the da vinci code was very lacking, in my opinion.  it comes off as an action/mystery book where events occur through lack luster channels.  it was almost as if everytime they ran into a problem, 'oh i get it' comes to someone's mind from their past experiences or education and whoop the problem is gone.  in other words, climactic possibility was suffocated w/melancholy solutions.  to me it read as though I was watching a european robbery film in super slow motion.
if you don't follow what i'm saying, read the book, then go listen to the audiobook.  listening to someone read something usually allows you (at least me) to analyze something a bit better as your concentrations aren't dialed in on actually trying to comprehend what's written on a page.
has anyone ever wondered if the so called intellectual gain books supposedly give you (i'm talking about fictional books) is overrated where poindexters say it's great and well, you don't wanna look like an ass and w/o really thinking about it, you think it's great, also.  it happened with the movie home alone.
i couldn't write the da vinci code by any means, but there're much more entertaining and/or indepth/complicated/throught-provoking mysteries/whatever you wanna label it as books out there.  the entire premise of the book is about a holy/royal bloodline.  i think the matrix was much more thought provoking and symbolic than this book...not like the second or third matrix movies should've been made.
i'll chalk my lack luster comments up to my taste for something that has the potential to provoke an extended discussion.  when i finished the da vinci code, i didn't think about it for another week until someone brought it up b/c they didn't understand something.  i don't think the topic really entertained me and i gave the book a shot the whole way through.  if you want to read something religiously thought provoking that makes a statement, get paradise lost by john milton (and a cup of coffee w/a notebook b/c a poem a few hundred pages is a little tricky).
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