Spring break is coming to a close and I wanted to review something during that time. Just so I don't feel like I did nothing during the whole week off from school. And I basically did nothing all throughout the week. Kind of. Just a lot of reading and writing and a lot less substantial stuff that will actually be seen.
My mother was bothering me to watch the movie adaption of this book. She said it's really good and I said I'd watch it if I ever came across in on television or in a store.
In October, during an event at my brother's school, I decided to check out a used book sale that they were having. There was nothing I recognized. Mostly there were adult books and I'm not really interested in that kind of stuff. I am, but adult romance is different from young adult romance and adult action is different from young adult action. Then I remembered this title and decided to get it because I was recommended it.
So, let's just say that stuff happened and I got really busy and I wasn't able to read this book until about two weeks ago when I started it. And I still have not seen the movie, so if it's good, please tell me.
The cover-
My thoughts-
The whole book was extremely interesting. I slowed down a little bit halfway through because I wanted to process what was going on before I got to the next part. This book tells religion the way it's really supposed to be told and makes light of the little details that the Church always told us to overlook.
But first, let me make one thing clear. I am not of the Christian faith, so I had little to no knowledge of the things that Langdon was describing. They were still interesting in themselves. The hidden symbolism inside each of the paintings we know made me see them in an altogether different way. In fact, I think if I go to Paris now, I'll see things a whole lot differently than I did two years ago.
And also there's the whole matter of the Holy Grail. This is probably the driving force of the book. Sophie and Langdon are in a race with Silas (their enemy they meet later on in the book when he tries to kill them, but they end up tying and gagging him up) and his "Teacher" to get to the Grail and unlock its true power.
I just wonder how long it took to write this book. And how much research it must have taken in order to get all the facts right. Because if there's even one mistake, the Church has a valid reason to challenge him. But I'm no expert on this, so it was all new information to me. I took in everything with wide eyes,
It also made me see the ways that people will go so far as to torture themselves to please God. Even the pain that Silas always felt wearing is cilice (discipline) belt was too much for me. He once described that once his wounds from the barbs had healed, the belt always made his skin feel raw. Any shift in movement sent blood dripping down his legs. I personally am very squeamish when it comes to torture, pain or even blood in general, so I was really bothered by this.
Really, this book exposes the truth about Christianity to the world through a very interesting fictional adventure. It opened my eyes to the things around me and how the Church has tried to erase their mistakes, but has never been quite able to get rid of the evidence completely.
((I'm off to read a book I need to finish for a school project, but I may write a review on it sometime soon. And I've got Inferno, another of Langdon's adventures now in Florence, Italy. I absolutely can't wait to read it! Since the next two weeks are exam weeks, there won't be much schoolwork to take care of and I can read when I get home every day! I suddenly feel like I am the only person who gets excited for exam weeks. Surely the exams are long and boring, but still, our classes get shortened to twenty minutes and the day seems to go by much faster than usual.))
My mother was bothering me to watch the movie adaption of this book. She said it's really good and I said I'd watch it if I ever came across in on television or in a store.
In October, during an event at my brother's school, I decided to check out a used book sale that they were having. There was nothing I recognized. Mostly there were adult books and I'm not really interested in that kind of stuff. I am, but adult romance is different from young adult romance and adult action is different from young adult action. Then I remembered this title and decided to get it because I was recommended it.
So, let's just say that stuff happened and I got really busy and I wasn't able to read this book until about two weeks ago when I started it. And I still have not seen the movie, so if it's good, please tell me.
The cover-
When Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris for a lecture, he is woken up and taken to the Louvre museum one night. His escort says nothing about what's going on and he's forced to wonder why he's being taken there.
Langdon sees the body of the murdered Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere and realizes that he is being interrogated as a prime suspect for the murder. Surely he was going to meet with Sauniere to discuss his upcoming novel about the history of pagan worship and the sacred feminine, but never kill him. However, in a note drawn in invisible ink, Sauniere has written "P.S. Find Robert Langdon" which the authorities are interpreting as a clue that this is the murderer.
Langdon is innocent, but no one wants to believe it. That is, until the brilliant cryptographer Sophie comes in with a possible explanation for this. She helps Langdon break out of the thick security of the Louvre and get on the run to find the clues that will help them find out who murdered Sauniere.
After a few stops which involve using the note to break into a Swiss bank and eventually ending up at the doorstep of a good friend of Langdon's, Robert and Sophie realize that they are not just looking for the murderer, but for the one thing that the Church has hidden from the whole world for centuries. And they have to beat a deranged monk and his "Teacher" to the punchline or else the whole world will be left in chaos.
The whole book was extremely interesting. I slowed down a little bit halfway through because I wanted to process what was going on before I got to the next part. This book tells religion the way it's really supposed to be told and makes light of the little details that the Church always told us to overlook.
But first, let me make one thing clear. I am not of the Christian faith, so I had little to no knowledge of the things that Langdon was describing. They were still interesting in themselves. The hidden symbolism inside each of the paintings we know made me see them in an altogether different way. In fact, I think if I go to Paris now, I'll see things a whole lot differently than I did two years ago.
And also there's the whole matter of the Holy Grail. This is probably the driving force of the book. Sophie and Langdon are in a race with Silas (their enemy they meet later on in the book when he tries to kill them, but they end up tying and gagging him up) and his "Teacher" to get to the Grail and unlock its true power.
I just wonder how long it took to write this book. And how much research it must have taken in order to get all the facts right. Because if there's even one mistake, the Church has a valid reason to challenge him. But I'm no expert on this, so it was all new information to me. I took in everything with wide eyes,
It also made me see the ways that people will go so far as to torture themselves to please God. Even the pain that Silas always felt wearing is cilice (discipline) belt was too much for me. He once described that once his wounds from the barbs had healed, the belt always made his skin feel raw. Any shift in movement sent blood dripping down his legs. I personally am very squeamish when it comes to torture, pain or even blood in general, so I was really bothered by this.
Really, this book exposes the truth about Christianity to the world through a very interesting fictional adventure. It opened my eyes to the things around me and how the Church has tried to erase their mistakes, but has never been quite able to get rid of the evidence completely.
((I'm off to read a book I need to finish for a school project, but I may write a review on it sometime soon. And I've got Inferno, another of Langdon's adventures now in Florence, Italy. I absolutely can't wait to read it! Since the next two weeks are exam weeks, there won't be much schoolwork to take care of and I can read when I get home every day! I suddenly feel like I am the only person who gets excited for exam weeks. Surely the exams are long and boring, but still, our classes get shortened to twenty minutes and the day seems to go by much faster than usual.))
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