Not going to post a review of the book yet but I solved the second puzzle riddles @ dan brown's website so I'll post those for my mates so they can check their answers against mine.
- the mona lisa
- paris (louvre museum)
- the priory of sion (although they SHOULD accept priori de sion aswell ;-)
- kryptos (friend of mine told me about this. it's a sculpture in the garden of the CIA headquarters in langley, virginia)
- WW (look at the previous link)
- is there no help for the widows son (masonic phrase)
- masons (obviously enough)
- e pluribus unum which means "out of many, one" and is located on the great seal of the US(stumped me for a while until I remembered some of the masonic symbols on the dollar bill, the founding fathers could have formed their own lodge :-D)
- click her right eye (your left) as droit means right in french
So there you go treasure hunters. Gee, I loved that book. One of the most exciting and entertaining reads in a long time. Coincidentally (if you believe in such things) I read a book called The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio just before I read the Da Vinci Code. The result of all this was that I was well primed for the 1st few clues. Especially the crime scene sequence and the bank account number based on the fibonacci series. Still, great book.