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Just OK Robert Langdon a symbologist and Sophie Neveu a Cryptologist are paired together to solve the mysterious murder of a very respected Louvre Curator. Before dying of a bullet in his stomach, he has time to leave clues around the museum so that a secret he is the last living person to know about would not be lost forever. The 2 main characters are racing against time, trying to translate anagrams and solve riddles before both the police and some obscure religious group get their hands on them and what they are about to discover. The book is fast paced and written in a very simplistic style which makes all the weird religious stories in the book easy to understand. THe book starts off pretty well, it has quite a few suspensful moments which will make you keep turning pages. But as the story unfolds, the author seems to try and create too many twists, some of them way too far fetched. The ending is very anti-climatic and extremly disappointing. The characters remain very superficial throughout the story, they seem to have no feelings and you are left with the impression that you are reading about robots rather than human beings. None of the characters are interesting, i did not get to care about any of them and what would become of them. I've heard Steven Spielberg is going to direct the movie with Tom Hanks staring as Robert Langdon. I'll be very surprised to see how Hanks can portrait such a dull and boring character. [...]The underlying theme of the quest is absurd and i can understand that it would offend christians, mostly catholics. Yet this is fiction, it's supposed to be entertaining and not rewrite history. So if you are a devouted catholic who is very touchy on the subject of religion, this book is definitly not for you. It seems that everyone is reading this book these days and i had high expectations. It's just all hype, it's really just OK. Based on the idea of the story, the author could have done a much better job had he thought more about the ending and given a lot more depth to his characters.