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Título: The Da Vinci Code

Autor: Dan Brown

Obra adaptada: No

Nivel: Avanzado

Review: It was written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003. It is a bestseller that sold more than 80 million copies and has been translated into 44 languages. The narrator is not present in the story and it combines the detective, thriller, and conspiracy fiction genres. 

The book tells us about a professor of Religious Symbology, Robert Langdon, who is looking for “the Holy Grail”. Typical plot with good guys and really bad guys, the police who always arrives one minute later and, of course, the girl. 

The story starts in the Louvre Museum of Paris where Langdon is the prime suspect in the murder of the curator of Louvre. With the help of the curator’s granddaughter, Sophie Neveu, he escapes from the police and they solve a set of puzzles to find a keystone. This key is a device supposedly invented by Leonardo Da Vinci for transporting secure messages. Langdon and Neveu take the keystone to Langdon’s friend Sir Teabing, who is an expert on “the Holy Grail”. With him, they can fly to London and try to solve another long series of brain-teasers, anagrams and puzzles. The ultimate solution is found to be intimately connected with the possible location of the Holy Grail and to a mysterious society called the Priory of Sion, as well as to the Knights Templar. 

I think the book is entertaining although it has too many puzzles in my opinion. Moreover, there are characters who are not so credible, ridiculous situations, the story is quite predictable and the general plot is just nonsense. 

On the other hand I found the language rather easy to understand and follow despite the fact that it is not a simplified version, so I would simply recommend it as an English reading exercise. As a curiosity I saw the film after reading the book and… it was even worse !!!  

Valoración: 2/5

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