what was the reason for DaVinci code's success

Maybe because "The Da Vinci Code" made all Christians question their age-old belief. the Da Vinci code had been researched well, i think. people who read the DaVinci code kept asking questions regarding the doctrines of all Christian Denominations, most especially the Catholic Church. i always tell my friends and anyone who wants to read it that the Da Vinci Code is not for the fainted heart. if you're not sure of your faith, don't read the book. if you ever read the book, don't take it seriously. I mean, its FICTION! as for Angels and Demons, its mainly technological advances and everyone knows that technology has been advancing rapidly. it doesn't have that much impact. eventhough, both books have common villain, the Catholic Church.

This is a great one of browns, suspense and mistery. I like all his collections and its highly fictious.

I have read the Dan Browns book The Da Vinci Code and found it rather lacking. I found it to be a lot like the crime novels like the dime mystery novels of the 50s. And as far as his so called facts they are all bogus as you would find by doing a search on the net. Hec really didn't do a very good search on them. Heres a place to start. http://www.aquinasonline.com/da-vinci/index.htm

I completely agree with you on angels and demons the end was horrible. But as far as success of da vinci is considered . The story was certainly intriguing. I am not a christian so no problems at that front. Secondly it was contraversy i suppose. You know people have a sense that oh lets check out whats that wrong or contraversial . This them increases exponentially upto certain level . By then book's hit but at times i do feel that there might be some truth(sometimes one of many probablities) along with exceptional story, atleast thats why it was recommended by many

I personally think that the best book is Angels & Demons. But DVC is based on true evidences and one cannot say that it is not true when you read. Also Dan Brown is capable of maintaining excitement from the first page to the last page of the book. I think it was successful because it was sort of controversial.

I think it was because of the title 'Da vinci Code' as alot of people are intrigued by Da Vinci. Also because there was such a large amount of publicity surrounding the book. It was banned in some countries and there were protests about it and members of the vatican asked people not to read it. Al of this lead to alot of hype and those people who hadn't read it and are not usuall into this type of book felt they needed to read it to see what everyone was talking about. It also deals with the fact that Jesus might have been married and left a royal blood line, there might be a descendant of Jesus walking around somewhere. I know most of the book is based on facts that people could have read in other books that have been around for a while but this book linked it all up and even claimed some of it was actual fact. It made sense to some and made others angry but it got them all talking about the book and therefor got people reading it.