Though purchased for Kindle on 21 Jun 12, almost a year ago, I have only just got around to reading it, and now I wished I hadn't waited. This book is one of the best I have read in a vary long time. It is the only Dan Brown book I have read but it certainly won't be the last.
I won't discuss the plot as that's been flogged to death in the previous reviews but I would like to add my opinion of the writing itself. The action is there from the start and it rarely lets up. So good is the style of writing that you actually feel as if you're on the quest from a real live mystery itself. As more clues are unravelled you find yourself trying to figure it out for yourself before the characters do, and you find yourself frustrated when hurdles crop up. I won't spoil the ending of the book only to say that it didn't quite finish as I was expecting it to.
Get this book; you'll be breathless with the fast pace of it. I could not put it down and the fact that the chapters are vary short you'll find yourself just reading one more chapter....just one more chapter...just one more chapter. What a fantastically written book.
Oh, does it offend those who are religious/Christian? It shouldn't do, it's only a story, though the suggestion that Jesus was married and had kids might upset some of the more sensitive. I (almost) a Jehovah's Witness and I didn't find it offensive at all.
I haven't seen the movie so I do not know whether it is true to the book or not but I certainly will be watching it soon.
A note on the Kindle version: vary good - no proplems at all.
I plan on reading the prequel next:
Angels And Demons: (Robert Langdon Book 1)
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