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Dan Brown's Controversy: The Da Vinci Code

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Dan Brown! The first word that will come to any person’s mind living in the 2010s after hearing this particular name without any doubt is The Da Vinci Code. The name itself exuberates mystery, religion and of course, controversy. The position and the following that Brown has gathered over the years can only be belittled by the Harry Potter series’ author J.K. Rowling.
Dan Brown has written a total of 6 novels, Digital Fortress and Deception Point being the early works and Angels and Demons, The Lost Symbol and Inferno being the post-stardom ones. The one not yet named is the one that started it all, the one that made Brown the phenomenon that this paper is concerned with. Even in his wildest dreams Dan Brown would have never imagined that The Da Vinci Code would become what it has. At 200million books sold, he is one of the highest selling authors of all time.

In 2005, Brown was named one of the Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo Da Vinci, early Christian history; opening tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing …show more content…

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