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Title: Check your common sense at the door, and hang on
Review: The book to which The Da Vinci Code is the sequel. (Published before DVC, so not technically a prequel, if "prequel" were a technical term.) Almost laughable in terms of character, plausibility, and dialogue (the last line especially); almost admirable in terms of how to craft 700 pages of pure page-turning suspense - "almost" because it gets so obvious and heavy-handed.If you hated DVC, you'll hate this one too; if you liked DVC, that's no guarantee you'll like this one - it's definitely the less polished of the two. But if you want to just turn off your common sense and get swept away in a mad chase and a silly puzzle (punctuated with some gruesome murders), then you'll probably love it.
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