I have read "The Da Vinci Code" three times. The first reading was for pure enjoyment, the second reading was for critique, then noticing a number of obvious errors, or intentional clues, I read the entire text again- that time looking to see if there were additional obvious errors. Or were they errors? Beyond a reasonable doubt, the supposed errors are not errors but must be indeed clues given by Dan Brown for a real-life adventure quest to be undertaken by his individual readers. You see, the book, "The Da Vinci Code" offers a lot more to the reader than what is perceived by those not having a discerning eye.

I am convinced that if you can interpret the clues which are obvious errors in the text, you may be on your way to finding an unusual artifact or reward. Just what that artifact or reward might be is beyond my speculation.

The first clue that came to my attention were the letters "SOS" on page 155 (page one hundred fifty-five). You will note that there is no page listed as 155 in the "Da Vinci Code" text, although the book is 499 pages in length. For some obscure reason, where the number of the page should have appeared, page 155, there are instead the letters "SOS". I could understand if the page number error had a numerical value, was 154 or 156, or even 165, a possible error missed by one of the book´s finish editors, but, those are letters of the English alphabet, totally unrelated to numerical values. An editor would have to be fairly exhausted not to have noticed such an obvious inconsistency. That incredible misprint (or not a misprint) got me on a hot search for additional obvious errors, inconsistencies, or clues and that is why I read the entire Da Vinci Code text a third time. I am still not sure why the letters "SOS" were used in this instance and why page 155 was chosen to place this error. At this point I am going to refer to my further findings as clues, and not errors. I believe there is a message when all of the clues are assembled and interpreted in the correct order and manner. The next clue, or strange appearance of inconsistency, appears on page 60 of the text.

Incredibly, the Da Vinci Code's author´s name, DAN BROWN, has been stricken from the top of page 60 and replaced with "ANKH FENDILE"! How could that be? Is the replacement of numbers 155 with SOS and the replacement of Dan Brown´s name at the top of page 60 with with the name of Ankh Fendile any way related to one another? After the third reading of the book I have been pondering that question for several months. I do not recollect the name of Ankh Fendile appearing anywhere else in the book. Then on page 192 there is another incredible appearing discrepancy, or, another clue to what has now begun to develop as a paradoxical puzzle.

On page 192, there is yet another instance of author Dan Brown's name being replaced with another name, in this instance, "Reon Tigaldo". I do not remember a Reon Tigaldo mentioned anywhere else in the text. Does the appearance of these names relate to some kind of clue? I had a passing thought, what if the letters were replaced with numerical values? Might that provide some explanation to the strange curiosities that I discovered in "The Da Vinci Code"?

But there is more! Why in heaven´s name is the title of "The Da Vinci Code" changed, as seen at the top of page 141? On page 141 the phrase, "The Da Vinci Code" has been replaced by the words, "The La Sufrete Code".

This same occurance of book name replacement at the top of a page occurs yet again on page 95. On the top of page 95, "The Da Vinci Code" has been replaced with the wording "The De Lancs Code". After this discovery, I was sure the inconsistencies I found earlier and those I have commented on in the remainder of this writing were no mistake at all or a result of a fatigued editor. These apparent misprints are intentional.

These curious discrepancies do not end. Even on page 217 the wording at the top of page which normally would have been "The Da Vinci Code" has been curiously replaced by the wording, "The De Ysosy Code". Incredible!!!

The THREE STARS: Amazingly, page 322 has no page number. Instead, the three space values which should have contained the numbers 322 have been replaced by THREE STARS. How do the three stars relate to the rest of the strange paradoxical anomalies I have so far discovered? How will all of my previous discoveries relate to those I have yet to find? What other mysteries does "The Da Vinci Code" contain? And, another question, how many clues have I missed? On how many levels does Dan Brown express and present his clues? I believe I have only found some of the more obvious clues, those existing on a very obvious plane of visual observation.

On the last page of the book, Dan Brown writes, "She rests at last beneath the starry skies."

Dan Brown doesn't disappoint. To the reader with a discerning eye the legacy of the book and the real possibility of a real-life search for some hidden artifact or reward goes on. All one needs to do is decipher the clues presented in the book, several of which I have commented on above, and let the search begin.

The book is international in nature taking its actors on travels about the world. I would think no less of the apparent clues placed throughout Dan Brown's book, clues left for readers to discover and decipher. Then begins the search for an artifact, or something, to be found. But where might such an artifact be found (if one exists)- in Europe, in the Americas? To what ends of the earth might these clues lead the reader, and what is it that he or she may find there? The odyssey of unravelling the clues held by the book, once begun, will be life changing. Good luck and good hunting.