The Da Vinci Code: Unputdownable?

Darren Fennessy writes: After reading about ten doorstep sized books over the summer break this year, getting my hands on The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was a refreshing change from the normal run-of-the-mill thriller. It is steeped in history, but not just any old history. You get to delve into the mind of the great Leonardo Da Vinci and see his art as you never thought you would or ever could conceive it. Then there's the religious aspect that had the world questioning, "Is it true?" at the time of the book's release. There is of course always controversy when religious ideologies are questioned. The Da Vinci Code even spurned other books (The Da Vinci Code Decoded by Martin Lun, for example) that try to set the record straight, as it were. They endeavour to separate fact from fiction, but the line sometimes seems to get more blurry the more you read.

The Dan Brown book itself is, in the timely fashion of all the great thriller books you may have ever read, an unputdownable book. It follows a Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon and his unlikely helper, Sophie Neveu, a French police cryptologist as they solve code after baffling code left by the dead curator of the Louvre. Their story unwinds across Paris, London and eventually leads them to Scotland. I hope that doesn't give too much away for those of you who haven't read it. I shall say no more, but this; if you read no other book this year (academic books aside, for all my studious classmates), then you should definitely purchase a copy of The Da Vinci Code.

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Editor's Note: The Tipperary Institute library has four copies of The Da Vinci Code on order.
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