On The Da Vinci Code
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Following an article about the Blue Beam Project on a news site
and the response "You must have read too much Dan Brown" to a comment
there, I recalled that I had been having the book "the Da Vinci Code"
at home for some years, but until that anonymous response I never touched it.
The protagonist of the book is Robert Langdon, an American Symbologist, who 
gets an urgent call to the Louvre after the killing of the curator,
Jacques Saunière, by the Opus Dei monk Silas. Jacques Saunière was a faux
grand master of the Priory of Sion, and Sophie, his graddaughter, doesn't
know it. Jacques Saunière is a descendant of Pierre Plantard who never was
a heir of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. 
After Sophie Neveu, the curator's granddaughter and a cryptologist for
the police, reveals thet Langdon is the main suspect, she helps him to
escape from the Louvre. On their escape they solve riddles, two of them
are in Cryptexes they find. Solving them is sush a tiring passage in the
book, that I want Colonel No-nosense from some Monty Python sketches to
come and demand that Dan Brown stops writing the book because it's becoming
silly.