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The DaVinci Code
I am not in the habit of writing reviews of fiction. (Don't be alarmed, I know that The DaVinci Code is a work of fiction.) The only other fiction review on the site is Hugo's classic Les Miserables. The DaVinci Code has become such a cultural phenomenon that I felt it deserved a review. The DaVinci Code is a church-conspiracy-thriller that builds on the thesis developed in Holy Blood Holy Grail . The idea is that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child. The apostles out of jealousy, wrote Mary largely out of the Gospel record. The grail then is not a cup but the offspring of Mary and Jesus and the bloodline is traced to modern times through the Merovingian Kings of France. The book if taken as fact is blasphemous but Brown is a compelling writer, I could hardly put it down. Continue reading Dave's review of The DaVinci Code |
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