Monday, May 12, 2014

Settings in Dan Brown's books

I think that the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was an interesting book to read, and I think that the amount of facts and actual things help make his books more enjoyable.

In this book, it takes place in France, mainly the Paris area, and even expands into northern England. In Angels and Demons, it takes place in France (once again, at the begining of the book) and ends up in Italy, in Rome. In Digital Fortress, it takes place in Washington DC, along with The Lost Symbol. Deception Point even takes the setting to the Arctic.

I think that Dan Brown is an enjoyable writer because of what he writes about, and he uses a lot of diverse settings in his books (CERN, Capital Building, Vatican City, New York City, Atlantic Ocean, etc...) and he uses them, and history and cultures around those areas, and is able to use them to create amazing characters and to help make the book to be great.

Monday, May 5, 2014

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

I have currently finished reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. It is about the when the curator of the Louvre museum is mysteriously killed inside the museum by an unknown assassin, and a clue has been left by his body, that he wrote in his final moments, leading to a secret that he wants to be kept and not forgotten, as he is the only one who knows it.

Thus leads to Robert Langdon being called in to help desypher what the curator had left, and he is informed by a cryptologist that Robert himself is being blamed for the murder, thus leaving Robert franticly running through Paris with the cryptographer, Spohie Neveu, trying to figure out what the curator wanted to keep a secret so that no one would go looking for it.

I would recomend reading this if you like books that are fictional, but have a lot of facts and historical things. This book is full of them, and it is a very good read; and I think that if you wanted to read it, or see the movie based on it, that you should.