Hey Friends,
Let me just inform you that this novel is still on the bestseller lists in the USA and Indiatimes.com.
This is a breath taking, thrilling and edge-of-the-seat and use whatever way you might prefer to quote, novel. An amazing work of fiction. Dan Brown has definitely given a lot of research in writing this novel.
This is my first Dan Brown novel and I am already a fan of him.
One of the big reasons of extreme popularity of this novel and definitely a well earned one is that Roman Catholic Church has serious criticism for this novel.
Rings any bells?
See, the story of this novel and the central characters and all that stuff I will tell you but the bottom line of the story is that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and they had a blood line which is still alive and is protected by a secret society called The Priory of Sion. This secret society also protects some secret documents. These documents are so important that if they become public then Christianity will face serious threat and this religion may even get eliminated.
Phew!!
Well, this is something very serious, isn?t it?
Now let?s what?ve we got in the story. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is in Paris giving some lectures and attending seminars, the routine scholarly stuff. There is another symbologist in Paris, who is the head of the secret society Priory of Sion. The head fixes a meeting with Langdon but before the meeting can take place in evening the man is assassinated in a museum.
Before dying this man leaves a strange clue in a Fibonacci sequence (like 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21). And two strange lines ? O, DRACONIAN DEVIL and OH, LAME SAINT. Doesn?t makes much sense right? But then it is a clue, one has to decode it.
Now the grand daughter of this man is working for Paris police department as a professional decoder. She is named Sophie. She comes to rescue of Langdon when he is questioned by police because the dead man left a strange note after this clue P.S. FIND ROBERT LANGDON.
Police suspects Langdon murdered him but that is not correct. Sophie knew that his grandfather was head of some secret society.
Now both of them together while running away from police are trying to decipher this strange clue that eventually leads to a series of clues and finally reveals the position of those secret documents which Priory of Sion has been protecting for millennia.
Another group named Opus Dei is also trying to find out these secret documents but there aim is to destroy them because they are on the Church?s side and are funded by them.
They trail Langdon and finally there is a struggle between the good and the bad and bad dies and good wins and the routine stuff but what happens in between is something that will change your perceptions towards Christianity.
Because the claims made and the proofs provided by the author despite of this being a work of fiction are amazing, very deeply researched and it seems like they might be true.
Add to it the fact that Priory of Sion and Opus Dei are real groups and they are not a work of fiction. And also the names of painting of Da Vinci in the story do really exist and what clues the author is suggesting might be there because Da Vinci was an enigmatic character and he might have left secrets. Besides Leonardo da Vinci was also the head of Priory of Sion.
The author himself tells before starting the story that the facts and names of artifacts he is using in the novel are real. Now this novel is not just an ordinary thing, because I believe it is not just a mere novel, it actually is a theory provided by Dan Brown.
And the theory is that Jesus Christ was a married man, had a blood line which is still present and guarded over by Priory of Sion. There are some secret documents that prove the present location of the blood line and the whole story of transferring the wife of Jesus Christ over to different places in order to save her from church.
People who have taste for reading history might know that that the quest for different things related to Jesus is still on. People want ?The Cup of life?, in which Jesus drank wine in painting ?The Last Supper?. All such clues and hints are used by author very brilliantly in order to relate the story to reality and when while you read and relate things to real life and you start to get a feel that the things author is suggesting might be real, it makes the reading very very thrilling.
All in all the novel is a real fine work of fiction and it needs to be read, not because it is interesting and thrilling and all those things we say about good novels but it is a book which gives a completely new theory about Christianity and shakes the whole existence of it, once in your mind during these book one will feel that these things might be true.
Accept this theory or reject it, that is your decision but one must know that there are some things about Christianity which are dark and clandestine.
A must read, a very compelling read, a page turning thriller, enjoy and be enlightened!!
Mr. Gautam