accepted by the church. These scriptures underwent all the neccassary test to prove its validity(and it was found to be written the time Jesus was alive and 100 after he died).But it was a little bit contridicting to what is in the bible.\n\nAnyway what the da vinci code does is start to put doubt in the minds of people, and why did  the church reacted so strange to this book which is a novel! \n\nAnd okay the thought that Jesus actually has a living heir is strange, but Dan Brown was not the first to write about this there are many other listed books. And ´if´ that were true then the church would clear not want that knowledge to be known because it would loss a lot of credibility.\nSome modern writers,including Dan Brown, have come forward with claims that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus. These writers cite Gnostic writings to support their argument. Sources like the ´Gospel of Philip´ do depict Mary Magdalene as being closer to Jesus than any other disciple. \nHowever, there is no known ancient document that claims she was his wife and Gnosticism was generally non-supportive of sexuality. The closeness described in these writings depicts Mary Magdalene, representing the Gnostics, as understanding Jesus and his teaching while the other disciples, representing the Church, did not.\nMary Magdalene appears with more frequency than other women in the canonical Gospels and is shown as being a close follower of Jesus. Mary's presence at the Crucifixion and Jesus's tomb, while hardly conclusive, is at least consonant with the role of grieving wife and widow, although if that were the case Jesus might have been expected to make provision for her care as well as for his mother Mary. Given the lack of contemporary documentation, this scenario cannot be proven, and although some consider the idea desirable to believe, most scholars do not take it seriously.\n\nAn argument for support of the married status of Jesus is that bachelorhood was very rare for Jewish males of Jesus' time, being generally regarded as a transgression of the first mitzvah (divine commandment) — "Be fruitful and multiply". According to this reasoning, it would have been unthinkable for an adult, unmarried Jew to travel about teaching as a rabbi.\nA counter-argument to this is that the Judaism of Jesus' time was very diverse and the role of the rabbi was not yet well defined. It was really not until after the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70 that Rabbinic Judaism became dominant and the role of the rabbi made uniform in Jewish communities.\nPaul of Tarsus was an example of an unmarried itinerant teacher among Christians. Jesus himself approved of voluntary celibacy for religious reasons and explicitly rejected a duty to marry: "There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." (Matthew 19,12)\n\nThe idea that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus was popularized by books like the pseudo-historical Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982) and The Da Vinci Code (2003), a novel heavily influenced by the former book. These assertions have found no acceptance from scholarly circles.\n\nAnd secret societcy are meant to be kept secret so I don´t expect the historians to find a lot of concrete information about the Priory of Sion. \n\nAnd maybe Leonardo did discover something and instead of just saying or exposing it out right he decided to be clever and hide it within his works of art. After all he was known as a genuis.\n\nSo I(am born and raised catholic, but was taught to have an open mind about things.) personally an very intrigued by this idea of Dan Browns, but I am neither for it nor against it. I
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Yes I've read it. It was written in 1983 or something and contains much of what The Da Vince Code is all about. It centers around a mystery the writers found in a southern French town, and some documents claimed to be found by a Priest named Sauniere (Dan Brown even used similar names in his novels). It is fairly interesting, but written like a historical documentary, so it is not like the page-turner written by Dan Brown. I think Mr. Brown used much of the information of this book and others to make The Da Vince Code. The guys who wrote Holy Blood, Holy Grail even tried to sue him, but failed.
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I just came back from the theater myself....I was kind of dissapointed, it lacks of the surprise factor of the book and the way the clues a presented in a way that the reader can become part of the solving of the riddle, on the contrary, on the film, the  \nriddles are solved in a very obvioud way it seems unreal..it is an average film but surely it will become a big blockbuster due alll the buzz it has generated.
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i have read the book, and i thought that it was brilliant, as for the film it looks a bit dated now so i have not seen it, i think the reason why its so popular is that it was banned for so long and it caused a lot of hype.\n\nread the book, twice, it great