In light of recent events surrounding The Da Vinci Code, I can’t resist adding in my thoughts to the popular book.

For a pulp fiction, the book is a real page-turner. Brown keeps it interesting enough that you can’t put down the book until you learn more - about the Priory of Sion, the Opus Dei and the Grail historians. The theories explored by the book, of course, isn’t new. Go to the New Age/ Popular Science/Ufology section of any decent bookstore and you’ll find numerous books expounding on this very idea, backed up by archaelogical and historical posits. Although I haven’t had a chance to read it, I’m sure The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail suggests rather similar ideas.
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