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Title: Cracking Da Vinci's Code: You've Read the Book, Now Hear the Truth by James L. Garlow, Peter Jones ISBN: 1-59355-996-8 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.3 (53 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This book's argument can be summed up in a few easy premises: (1) Dan Brown is trying to pass off Gnosticism as real Christianity; (2) Gnosticism is bad, very bad; (3) Dan Brown is therefore very bad, mostly because he's one very effective part of a Gnostic revival that would threaten to undo the Christian Church in a post-modern world; (4) Don't fall prey to the deception -- accept Jesus and become a real Christian.

The only thing even nearly original about this book is the insertion of a few details (and not even the most interesting ones) from The Da Vinci Code -- the rest is old hat, overly recycled arguments against anything that contradicts a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. They don't even begin to deal with the serious textual and historical issues raised by the Nag Hammadi texts, and they set up lots of straw men to knock down.

In the end, the book will only convince the already-convinced, and with its preachy style will likely alienate the people the authors most would like, I assume, to reach. I expected more out of authors with these academic credentials.

If you want a Christian book that handles the issues far more effectively, try Darrell Bock's Breaking the Da Vinci Code. Bock's book could have been more comprehensive, but addresses the questions in a vastly more intelligent manner that respects the reader. Garlow and Jones' effort falls way short of this.

Rating: 5
Summary: Nevermind the man behind the curtain
Comment: oh bother, next they'll be saying the easter bunny, tooth fairy and santa clause are fictional characters too.

Make-Believe-Land is so much more

a) comfortable
b) intellectually non-challenging
c) ideologically compatible
d) feel good
e) all of the above

Rating: 1
Summary: Christian attempt at damage control
Comment: Title says it all.

If the bible-thumpers have nothing to hide, why are they having a conniption over The Da Vinci Code?

Makes you wonder....

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