The Da Vinci Code Wow! This book has been on the bestseller list forever, and my friend in Dallas was kind enough to send it to me after passing it around to her neighborhood ‘book club.’ I had no clue what to expect, but got a good mystery, a history lesson, and a lot of thought-provoking information about religion. Set in Paris and surrounding areas, Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor who was introduced in a previous book that I’ll have to get, is suspected (by a French police captain of questionable integrity) of a murder he didn’t commit. With any mystery, I always try to guess ‘whodunit’ and usually guess right, but not this time. How Langdon tries to set the record straight, with whom, and the trouble they encounter form the story. The art history lesson didn’t light my fire, but it never hurts to learn something new. But at least this was a good way to learn. The workings of the Vatican and lower levels of the church are always interesting to read about and continually make me wonder who you can really believe or trust. This was the first book I’ve read by this author, and I’ll certainly pick up his other books. |