The Da Vinci Code - My review.

While my stay at Mumbai i was gifted this book by Osscilator which we bough while wandering along the paths of VT, author of this book is Robert Brown . I had been hearing reviews about this earlier more for its controversies since the fulcurum of the plot evolved around Christianity. For the past one week i curbed all my entertainments and concentrated only on reading this book. I couldnt afford any other due to pecuniary reasons as this had been an Income Tax month. Though not an avid reader of English novels(just because they are written in English which had always been my weak point for ages)

The story goes like this. Robert Langdon is an expert Symbologist in US who is invited to paris by Jacques Sauniere an head of the Louvre Museum. By the time Robert reaches Paris, Jacques gets assasinated and unfortunately the visitor becomes the suspect. At the time of death Jacques hints about his murderer with a set of Symbols and clues, and how Robert decrypts them(along with Sophie Neveu an cryptologist in France) to identify Jacques murderer and the reasons for his murder is the rest of the story.

The good thing about this book is that it moves very fast and there are too many twists of tale added to it. GRE aspirants who are good in logical reasoning will think that the methods utilzed in decryption are too childish. There are too much of French language involved(not been a trouble for me as I've some half baked knowledge about French). All the characters involved have a defined role and form an active part(not like our hindi mega serials) in the story and none can be neglected or termed idle.

I would put this rating as 3 out 5 for this book. Not interested in reading it wait till Tom Hanks finishes his work on the movie based on this book. Go ahead and watch it on the big screen.