Mona Lisa, Men Have Named You

The DaVinci Code has been read. Finished. Done.

It's a good read, and as with Dan Brown's previous Robert Langdon book, Angels & Demons the ending is...OK. You just want a little more. Perhaps you just want the story to continue. You want more background, more secrets to be revealed and more connections to be made.

Again, it's a great tale of moving through a city...well, in this case, cities. Since I've been in Paris, once, for a day, I knew of some of the places he was writing about, and was able to visualize some of the spots they were running to. Much different from Rome in the previous book. It was still interesting to see how he would do his homework bringing these real places into the story.

I love Brown's taking apart of sybology and looking for meaning in what these glyphs are trying to tell us. I guess it appeals to the writer/reader in me. I guess there's always an interest in symbology and etomology, and he's a writer who plays on these themes and builds plots around those interests.

If there's anything Dan Brown does, he's able to take what you see, everyday ordinary things, and show you the historical connections and contextual past and bring that alive in an interesting way. It's a fascinating way to do it. The actual plot is more of a device to bring a history lesson, and a viewpoint, to life, and it makes you think. With DaVinci, Dan Brown has popularized a alternative history, and it will be interesting to see how much more popular that Will be when the movie comes out.

Of course, I can't see Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon.

Well. I enjoyed it. This was the book I gave to Chris for Christmas, so I have to return it. Now I need a new book. Suggestions please?

I also just saw the movie American Beauty...that was, odd.

Now I think I have to go to work for a while. Boo.

BTW, Happy Birthday Cameron (handlebear)!