Addiction to the Code
If anyone told you this was going to be a review of Dan Brown’s infamous “The Da Vinci Code,” then I would have to disappoint you. Because this wouldn’t be a review. This article will not be rational in finding the boons and banes of this novel. This will only attest my obsession to this highly intriguing novel. This’ll be an article dedicated in praising Dan Brown’s masterpiece. But then, I’ll still try my best.
Before you get any more lost, granted that you have been living under your headsets for the last few months and haven’t heard about this literature, allow me to enlighten you a little bit. “The Da Vinci code” is Dan Brown’s novel that begins as a murder mystery with the death of Louvre curator, Jacques Saunier. Here he displays his most celebrated character yet, Robert Langdon, Harvard symbologist who has a knack for having long stressful nights. Who comes to solve the puzzle linked with the curator’s death so as to absolve himself of the blame since he has become the principal suspect.
I won’t tell you anything more than that. True, this novel is gripping. I do remember not being able to put it down and spending my entire night reading it because I couldn’t stop until I saw the end. It has the kind of edge that leaves you amazed, baffled, and wondered all at the same time. I haven’t read anything that has so many twists in its story. One moment, you smile to yourself because you think you already know it. The next minute, you get lost again. And it’s not very dissimilar to feeling outsmarted.
A lot of issues have risen along this novel’s climb to the bestseller’s list. It’s not only sensational because of its intriguing mystery. This is also because of the issues it raised regarding the Roman Catholic Church belief and more specifically, the religious sect, Opus Dei. Something that tackles that sensitive an issue couldn’t be expected to be left rising unscathed. But despite this, “The Da Vinci Code” still rose to fame, even eliciting approval from both critics and mass readers. But still this isn’t for clerics.
A lot, though, of the people I know to have read of the book have began to seriously doubt their faith. Not that I blame them. The Church doesn’t seem to be as perfect as it seemed to be. But as I recall, there was something mentioned in the book that proves true. The Church was organized by men. Therefore it is a product of man. If you choose to believe in it is a matter of deciding whether you believe in mankind or not. This, shouldn’t matter much with your beliefs in divinity or your beliefs at all. Religion, I think, is just the bandwagon. Believing in it, doesn’t make you a saint. It doesn’t make you a sinner, either. It just makes you human. Same thing if you decide to turn against the Church and become a pagan after reading the book. You’re believing something created by another man.
Bottom line is, works like these were made to inspire and entertain us. If they radically change our lives, it’s all up to us. But believing in them doesn’t truly make you any different than everyone else.
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my draft for "the da vinci code" review doesn't seem to make ay sense. darn it.
If anyone told you this was going to be a review of Dan Brown’s infamous “The Da Vinci Code,” then I would have to disappoint you. Because this wouldn’t be a review. This article will not be rational in finding the boons and banes of this novel. This will only attest my obsession to this highly intriguing novel. This’ll be an article dedicated in praising Dan Brown’s masterpiece. But then, I’ll still try my best.
Before you get any more lost, granted that you have been living under your headsets for the last few months and haven’t heard about this literature, allow me to enlighten you a little bit. “The Da Vinci code” is Dan Brown’s novel that begins as a murder mystery with the death of Louvre curator, Jacques Saunier. Here he displays his most celebrated character yet, Robert Langdon, Harvard symbologist who has a knack for having long stressful nights. Who comes to solve the puzzle linked with the curator’s death so as to absolve himself of the blame since he has become the principal suspect.
I won’t tell you anything more than that. True, this novel is gripping. I do remember not being able to put it down and spending my entire night reading it because I couldn’t stop until I saw the end. It has the kind of edge that leaves you amazed, baffled, and wondered all at the same time. I haven’t read anything that has so many twists in its story. One moment, you smile to yourself because you think you already know it. The next minute, you get lost again. And it’s not very dissimilar to feeling outsmarted.
A lot of issues have risen along this novel’s climb to the bestseller’s list. It’s not only sensational because of its intriguing mystery. This is also because of the issues it raised regarding the Roman Catholic Church belief and more specifically, the religious sect, Opus Dei. Something that tackles that sensitive an issue couldn’t be expected to be left rising unscathed. But despite this, “The Da Vinci Code” still rose to fame, even eliciting approval from both critics and mass readers. But still this isn’t for clerics.
A lot, though, of the people I know to have read of the book have began to seriously doubt their faith. Not that I blame them. The Church doesn’t seem to be as perfect as it seemed to be. But as I recall, there was something mentioned in the book that proves true. The Church was organized by men. Therefore it is a product of man. If you choose to believe in it is a matter of deciding whether you believe in mankind or not. This, shouldn’t matter much with your beliefs in divinity or your beliefs at all. Religion, I think, is just the bandwagon. Believing in it, doesn’t make you a saint. It doesn’t make you a sinner, either. It just makes you human. Same thing if you decide to turn against the Church and become a pagan after reading the book. You’re believing something created by another man.
Bottom line is, works like these were made to inspire and entertain us. If they radically change our lives, it’s all up to us. But believing in them doesn’t truly make you any different than everyone else.
-
my draft for "the da vinci code" review doesn't seem to make ay sense. darn it.
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