There are very few people in America who haven't heard of Dan Brown's best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code. The "conspiracy thriller" is based on the premise that the Church (meaning the Catholic church) has surpressed critical, non-Biblical facts about the life of Christ.
If you claim that Jesus was married and had a child, you will get flack no matter how many copies you sell.
The Da Vinci Code is a well-spun mystery (I hesitate to call it a thriller) that makes big claims backed up with almost completely phony research. Even liberal reviewers gave Brown a hard time. When attacked by historians, Brown affirmed that every thing in the book was fact.
I've gotten different opinions from Christian who have read the book or seen the movie. Some feel threatened, but Brown's dull axe, if you will, is only a threat to those unwilling to research. The majority of Christians I've talked to enjoyed the story and left the theology.
The final word? Read if you are willing to do some extra research. If you decide to read or watch The DaVinci Code, add The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel and Cracking the DaVinci Code (or a similar book) to your home library.
Pros:
*Exciting plot
*Believable dialougue
*Decent prose style (those who bash Brown's style have had the luxury of never reading truly ban prose)
*Clues and riddles actually solveable by real people
Cons:
*Religious sexual content (the worst is at the end of chapter 74)
*Language (not horrible; probably one mild every other chapter)
*Mild alchohol
*Heavily unbiblical theology and world views
*Occasional clunky language (once again, it's not as bad as many negative reviews make out.
*Evil Albino trope is getting old
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