Outside Reading - Week 4, Post B

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

I finished this book over the past few days, and WOW, it truly lives up to the expectations that people placed on it. It was one of the most well written novels I have ever read. I really liked how the plot seamlessly flowed along, and how it all fit together so perfectly in the end. With each new chapter there was a turn of events, which made the plot seem more confusing but even more exciting as well. Thinking back on all of the questions that I had, all of them were answered. When they made no sense earlier, they are very obvious now. The only thing I didn't like was how it was written from multiple perspectives. It was similar to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in that the narrator switched constantly, but in ELIC the change was very confusing, but in The Da Vinci Code the transitions were very clear and smooth. It is also similar to the movie Vantage Point because the event is witnessed from the "vantage points" of nine different people. In the movie, the transitions are confusing, but as I said earlier, they aren't in The DaVinci Code. However, I didn't like these changes in the novel because the view would switch during such a climactic part of the story, I wanted to know what would happen next and be in on the action, not listening to someone else's conversations. I suppose it was all a technique to create suspense, and it worked because I was on the edge the entire time I was reading, and i couldn't put it down.