author of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code is 40 today. According to The Writer’s Almanac:
The Da Vinci Code has gone through more than fifty printings, and there are now more than 7.5 million copies of it in print. Almost 100,000 copies are still being sold each week. The book has sparked a controversy in some religious circles, especially in the Catholic Church. The book argues that much of what we hold to be true about Christianity was actually decided at a single meeting of bishops at Nicea in modern-day Turkey, in the year 325. According to the book, it was at that meeting that church leaders decided they wanted to consolidate their power base and establish dogmas for all Christians to follow—and that was the beginning of the Catholic Church. The narrator says that up until that point not all Christians believed in a divine Christ and an infallible Scripture.
One of the advantages of age is loss of memory!
I read the DaVinci Code twice. I think I enjoyed the book more the second time.
Dan Brown has woven history and fiction in a very
believable way. It’s hard to decide which is which!