The Da Vinci Code

With reading the Robert Langdon series, I hopped right from one to the other.

Oh, The Da Vinci Code; you are probably more likely to have seen the movie. Whenever I would go looking for books, especially in used bookstores or antique stores, I usually see a few copies of The Da Vinci Code. I saw the movie before reading the book, and I remember it creating so much controversy.

We see Robert Langdon back at it again with his Oxford loafers, this time running away from authorities in France with a Sophie Neveu, raised by the murder victim we run into in the first few pages. Robert and Sophie are trying to solve the puzzle of a mysterious sect of people who [Spoiler] believe that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Christ and they had a child together.

The story always interested me. As someone making this a year to actively study the Bible, one of those sub-goals was to try to read the books not included in the canon as we know it. The Da Vinci Code was not wrong, there is a lot we are missing from exclusive decisions made by people long ago to fit their agenda in terms of Jesus’ time with us. The only real quest would be to find those lost books of the Bible. Everything else though, like Dan Brown’s other books, contain large amounts of false information which at the time of release was claimed to have extensive research, only to later on be debunked.

It was interesting to note the relationship between Robert and Sophie in this one. In Angels and Demons, it was a dynamic that was respect for their individual fields with a hint of increasing romanticism, whereas with The Da Vinci Code, Robert and Sophie worked together in a way of giving each other hints to solve the puzzle. Robert also seemed like someone who was more of guide in trying to help her understand her childhood and her identity. I thought it was awkward to have them develop feelings for each other. For this adventure, I do not feel it was all too necessary.

The writing was also more entertaining in this book than other Robert Langdon books coming in the series. 

I feel like this was one of the better Robert Langdon books. This was still a one-and-done for me, though. If you are looking for a copy of The Da Vinci Code, it can be found here.

8/10