The Da Vinci Code - Special Illustrated Edition [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Dan Brown (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1ST edition (2004)
• ISBN-10: 0385513828
• ISBN-13: 978-0385513821
• Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 12.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,820,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real or Not?, December 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Da Vinci Code (Audio Cassette)

This book is so well crafted, you can't tell what is actual fact from Mr. Brown's cleaver imagination. Highly recommend this book!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made traffic bearable., November 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Da Vinci Code (Audio CD)

This unabridged edition of this intriguing book kept me looking for reasons to go driving. I will also reread the book just to cross reference the history and art references. For the too busy Americans, all of us, this is a great read (listen).

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Major disappointment + Poor narration = 1 star, October 11, 2003

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Lawrence S Baum (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Da Vinci Code (Audio Cassette)

I bought into the hype over this book and approached it quite eagerly as it promised intrigue and devious puzzles and carefully researched history. Boy, was I disappointed! Dan Brown's writing is annoyingly repetitious (how many times does he use the phrase "the sacred feminine"?) He also has the irritating habit of telling the reader that he is withholding information just to make the reader wait. It's one thing to withhold information; it;s another to tell you it's happening. The former can lead to well-crafted suspense. The latter is just a crude attempt to be suspenseful. And the puzzles that are supposed to be so clever are pretty obvious - simple anagrams and basic ciphers.

This is all compounded by the awful narration of Paul Michael who drones on and on with but a modicum of inflection. Even at the most harrowing moments (there are a few anyway) he never communicates any sense of danger or excitement; just a matter-of-fact recitation of Brown's prose.