The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown, Part One

This, as you probably have noticed, is the first time I have split a book blog into two topics. I was about to continue the Artemis Fowl trend, though decided to start blogging on this book, as I am about halfway to the end. In this book, a symbologist named Robert Langdon goes to the Louvre (Pronounced Loove) where the curator of the French art museum, Jauques Sauniere was murdered by a man named Silas, an Opus Dei extremist. While at the Louvre, Langdon meets Bezu Fache, a policeman in France that believes Robert to be the assassin of Sauniere. All around the body of the curator, codes and markings are written using blood and a blacklight pen, some of which Langdon decodes. Robert also meets Sophie Neveu, a cryptographer for the Judicial Police, who tells Langdon that Fache will stop at nothing to imprison Robert Langdon, and that the only way to keep Langdon out of jail is to escape the Louvre and get to the American embassy. I can not tell you too much more, nor could I have written the part above in any more detail, as that would ruin the surprise of the book, and would therefore ruin the entire first half of the book, and possibly the entire thing.

If you have seen the movie and loved it, as I did, then you will enjoy the book ten times more than the movie. If you have not seen the movie, then you will love it ten times better than the ones who have, as you will not know what to expect. Dan Brown's suspenceful and intricate writing will most certainly make you think and put you on the edge of your seat, or at least that is the case so far. All of the characters are not fully introduced at the place that they enter, which makes you want to read more into a character's story. Pretty much all of the history and description of the artwork is accurate, and you will definately learn many interesting facts from at leat the first half of the book. My overall scoop: so far, a very strong 10 out of 10 on the must-read scale.

Happy Reading!