Da Vinci Code I

I’ve recently read an article about all false facts and information Dan Brown put into his The Da Vinci Code book. It was quite interesting to see how the author of the article was criticizing Brown for all the myths and legends he mixed up with some true stories. Having some Bible knowledge I’ve decided to check it for myself. So I have just started reading the book The Da Vinci Code and like it a lot. I bet many of you have read this book and even may have seen the movie but I have done neither. It will be a good research for me to see how fiction and truth are mixed to make this controversial book more interesting.

Dan Brown is known of writing books that bring controversies and a lot of opposition, especially from the Catholic Church. His Angels and Demons was one of them, where he had in a very cool way mixed real, historic facts with his own fiction ideas. In the The Da Vinci Code he takes us to the Masonic world of mysterious rites and symbols. In a twisting way he turns upside down the most important beliefs of the Christian world. He says that Jesus has married Mary Magdalene and their son was a protoplast of a European’s royal dynasty. Quite twisting idea isn’t it. Brown says it in his book like it was an absolute truth, and I guess people with little knowledge of this matter may take it. What is interesting about this genre is that this type of mixing facts and myths make the book “more” real. Some people get offended saying that their religious feelings were hurt, but this is just an action book where all people and organizations are portrayed, but fictional.

Dan Brown is not a documentary writer. He is a good fiction writer that skillfully uses subjects and myths for his bestselling success. You can pinpoint all the flaws and culprits, but that’s not the point. I guess Dan Brown is just getting happier about all of those “detective jobs.” More controversy, more publicity for the book and movie – and that’s what is all about.