The Atlantis Code

A good book to read specially if you want to learn about historical events and religious practices

Good

An excellent Dr Lourds adventure trying to uncover the secrets of Atlantis ahead of a murderous Cardinal. Another reviewer has pointed out some geographical confusion regarding Senegal.There are other errors p.34 "this writing should be in one of the Altaic languages.Turkic,Mongolic or Tungusic." "it's a family of languages that encompassed this area. It's where all language here(the Middle East sprang from. The language group stretches from Central Asia to Japan a thousand miles north and has absolutely no links to ancient Egypt,Anatolia,Iran or Mesopotamia.P.55 has the evil Cardinal and this henchman(both Italians)talking in Rome. "A cymbal.""A symbol of what?" The Italian words cimbalo and simbolo are not so easily confused as in English.P.227 "amusing to note how many land-locked South American countries hosted veritable navies"There are only two such countries in the Americas, Bolivia and Paraguay to choose from.Travelling in Yorubaland, Nigeria, p.385 "pointing out spider monkeys".P386 "spider monkeys leaped from treetop to treetop" and "the driver had to serve to avoid hitting a forest elephant."These encounters are even more remarkable than discovering Atlantis, as spider monkeys are native to the Americas and the last Nigerian elephant died in 2005,hundreds of miles away to the east.P.106"Russia,even these days,wasn't the hottest of destinations,the kind that had flights leaving every thirty minutes". I think this overstates the problem of travelling from Egypt to Moscow, which I believe has good connections. Lourds travels via London. Istanbul,Athens, Cyprus or Israel should have been quicker.Also on the flight p.114 "Lourds sipped the water" What water?The book also paints the Yoruba as being the equivalent of the Phoenicians. Their society did not coalesce until c1000 C.E and there is no evidence that they were ever seafarers.

I got this book to give as a gift, the listing is VERY deceiving, I thought I was getting a new copy. And it is used. I looked back at listing and in very small print at one spot it is "open box, very good" I would NOT say this book is in very good condition. There is a huge rip on the front cover protector. I'm so disappointed but don't want to return because it's a birthday gift

I just finished this book and have decided Charles Brokaw will be added to the authors I will read regularly. The story is very well written and keeps you wondering how it is all going to finish. I did feel that there are two areas that the author could have improved. Professor Lourds is a flawed man but the character development was a bit shallow and the author could have added more dimensions to him. The ending, while unique in many ways, was also a bit expected with the flooding. It became anticlimactic. Other than that it kept me turning the pages on my Kindle and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would recommend this to anyone.