Robert Langdon #2

Da Vinci Code

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Enfermé dans la Grande Galerie du Louvre, Jacques Saunière n'a plus que quelques instants à vivre.
Blessé mortellement, le conservateur en chef va emporter son secret avec lui. Il lui reste cependant un mince espoir de ne pas briser cette chaîne ininterrompue depuis des siècles. Mais il lui faut agir vite. Une seule personne au monde peut prendre la relève, décrypter le code et être traquée à son tour...

744 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2003

This edition

Format
744 pages, Paperback
Published
May 3, 2005 by Pocket
ISBN
9782266144346
ASIN
2266144340
Language
French
Characters More characters
  • Sophie Neveu

    Sophie Neveu

    Sophie Neveu is the granddaughter of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. She is a French National Police cryptographer, who studied at the Royal Holloway, University of London Information Security Group.She was raised by her grandfather from an early age, af...

  • Robert Langdon

    Robert Langdon

    Eminent Harvard Professor of religious iconology and symbology. Avid water polo player....

  • Sir Leigh Teabing
  • Silas (The Da Vinci Code)
  • Bezu Fache
  • Jerome Collet

About the author

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Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown's novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.

In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.”

The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing. He lives in New England with his yellow lab, Winston.

Brown's latest novel, Origin, explores two of the fundamental questions of humankind: Where do we come from? Where are we going?

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March 31,2025
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بار اول که کتاب راز داوینچی را خواندم برایم مسحورکننده بود، دو سال پیش فیلمش را دیدم و هنور جذاب بود، اما مرور داستان برای بار سوم چندان مرا به دنبال خود نکشاند و آن را نیمه رها کردم. شاید علت این موضوع، لو رفتن معماهای داستان باشد. اولین بار تقریبا ده سال پیش راز داوینچی را خواندم و امتیازم به آن برای بار اول پنج بود.
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تاریخ را همیشه برنده‌ها می‌نویسند. وقتی دو فرهنگ با هم برخورد می‌کنند، بازنده از بین می‌ره و برنده کتاب‌های ﺗﺎرﯾﺨﯽ رو می‌نوﯾﺴﻪ ـ ﮐﺘﺎب‌ﻫﺎﯾﯽ ﮐﻪ آرﻣﺎن ﺧﻮدﺷﻮن رو ﺗﻤﺠﯿﺪ می‌کنه و دﺷﻤﻦ ﻣﻐﻠﻮب رو ﺣﻘﯿﺮ ﺟﻠﻮه میده. ﻧﺎﭘﻠﺌﻮن ﮔﻔﺘﻪ ﺗﺎرﯾﺦ ﭼﯿﺴﺖ، ﻣﮕـﺮ داﺳﺘﺎنﻫﺎﯾﯽ ﮐﻪ ﺑﺮ ﺳﺮ آن ﺗﻮاﻓﻖ می‌کنند؟
March 31,2025
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(A-) 80% | Very Good
Notes: Excessive exposition and ludicrous writing discolor an otherwise captivating, thought-provoking, page-turning read.
March 31,2025
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it's an action movie! it's a book! it's an action movie!

it surprises me that the movie version was so dull, having such a simple adapted screenplay to write. this book reads like a blockbuster looks. and i will admit that i totally loved it while i was reading and forgot it promptly after, but i did the same when i watched vin diesel in XXX.

it's a very fun read. it's horrendously written, the characters are rather shallow, there are enough chase scenes and things popping out of dark corners to satisfy anyone's juvenile appetite for suspense. and if you're catholic or knowledgeable at all about religion, it does provide some fodder for thought in between all the drama. but after you think, you realize that none of this information, true or not, is really that shocking and has little effect on the catholic faith. people would do well to learn about the nature and history of their belief system a little more.

i still can't figure out how this book has caused so much controversy. let me rephrase that. i still can't figure out how people can be so oblivious and closeminded as to be scandalized by drivelly fiction. i was on an airplane a while ago and i sat next to a man reading "cracking the davinci code" or one of those other pissed off books that came out soon after. i asked him what he thought of the book. he said, 'oh! i've never read the da vinci code! it goes against the catholic church! why would i read such blasphemy? i just want to be armed with information when i speak to some simple-minded person who believes that heretic dan brown!"

i wish i could make that kind of stuff up.

i was silent, smiled and nodded, and quickly opened up Kavalier and Clay. i simply had no idea how to respond to someone who was taking notes on a book to collect information on a novel that he had never read so he could disprove the opinions of those who thought it was true. what?


March 31,2025
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It created a different branch of thriller genre. I liked this book when I read it. Then I read many other books similar to this and at one point I got tired and switched to read fantasies. But before I was much into fantasies, I was a dedicated conspiracy thriller reader. It's one of the best books of this kind.
March 31,2025
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First of all, let's try to rid our mind of all the hype and hoopla surrounding the whole thing. Let's pretend the whole thing is just some spiral bound notebook that you found on the train and read because you were lonely.


Ok, having accomplished that, let's dole out some compliments. Good plot, Danny boy! You managed to write an interesting crime/mystery/whatever thing WHILE managing to blaspheme one of the most worshiped dudes of all time. That takes some creativity, and some balls. Kudos.

If i might suggest something, though- and I realize this is hurtful, but take it like a man big guy- you probably could have done the literary world a favor by giving this wonderful little story to, er, a writer. I mean, it's nice to be able to read the whole thing in one afternoon without even having to get up for a piss, but I couldn't help but feel like I was reading the newspaper the whole time. And that's a big part of a book's validity- the whole "quality of writing" thing.

Anyway, you kind of got fucked over with the whole international attention thing- now all the 'cool' people in the world will diss on your book because it's way overblown, and the only people who still embrace will be those poor little simpletons who don't know the difference between hip and square. Looks like it's a life in the lower-middle class for you, Mr. Brown.

But hey- enjoy that swimming pool filled with gold doubloons.
March 31,2025
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I didn't realize I never bothered with a review for this; I'm cranky today, so now seems like a good time.

The only good thing about having read this (probably ten years ago) was that I did not pay for it. The woman I was working for at the time forced me to read it; she had read it and thought it was wonderful, and since I had some kind of reputation as a reader she wanted (demanded, actually) my opinion.

I gave it to her.

I don't really think that has anything to do with the fact that I didn't work for her much longer.

I really did hate this book. I hated this book before I knew it was cool to hate it.

The writing was mediocre – that's not why I hated it, though it made (makes) me sick that something that led the best-seller list for approximately a hundred and sixty-three years was so bad.

I don't generally go for international suspense thriller type things – that's not why I hated it either.

I was raised Catholic, and this was an absurd view of a conspiracy-laden church that was so dumb as to be offensive – but that – the Vatican's opinion aside – is still not why I hated it.

The reason I got that blue-laser-beam duck-and-cover light in my eyes when I read this was that it completely and totally screwed with art history. I kick myself once in a while that I deleted the web page I put up at the time outlining and illustrating the things Dan Brown simply got wrong about the paintings and artists he pretended to know so much about. There was a lot of stuff up there. I'm no expert; I went to art school, though, and the best teacher I ever had in any subject happened to be the one who taught History of Western Art. It offended me on her behalf that there was so much garbage spewed out in this book.

Someone defensively said to me once that at least it was bringing attention to Da Vinci and art and the Louvre and … stuff. To me that's like saying an A-list celebrity benefits from the attention of paparazzi. There's a strong similarity: if all a person goes by is the sordid and erroneous crap spoon-fed to them by such authorities as Dan Brown or the National Enquirer, they would be better off remaining completely ignorant.

I'm still cranky. Hm … Did I ever review Twilight …?
March 31,2025
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I am utterly stupefied by this masterpiece and Dan Brown's ability to blur the lines between the real and the fictional, as he did in the first book in the Robert Langdon series. It's a mouthwatering book, always keeping you on the edge, from page one up until the last page I could hear my own heart beating because of the thrill.

I had found the first book extraordinary when I read it three months ago and I'm so glad I finally read it, especially after all those years of reading the controversial reviews regarding this book, which is so full of cryptic messages and honestly is amazing to see how our two protagonists decipher those messages, ultimately leading to the truth. To my view, this one far exceeded the first book of the series. The formula was almost the same, although now we didn't have the illuminati, it was a sole man, not an entire organization ready to take down an entire city.

I really really love how Brown took real events, real symbols etc and wove them into such an intricate story about a secret that could change everyone's beliefs, change the entire world as we know it.

Take Da Vinci's most famous painting to kick off your story nicely and artistically, add a secret organization protecting a powerful secret, add some lies and deceit and lots of intrigue and yes that's the formula to creating an incredible book. But it takes a masterful author to create an incredible book such as this one.

I won't start talking about the protagonists because I'm never gonna stop babbling about their awesomeness. Langdon just rose on the scale of my list of the most brilliant characters, meanwhile I loved Sophie Neveau as the companion of Robert. They fit amazingly good together, always filling the blanks together and assisting each other when they hit an insurmountable cryptic message which neither thought they could decode.

I am in awe by Brown's amazing mind. The way he writes, all those details of real, existing history and art, all mixed together... He must be a genius, and he must have done one hell of a research before writing this.

If you've read the first book, loved it and you fear that this will fall short of your expectations then be sure that this will be one hell of a ride for you.
March 31,2025
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شيفرة دافنتشي عنوان موفق.
فكل الأحداث والرموز والأسرار تبدأ من شيفرة دافنتشي.
لا أستطيع ان انهي رواية لدان براون بسرعة، فهي تحتاج الى قراءة مركزة وإلا فإن الأحداث ستفوتك وتتوه.
طبعا الرموز والصور والمواقع جميعها حقيقية ولكن ان تطوعها من اجل رواية بوليسية مليئة بالمغامرات فهي العبقرية بعينها.
والتنقل بين فصول الرواية غاية في الروعة، فهو ينهي الفصل عند اكتشاف جديد ، كأنك تشاهد فيلما سينمائيا وعندما ينتقل الى موقع اخر في الرواية تغضب وتريد ان يعود الى حيث كنّا ولكن عبقريته في التنقل بين الأحداث يجعلك لا تطيق صبرا للانتهاء من هذا الفصل لتعود الى حيث كنت مع الاكتشاف الجديد.
اعتقد انها اروع رواياته مع انني لم اقرأ رواية الجحيم بعد.

استخدام جوجل للبحث عن الأماكن ورؤيتها او اللوحات الفنية ومشاهدتها أساسي لقراءة الرواية وكل رواياته.

شكرا دان براون
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