The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The best of few novels that are ever written by any author. A mystery-detective thriller novel wrapped in story linked with Christianity which has his roots buried in the past. Novel shows the battle between Priory of Sion and Opus Dei; one of which thinks Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. Dan Brown has used the famous Last Supper very significantly.Well the novel includes a long list of known scientist, leaders, inventors, etc. A very magnificent book written by Dan Brown.

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The Da Vinci Code Movie

The story starts when the Prof, Robert Langdon's name was found out at crime scene, that is murder; the body was displayed like Da Vinci's famous drawing. From there the Robert meets Sophie, a cryptographer, which claims to the victim’s granddaughter. After going through the codes placed hysterically in museum, Robert and sophie escapes from museum. They are headed to Depository Bank where they find a cryptex. A tool which can only be opened by correct answer and if the answer turns out to be wrong the message inside will be destroyed. For opening it Robert seeks help of his friend, who has different plans for it. His friend reveals a dozen of secrets to them. After a long rush the Robert cracks the code and gets the message and in the end Sophie turns out to be a part of blood line of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Well precisely this was not the end, the true meaning of messages leads Robert to the museum where it all started. The Holy Grail was buried under a pyramid in museum.

This book can be the most magnificent piece of art in mystery category. A Magnificent book read by almost every book reader around the globe. The book is very entertaining piece of art or I should say a book to be placed in classics of all time. This book is translated in almost all languages and also movie is made based on this novel starring Tom Hanks. Even the movie proved out to be Blockbuster.

The Last Supper

A wonderful book, comprises everything we can imagine. I hope you might have read this book and if not,then surely read it and go through the world which Dan Brown tried to create. This book is definitely to be placed in the list of "Books to be read before Death".

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