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Cracking The Da Vinci Code by Simon Cox check out website: www.mombooks.com and www.crackingdavinci.com
That book is a best seller, about to be made into a film, which is half-thriller, half-mystery which tells, complete with clues, of a search for the Holy Grail. The protagonists, the cryptographer niece of the murdered curator at the Louve museum and an American art specialist follow clues left by the dead curator pursued by the French police, an assassin monk and a variety of other organisations and individuals.
The search involves clues contained in renaissance paintings, carved into medieval Knight Templar churches and hidden in all sorts of codes, ancient and modern. What this book 'Cracking The Da Vinci Code' by Simon Cox attempts to do, apparently wholly unauthorised by Dan Brown, is to provide a species of dictionary which explains what the various symbols and references in the 'Da Vinci Code' mean. As I am now (sadly) lapsing into old codgerdom, I have actually been to most of the places mentioned in Dan Brown's story. I also have an art history degree - mostly Italian Renaissance - and so I was actually familiar with most of the references about painting. I still found this book very useful to look up bits and pieces and I feel it would be even more useful to someone who was not ancient enough to have acquired this knowledge for themselves. However, if you do not intend to read Dan Brown's book then there is no point in buying this one. If you do, it will, I believe, enhance your pleasure at reading it. Finally, be warned, there are a number of books currently available with the same title so be sure to quote the author's name or ISBN when ordering. Paul Hanley
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OTHER REVIEWS - June 2004
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first point to make about this book is that it is not Dan Brown's
'The Da Vinci Code'. I specifically asked to review it because I
thought it was and, at that time, had not read Dan Brown's book.
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