The DaVinci Code - Did you read it? Share your thoughts! **spoilers**

[Dancind]

The book was fascinating, in fact, I'll read it again. I did do some reading on the Knights of Templar, and the temple in book afterwards. Don't know where the information about Da Vinci came from, but he's right about the painting! It made me get started on my family chart again, my family name is Sinclair. Even though it may be a name the writer picked out of the air, it made an interesting read!

It is funny, though, if any of you can trace your lineage back to Scotland. You get back there, and every first son has the same name as his grandfather, and every second son the same name as his father. You've no idea if you've found a great something or his cousin. Pretty much a dead end.

Diana

 

[Cindy B]

I did read somewhere that this book is now a screenplay. I wonder how the movie will do.

 

[mathboy]

I enjoyed the book from an adventure standpoint, but the absurdity of the religious claims were a bit of a turn off. I know it was fiction, but a little more reality would have enhanced it for me. Overall, though, I enjoyed reading it.

As for the research, I thought it was average at best. He seemed to be very familiar with Paris, art, etc. However, as a math person, I was disappointed with the level of mathematics that was presented. I had been led by others to believe that it was mathematically based. I would probably rate it at a 7th grade level. The Fibonacci numbers are just not that intense.

 

[Cindy B]

Originally posted by mathboy
I enjoyed the book from an adventure standpoint, but the absurdity of the religious claims were a bit of a turn off. I know it was fiction, but a little more reality would have enhanced it for me. Overall, though, I enjoyed reading it.

As for the research, I thought it was average at best. He seemed to be very familiar with Paris, art, etc. However, as a math person, I was disappointed with the level of mathematics that was presented. I had been led by others to believe that it was mathematically based. I would probably rate it at a 7th grade level. The Fibonacci numbers are just not that intense.

I have to agree wiht the Fibonacci sequence. but there was another math principal.. (not PI, but the other one, the name escapes me now).. that was interesting. I am NOT a math woman, so that was about as much math as I can handle!

It was funny as soon as I saw the numbers myself, I thought Fibonacci! (of course I took a recent college level course that talked about Fibonacci!)

 

[Douglas Dubh]

It made me get started on my family chart again, my family name is Sinclair. Even though it may be a name the writer picked out of the air, it made an interesting read!

I doubt he picked it out of the air. The St. Clair's were a major Templar family.