The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code- hmm.. I read this book a few weeks ago and well,I won't really comment on it like adults do but I did like certain parts of it. Highly controversial book as everyone knows. It states that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdelene and they had kids. Not that I understood much of the Gospels and stuff like that. But I did like the whole book in the sense that it was full of codes and anagrams and other interesting things. As a matter of fact everyone is looking forward to the movie coming out in 2007 starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu.
Langdon and Neveu are experts at cracking codes (it's their job after all- a symbologist and a cryptographer!). I like the fibonacci sequence a lot and the divine proportion 1.618(PHI). Frankly I love any book with any code to crack, I love reading Artemis Fowl because he's such a code cracker. Coming back to The Da Vinci Code, I like the way Langdon and Neveu crack the bank account number: cracking the scrambled Fibbonacci sequence and there onwards. How they get the cryptex and how they get the codes right- SOFIA being the first pass (I remember that easily 'coz it is the name of my school). I liked all the other anagrams there too, the only two I know which are proper anagrams are:
O, Draconian Devil!
O, Lame Saint!
After reading the book, keen to know more about the book and Leonardo's drawings I read the illustrated version and also watched the Bible Week shows on NatGeo- of course I didn't understand the whole of it so I bugged my brother by making him give me long explanations on the stuff written about "The Last Supper", "The Mona Lisa", "Madonna of the Rocks" and other pictures like that. I'd give the explanation but then I've gotta rush! More on The Code later!
Langdon and Neveu are experts at cracking codes (it's their job after all- a symbologist and a cryptographer!). I like the fibonacci sequence a lot and the divine proportion 1.618(PHI). Frankly I love any book with any code to crack, I love reading Artemis Fowl because he's such a code cracker. Coming back to The Da Vinci Code, I like the way Langdon and Neveu crack the bank account number: cracking the scrambled Fibbonacci sequence and there onwards. How they get the cryptex and how they get the codes right- SOFIA being the first pass (I remember that easily 'coz it is the name of my school). I liked all the other anagrams there too, the only two I know which are proper anagrams are:
O, Draconian Devil!
O, Lame Saint!
After reading the book, keen to know more about the book and Leonardo's drawings I read the illustrated version and also watched the Bible Week shows on NatGeo- of course I didn't understand the whole of it so I bugged my brother by making him give me long explanations on the stuff written about "The Last Supper", "The Mona Lisa", "Madonna of the Rocks" and other pictures like that. I'd give the explanation but then I've gotta rush! More on The Code later!
posted by Maya Krishnamurty at 12:59 PM
4 Comments:
You should read Simon singh's book on cracking the codes. Pretty interesting stuff there.
hey mayu!
Read Angels and Demons.... I liked it better than The Da Vinci Code! Angels and Demons is actually one of my favorite books!
I think the Da Vinci Code is much better than Angels and Demons. A&D was way too nuts. The Da Vinci code blended fact and fiction beautifully, something that A&D didn't do at all.
Hey Mayu!
I loved the DaVinci Code too but I felt that the author planned to eventually have a movie made of it anyway...almost seemed like he had Hollywood in sight the whole time!! :-)
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