Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code

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Anyone read this little chestnut?
Absolutely great, take it as fact, fiction or whatever, but in true Dan Brown fashion he claims it all to be true, researched to death and accurate with all the zest of an author who truly cares what people think of him personally.
IMO, the theories about the nature of the Grail made as much sense as any other I've read, and I really dug the book except for his dumbassed style of writing.
He dumbs everything down and over-explains everything to death, and this is fairly frustrating as I'm not the most patient reader in the universe. For example - a Harvard trained professional top notch super human codebreaker becoming stumped by what 'orb' could be missing from Isaac Newtons grave. Damn, I miss what's in front of me all the time, and I got that before codeboy extrordinairre, and it was all because of Brown's lame assed efforts at creating suspense and then a surprise. He writes like he's talking to retards, and this is my only gripe.
I'm interested to see what others think tho!

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BullshitThis message has been edited by Guidosoft, 03-15-2005 10:52 PM

what exactly do you find so objectionable about that post? a little more clarification would be nice.I think he has it fairly spot and the only thing you could possibly take umbrage with is but as this proposed grail nature is no more or less credible than the one put forward by the bible or the many other grail myths then reacting so strong is a little off (IMHO) especially as it was voiced as a personal thought rather than fact.

I just think its sad how people really believe it all to be fact when the book itself said its fiction bassed one real events (dont quote me word for word)

based on real claims people have made. personally, i'd heard all of them prior to the book (which i still have not read, nor do i intend to).the interesting bit, of course, is that the priori of scion stuff is a well known hoax in france. a group of political radicals essentially made up a fictitious history to give themselves support -- i wonder how the french readers reacted to that part of the book? over here it'd be like citing the alien invasion as reported by orson wells.

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The book was okay, but just. The solutions to the combinations were too obvious and the ending too contrived. but overall it was a fair yarn.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

The movie cuts make it harder to tell fact from fiction than the book, so.... if one does not already know now viewer view where.THE DA VINCI CODE | Sony Pictures EntertainmentEdited by Brad McFall, : movie url link

Haven't read the book, saw the movie.The movie was okay. I can't say I was disappointed since I wasn't really expecting much to begin with, but it was certainly below par compared to what I have come to expect from Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. I enjoyed National Treasure a great deal more.

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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin

apparently, they laughed at it in cannes.like i said above....Edited by arachnophilia, : for stupid repost of the same material

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The film is a perfectly fine adaptation of the book. Sure it’s a little talky. But had Ron chopped out all the talking ( or most of it) to compact the film everyone would be saying he had not been honest to the film and had simply made and action flick (which is a genre at this time MI:3 owns) Simply put this film was never going to get much if any praise. People were expecting too much from an OK but controversial book. There were and are many who dislike this movie on simple reputation.It’s not MI:3 it’s not Shaw-shank, it’s not metropolis, its not an all time great, but here is the kicker. Then the movie was over there was a silence in the auditorium. A careful thoughtful silence. People were thinking. A reaction I’ve only seen at the end of provoking documentaries ( and the nuclear attack scene in Terminator 2)In the end the movie was all about faith, not destroying it. About believing for the right reasons not the wrong ones. About finding the truth and not about believing what you are told.