I'm supposing most of America has read it by now, myself having read it just Thanksgiving last year, and I have to say:

It disappointed me. I sort of wanted a little more atmosphere out of the book. Granted, it was an OK book, but, in my humble opinion, I think I could take a whack at rewriting it (Don't kill me, fans)

I would have made the entire story about the entire person of Jesus being faked, by Leonardo Da Vinci. Instead of a troubled albino as the main villain, I would have a secret organization that lives under the protection of the Vatican to keep the secret. Someone would have left clues to the mystery throughout all of Europe, in the Churches and religious sites.

As for the organization itself, it would be a monastic cult, cold and ruthless, their normal garb being the hooded cloak and boots that Silas wore, though. It might be an interesting twist to have them kill with swords, too, instead of guns, if they were very skilled at using them.

Anyway, the Knights Templar and Mary Magdalene would be left out of the story, and the whole book would take up an ancient, mysterious, candlelit, secret-passage under a Church theme. Not to say a "Gothic" theme, per se, but more a very mysterious candlelight discovery, in old, forgotten libraries under churches and through the marble halls of The Vatican, with a very dark religious undertone.

If you listen to the soundtrack for the movie, you'll find it fits the description like a glove.


Your thoughts on the book, what you would change and what you think of mine?