Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code

                                      Voltage
When Robert Langodon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard University and a visit to Paris, brought in the middle of the night by the French security police, he is suddenly thrown into the wettest dream he could ever imagine. Louvre museum curator Jacques Saunière, also grand master of the secret society the Priory of Sion, which according to legend watches the truth about the Holy Grail, has been murdered.
The prelude to "The Da Vinci Code" is a word set for a time reading. It has it all, Christian mysticism, secret societies and cults, macho police officers, intellectual brilliance cast a tie bearing a professor and a female kodknäckare and so has the unexpected twists and turns. A thriller or a novel voltage that will not break the hoes. I suspect that Dan Brown has been doing some research before the writing of this novel."Da Vinci Code" is not just about the assassination of a senior person in the French cultural elite, but it also takes a journey through art and symbols worldwide, and provides answers to long unanswered questions ...
... Why the smile on the Mona Lisa ... where?
Unaware of the French police's intentions and suspicions are Langdon to the Louvre where the strange murder took place. Saunière is dead, naked and stretched in the Grand Galerie. He is enclosed in a circle of blood, like da Vinci's The Vitruvian Man ".Alongside the body is Saunière's last words: a numeric code and a mysterious text, and a pentagram. Langdon learns that he has a code in front of them that could lead to history's best kept secrets: The Priory of Sion monitors. Soon he was using the police kryptolog Sophie Neveu who know the police's suspicions, and who carry unsuspected kunkskaper.
"Da Vinci Code" is entertaining, and I read the stretch. But it is also a välförpackad product that can not penetrate deeper than the subject to keep the excitement going.Curiosity brought when Langdon presents alternative interpretations of the symbolism in da Vinci's art that can be traced to the truth about the Grail. But the reflection is interrupted and the document is rushing forward. The book will fit in everyone's eyes.And it is also the case with the characters who sometimes feels like a mishmash of Indiana Jones and the X-Files
Fiction haphazardly mixed with academic research, and the novel are based in part on the truths about the somewhat enigmatic companion those featured. And I suspect that's where the success of the "da Vinci Code" had to be found. I can only agree with: the mixture makes the book.

Jaroslav Rudis: Sky during Berlin

Post Punk and ghosts in the Berlin underground
Startups Aspect publisher specializing in contemporary Czech literature. Among the publisher's first three, mutually quite different novels are Jaroslav rudis sky over Berlin. It stands out among other things, by the by no means set in the Czech Republic.
Instead, the novel's protagonist, a young man named Petr Bem, suddenly broken away from Prague, for reasons shrouded in mystery. He settles down in Berlin, starting a band and eventually develops a strong fascination with Berlin's underground rail services.
Ideally, he sits on the board staff ordinary pubs and listening to stories of living and dead who populate the underground's dramatic history, from suicides by jumping in front of trains at stations shut down and abandoned in the Wall divided Berlin.
In many ways, the subway and Berlin novel's heart, maybe even its real protagonist. The city, trains and all the living and dead who populate the Berlin underground too Bem a presence in many ways come closer to him than the next, he left behind at home in the Czech Republic.
In an equally significant as unobtrusive means are also Eastern and Central European history constantly in rudis novel. The actual subway were frozen as said by the division of East and West Berlin - at some stations there was just dust, guards and weapons. With new girlfriend change Bem memories of having grown up around the division of. Her mother is acting self-appointed historian of Eastside proud public transport, while the father keeps coming to jump FREQUENCY glowing eyes who harass drivers who unwittingly become their suicide instruments.
Heaven in Berlin is at once something of a ghost story and a depiction of everyday life in a city so burdened by history that the future seems almost unreal. There is also a charming story about the little band U-Bahn, the rock star dreams, shabby concert trials and awkward kid friendly.
For Bem start yet so small metro kill not only shape but also booking concerts with his post-punk band, and maybe Berlin is not his final destination? When everyday life gets too complicated they seem serene gray figures with glowing eyes to promise otherwise.Perhaps the most frightening still there to stay where you are and put up with himself and the people you have around you?

Book of the day: Stephen King Full dark, No stars

Ah, Stephen King, horror author who (said it) settled down in his old age and tried to be a bit more "real" writers do not need monsters and ghosts, to tell a story. And yes, of the four short novels / long stories in his latest book is actually the only one in which the supernatural plays a major role (even if the narrators of the others might not agree). But that does not mean that this is the good-natured bearded King, who writes about baseball; Full Dark, No Stars pours him at full speed, just that the focus this time is almost entirely on human evil - or rather lack of goodness, which may well pop the same level. Evil triumphs where good men do nothing, and so on.
It is a violent, dark collection of stories he got out of here. It is only in the story based on supernatural themes - "Fair Extension", a really accurate satire on the old sell-your-soul-to-devil-act - as he unleashes the humor, and even then it is to serve a rather bitter moral, what is the devil in human souls when man-made religious fanaticism, war as entertainment and celebrity worship on your own? Hornper just want the cash now. The rest is (with varying degrees of success) even depressing, realistic, assault, rape, murder.
King writing as Richard Bachman is not here, violence is not just brutality for brutality's sake. He has a point to make, as he attacks from across all four stories, and he does it about as sensitively as King can do, how violence is allowed to govern because we choose to look away, spreading like ripples on the water until it infects everything. The problem is not that man has no soul, that we are evil, it's just that the more we choose not to see, the more we help to talk away, the harder it is to put our foot down and say no. If we do, we ought to acknowledge our own guilt in what happened. It is perhaps the greatest horror item that remains in the community: that just that conscience which is expected to do us good perhaps making it easier to ignore problems once we started.
The results vary, as I said. King is inspired, and then it will never completely unsuccessful, and after giant discharge Under The Dome feels as if he enjoys writing short, hard-hitting stories again. "1922" is perhaps the most successful story here, with a blend of Steinbeck and Poe, who did not seem less relevant now in the era of new poverty. "Big Driver", on the other hand, trying to pick apart the classic rape-revenge story and manages to really just be another one I Spit On Your Grave-variant with glued on 2000-century morality, as if the King thinks it's a homework about attitudes to rape.But on the whole it is an absolutely acceptable day at work for old Stevie.

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