Wednesday, April 5
Symbols, Codes, Puzzels and Riddles very maturely intune together. When I feasted my eyes upon this novel, it was an experience I can never explain. Perhaps its in the way of the mindwork of the Novelist, or perhaps its just plain fiction. I may never know, but this is one of the few books that I have come acrossed that really baffles your conditioned thoughts on certain issues.
Let's take for example Leonardo Da Vinci's Famous painting of "The Last Supper". For those unaware of this painting, it's Jesus's last supper before he was crucified. It consisted of 13 men at a table. Look at the painting of "The Last Supper" below.
Many of us believed that the painting consisted of men, but from the book and many other unknown sources, there are statements made where there is one woman in the painting. Mary Magdalene. She was a companion with Jesus till his crucification. Look at the same picture, only thing it's zoomed in.
The person on the left of Jesus is Mary. Now, so far, nothing of a female being in the painting has been mentioned apart from the some resources here and there without substantial evidence. What makes this book really incredible is the flow of "facts" coming together to fit a missing puzzel.
The story-line - 'The Greatest Conspiracy of the Past 2000 years is about to Unravel'.
A short brief for those who have not read the book.
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.
In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.
In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown's bestselling Angels & Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightening-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.
Following this book was really amazing. I now can't wait for the movie to release. Its MAY 19 by the way. Its me looking forward for that and signing off....
Cheers,
Tunitha
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Tuesday, April 4
This is what you call "an idle mind's a devil's workshop"!
Hehe.
Cheers,
Tunitha
P.S: Those who have not read the Da Vinci Code, JUST GO READ IT! You'll know what I mean... Can't wait for the movie to be out!
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