THE DA VINCI CODE
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THE DA VINCI CODE

For the past few months, Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code has been all over town. Any bookstore I went too had a dozen copies in the window. At the airport, in magazines, on the Internet. Anywhere I looked, I saw The Da Vinci Code. If this was not enough, everybody started talking about it. Not the book itself but how successful it was, how big a bestseller it became. Then the books about The Da Vinci Code started to appear, analyzing why it was so successful. Others were explaining the contents from a historical point of view. Yet others were criticizing it for incorrectness. The whole thing became very theatrical, which greatly contributed to the success of the novel. I was intrigued. How can, for example, representatives of religious organizations go around criticizing the historical facts in a novel. It is a novel, a work of fiction. Any bookstore or library files the novel under the category of fiction.

Nevertheless, all I can do is to congratulate Dan Brown on his success with The Da Vinci Code. It is remarkable the degree of attention he received for this one book. People praised him as one of the best novelists ever, as a literary genius, etc. Although this is definitely over the top with respect to the literary quality of the book, he really should be esteemed for marketing the book. He definitely found the right buttons to push for millions of people. I even saw the book in Beijing, sold in English for slightly over a dollar off the street stands. I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code but never for a moment thought that it was great fiction. Then I read Dan Brown's other book called Digital Fortress and felt embarrassed as I was reading it. It is poorly researched and even more poorly written. It should not have been published. Stephen Bekes The Da Vinci Code reviews Dan Brown's official website Breaking The Da Vinci Code - Christian History The DaVinci Code website Shantaram - the novel The Standing Babas Books on Chinese Calligraphy: The Upright Brush