Ok, it isnt a bad book infact it does make an interesting read(kept me glued through). but what i write here is for those people who have the audacity to compare it to classics!!Either they dont know what a classic is or they just lack the IQ to understand any!
I agree my words are too harsh and i know i am inviting a lot of criticism, but then the hysteria about the book...and my equally dismal experience forces me to give my point of view.Friends i discussed this with argued, its a splendid book.look at all the hidden truths it reveals. Gimme a break.If you want to know truth or facts, or want a perspective on a religion, you dont need to read fiction for that.get your facts right!Get a non-fiction' for that, do some research and you'll find out much more than what the book provides or if you are those types who like everything served on a silver platter, see discovery or history channel for detailed programs dedicated to such causes( they'll even show you some da vincis!!)
First things first, the climax is too melodramatic(read filmi) and superfluous.the build up in the story excites you, exposes the evils and the wrong doings of the medivial age ,gives a new perspective on christanity....and the list goes on.One starts expecting too much.I myself am guilty of letting loose my imagination- a startling revelation or a daring or an astonishing ending which would rock the world were some of my wild ideas. But even the author couldnt handle all the facts he imbibes in his book, end result you realize it was all a damn squib.In the beginning the whole world seems to be involved,conspiring as part of the plot you feel you are part of a revolution but then the blame falls on one evil soul who somehow manages to find out everthing of the great secret which was so well preserved for centuries!there are just too many loopholes in the plot.
so what's left of the storyline.....umm....i am sure more than half of the readers guessed the "master" no sooner than he was introduced,there wernt many options available.add to this the silly parallel story of the reason behind the estrangement of the granddaughter.There's a wild concoction of juvenile plots combined to give you a very often-repeated and common storyline.the end makes you wish you hadnt waited like crazy and thought of all the various options or tried to decipher the myteries he had promised to reveal.yes no doubt the hints initially and the way they got to the answers was very interesting but that was about it and that is not enough for me to call a book a legend.
may be i am being too hard it wasnt that bad, but remove the interesting "juicy" details of the pions and the story of the grail, it can be easily be typecasted as a sidney look alike.and for me if books are food for the mind, then sidneys are junk food!but then we all like a difference of flavor sometime.personally i have an abhorrence for sidneys(having read all(eesshhh!!)) .makes my blood boil when people call such trash gold!
Read 'The old man and the sea' by Ernest Hemmingway recently,thats what i call truly breath taking. a line form it read "man can be destroyed but not defeated", which still haunts me.the guts and the never say die spirit of the old fisherman enthused in me a new level of excitement and hope, which has stayed with me, unlike my enthusiasm with the DV code which fizzled out with the last few pages.may be some wont agree with me about a book having an impact and an impression for keeps, they believe in read and forget. sorry that's not for me.I dont appreciate that genre of books anymore.
i am not choosy when it comes to reading a book.i can read any and everything.i have read a whole wide range of books of such masala mix books and may be that's made me realize the worth of a classic.'The Da Vinci code' is a nice book,hats off to the author for all the work hes put in and it is a great effort, but please the next time you say its as good as a classic remember me and my pleas.