Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars: The Story Behind the Da Vinci Code

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Be the first to ask a question about Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Feb 24, George Ilsley rated it did not like it Shelves: Almost entirely free of content, this book is mostly a list of speculative, rambling questions with never any sort of answer. In other words, there are lots of mysteries, but no secrets. A and B both lived in the south of France in the 12th century. Therefore, it is almost certain that they met and shared all their secrets. So and so went to Egypt. Is it possible that while there he learned all of Eqypt's ancient mysteries?

Many times I Almost entirely free of content, this book is mostly a list of speculative, rambling questions with never any sort of answer. Many times I had to re-read a paragraph to try and discover how a discussion of one thing became a conclusion or speculation about something else. There would never be a connection, just a giant preposterous leap. The authors try to mine the premise that the Templars are just one link in a chain of guardians and list other links as being almost everyone throughout history who is famous, Alexander the great, Charlemagne, etc.

Much cherry-picking goes on to support this view: Alexander's great successes are mentioned, his early death and immediate reversals are not. There are genuine mysteries in the world, like the Oak Island "money pit", yet this book adds nothing to the discussion.

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I usually enjoy books like this one; perhaps I have read too many of them. Nov 10, Foggygirl rated it liked it. On the whole an interesting read. Katharine Cvetkovic-Lovrencic rated it it was amazing Apr 30, Anthony rated it really liked it Jun 09, Rob rated it did not like it Feb 02, Nigel Woollsey rated it it was ok Oct 09, Dundurn Press rated it it was amazing Apr 03, Miguel Soto rated it it was ok Feb 14, Andrew May rated it it was amazing Jul 16, Cheryl rated it liked it May 25, Amanda Penton rated it did not like it Nov 07, Pakitoinuriak marked it as to-read Oct 19, Brown takes the format he has been developing through three earlier novels and fine-tunes it to blockbuster perfection.

David Lazarus of The San Francisco Chronicle said, "This story has so many twists—all satisfying, most unexpected—that it would be a sin to reveal too much of the plot in advance. Let's just say that if this novel doesn't get your pulse racing, you need to check your meds. He shares my characters' fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.

The role of the Knights Templar. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist. The book appeared on a list of best books ever written, which was derived from a survey of more than 15, Australian readers. A novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.

Stephen Fry has referred to Brown's writings as "complete loose stool-water" and "arse gravy of the worst kind". I mean, there's so much more that's interesting and exciting in art and in history. It plays to the worst and laziest in humanity, the desire to think the worst of the past and the desire to feel superior to it in some fatuous way. Author Lewis Perdue alleged that Brown plagiarized from two of his novels, The Da Vinci Legacy , originally published in , and Daughter of God , originally published in He sought to block distribution of the book and film.

However, Judge George Daniels of the US District Court in New York ruled against Perdue in , saying that "A reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that The Da Vinci Code is substantially similar to Daughter of God " and that "Any slightly similar elements are on the level of generalized or otherwise unprotectable ideas. Perdue's arguments were "without merit". In reply to the suggestion that Henry Lincoln was also referred to in the book, since he has medical problems resulting in a severe limp, like the character of Leigh Teabing, Brown stated he was unaware of Lincoln's illness and the correspondence was a coincidence.

Smith also hid his own secret code in his written judgement, in the form of seemingly random italicized letters in the page document, which apparently spell out a message.

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Smith indicated he would confirm the code if someone broke it. In April Mikhail Anikin, a Russian scientist and art historian working as a senior researcher at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, stated the intention to bring a lawsuit against Dan Brown, maintaining that he was the one who coined the phrase used as the book's title and one of the ideas regarding the Mona Lisa used in its plot. Anikin interprets the Mona Lisa to be a Christian allegory consisting of two images, one of Jesus Christ that comprises the image's right half, one of the Virgin Mary that forms its left half.

Anikin eventually compiled his research into Leonardo da Vinci or Theology on Canvas , a book published in , but The Da Vinci Code , published three years later, makes no mention of Anikin and instead asserts that the idea in question is a "well-known opinion of a number of scientists. The book has been translated into over 40 languages, primarily hardcover. Columbia Pictures adapted the novel to film, with a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman , and Academy Award winner Ron Howard directing.

The movie received mixed reviews.

Roger Ebert in its review wrote that "Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist; he follows Brown's formula exotic location, startling revelation, desperate chase scene, repeat as needed and elevates it into a superior entertainment, with Tom Hanks as a theo-intellectual Indiana Jones. The film received two sequels: Ron Howard returned to direct both sequels. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Da Vinci Code disambiguation. List of The Da Vinci Code characters. Criticism of The Da Vinci Code.

The Da Vinci Code film. The New York Times. San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on June 4, Retrieved January 4, Archived from the original on January 10, Retrieved May 25, Spawns of Dan Brown's Bestseller". Archived from the original on History vs The Da Vinci Code.

I have used the term 'the earthly and visible Bethlehem' because the heretics believed there is a different and invisible earth in which — according to some of them — the 'good' Christ was born and crucified. Robert Appleton, The idea of the unreality of Christ's human nature was held by the oldest Gnostic sects [ The Idea of a Town.

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