| Booktalk
#1
Robert Langdon has never even
met the curator of the famous Louvre. Yes, he had an appointment
with him for that night but he can't explain why such a cryptic message
has been left. Why would he be a suspect in the grizzly murder?
When Sophie Neveu arrives, the mystery gets much more complicated.
She is a master code breaker but this is more than she can handle.
Together, Langdon and Neveu go in search of some answers. Can they
also be on the trail of the elusive Holy Grail?
Booktalk #2
Robert Langdon, the famed Harvard
symbologist, is summoned by the police to the Louvre in the middle of the
night. Langdon had a meeting scheduled with the curator the following day.
Unfortunately, the elderly curator has been mysteriously murdered at the
foot of the Mona Lisa. This victim was a high-ranking member of the clandestine
society called the Priory of Sion, whose secret members included Sir Isaac
Newton, Botticelli, and Da Vinci.
Clues left at the scene, compel
Langdon to join forces with the curator's granddaughter, Sophie Neveu,
a criminologist with the French police. Together the two attempt to follow
the clues across Europe to solve the murder mystery. They are pulled into
more intricate mysteries involving discoveries of ancient religious secrets:
from the mystery behind the Last Supper to the secrets of the Holy Grail.
Considered suspects in the
curator's murder, Langdon and Neveu are pursued by the police as well as
a faceless opponent. Their unknown opponent wants to learn more of the
secrets Langdon and Neveu have unearthed. .... but, is their opponent intent
on finding the answer to the Priory of Sion or in hiding that secret forever???
The Da Vinci Code is a fast-paced,
thought-provoking murder mystery sure to keep you unwilling to put the
book down.
Cindy Fiegenbaum for The
Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
Booktalk #3
In
the highly secure Grand Gallery of the Louvre, a collection of the world's
most famous paintings smiled down at the dead body of the curator, Jacques
Sauniere. The pallid corpse lay on the parquet floor arranged in a most
bizarre fashion - completely naked, the body was perfectly aligned with
the long axis of the room, arms and legs sprawled outward in a wide spread
eagle, like those of a child making a snow angel. In the throws of death,
the curator had used his own blood to draw the five-star pentacle on his
flesh: the pre-Christian symbol for the sacred feminine, the divine goddess.
Thus is set in motion a thrilling tale of a quest… and a chase.
The quest is about the Holy Grail, and the people who are after it –
a Harvard professor of symbology, an attractive French cop and brilliant
cryptologist (who also happens to be Sauniere's granddaughter), and a British
knight. They, in turn, are being chased across Europe by the French police,
Interpol, and an albino monk-assassin whose expenses are being covered
by the Vatican. At stake is the mystery behind da Vinci's Last Supper,
the future of the Catholic church, and a revelation so provocative that
it could change the basic assumptions upon which the Christian church is
built. (From Booktalking Colorado, http://booktalkingcolorado.ppld.org)
Colorado
Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 2006-2007
Booktalks #4
Robert
Langdon, the famed Harvard symbologist, is summoned by the police to the
Louvre in the middle of the night. Langdon had a meeting scheduled with
the curator the following day. Unfortunately, the elderly curator has been
mysteriously murdered at the foot of the Mona Lisa. This victim was a high-ranking
member of the clandestine society called the Priory of Sion, whose secret
members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, and Da Vinci. Clues left
at the scene, compel Langdon to join forces with the curator's granddaughter,
Sophie Neveu, a criminologist with the French police. Together the two
attempt to follow the clues across Europe to solve the murder mystery.
They are pulled into more intricate mysteries involving discoveries of
ancient religious secrets: from the mystery behind the Last Supper to the
secrets of the Holy Grail. Considered suspects in the curator's murder,
Langdon and Neveu are pursued by the police as well as a faceless opponent.
Their unknown opponent wants to learn more of the secrets Langdon and Neveu
have unearthed. .... but, is their opponent intent on finding the answer
to the Priory of Sion or in hiding that secret forever??? (From Booktalking
Colorado, http://booktalkingcolorado.ppld.org)
Colorado
Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 2006-2007 |
