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Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

I read The Da Vinci Code and I actually enjoyed it. It definately wasn't Eco, Dan Brown isn't a particularly good writer, but it was... ok.

Than I read "Angels and Deamons" (I didn't buy it, asked a friend of mine)... and... I found myself reading exactly the same story, with different names and cities. The other were really awful.

I didn't understand very well all the hype. The theory behind the book was not new to me and, as I said, he isn't a very good writer. As someone pointed out here, what I found really funny was people debating the theory as if it were true.

"A lot of the topics have a basis in reality" - really?? I would love to see scientific proof of the theory behind the book... the one about Mary Magdalene (can't remember her name in English, sorry)

Dharma
 
I loved the exploration of a religion that Brown gave us in the Da Vinci Code. The fact that he uprooted the "biggest secret" known to man is something that really made the book a fun one to read, regardless of his writing style.
 
Stewart said:
It was certainly full of something beginning with 's' but it wasn't suspense. I'm sure most readers were about ten chapters, if not more, ahead of Dan Brown and Langdon in what was going to happen. It was predictable nonsense. My favourite moment is the ridiculous jaw-dropping of Sophie Neveu when she learns that 'rose' is an anagram of 'Eros' yet she hardly batted an eyelid through all the pseudo-history Teabing had been spouting off with occasional interjections from cardboard Bob.
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I agree that The da Vinci Code was very predictable. Its definitely not a classic, not even Dan Brown's best work either.
 
jokewriter said:
I loved the exploration of a religion that Brown gave us in the Da Vinci Code. The fact that he uprooted the "biggest secret" known to man is something that really made the book a fun one to read, regardless of his writing style.
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LOL

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Wait, are you serious?
 
My image host deleted all the pics that were hosted so I needed to find a new host but now for some reason I can't go back and edit my post. So, here it is fixed.


sparkchaser said:
jokewriter said:
I loved the exploration of a religion that Brown gave us in the Da Vinci Code. The fact that he uprooted the "biggest secret" known to man is something that really made the book a fun one to read, regardless of his writing style.
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LOL

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Wait, are you serious?
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The Holy blood and the Holy Grail

I read the Da Vinci code shortly after it came out. I was interested in the subject at the time because I had written a book my self based loosely on the same theme. (Never got it published though). The codes in the book are all well planned out and described, using information that is out there if you are wiling to look. Almost everything he used though can be found in one book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. If you are interested in finding out where he got his ideas from this book is a must read. It’s also very enjoyable.
 
beer good said:
Well, he does call himself jokewriter. Have to say I've heard that particular joke before, though.

Also, I'm stealing that image.
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Do you want to hear a real joke?

A couple of years ago I was in Milan, in Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Leonardo's "Last Supper" is presented.

One is allowed there only in a guided tour, and the first sentence the guide says is: "Oh, please, listen first and then ask about the Dan Browns book!"

Clearly it does not help her and the first question is whether the youngest apostle in the picure is indeed a female. She mumbled something like:
"Oh, that one once again!" and went into explanations of portraits of young men in 15th century (VERY typically young men were portraid as gentle men, kind of female.)

Now the funny thing - as we go out from the exposition, at the "museum shop" they sell what? - Yeah, right guess! Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code!

Ever since it was published, it brings thousands of people to otherwise typically skipped by tourists Santa Maria delle Grazie (besides Last Supper there is not much to do there.)

Now tell me, oh you noble readers, - is it sad, or is it funny?
 
and the moto of the story is; if you live in a sad run down old town, write a multi-million selling book set in that town and it will become the next big tourist attraction.:)
 
chris302116 said:
and the moto of the story is; if you live in a sad run down old town, write a multi-million selling book set in that town and it will become the next big tourist attraction.:)
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Yeah, except that Dan Brown was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA (as you said - "sad run down old town") and wrote about a place in Milan where the "Last Supper" is exhibited :D

I mean, I do not believe that any book could help Exeter. Had he written about Exeter and not Milan, nobody would buy his books in a first place ;) I guess he knew it!
 
Not the best book I ever read, but not the worst either. It's generating a lot of discussion that's probably good. I just wish that well written books would generate this much interest.
 
hockeycop said:
Not the best book I ever read, but not the worst either. It's generating a lot of discussion that's probably good. I just wish that well written books would generate this much interest.
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I think many folks find it much easier to criticize something than to praise it. I know I often can point out flaws in a book that made me dislike it, but I have a hard time saying what makes me like a story.
 
Ronny said:
I think many folks find it much easier to criticize something than to praise it. I know I often can point out flaws in a book that made me dislike it, but I have a hard time saying what makes me like a story.
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Very true,The thing with the Da Vinci is not the book,but the noise it generate.For a while people were claiming it as a masterpiece,as something more than a book,there have been studies on it and so on.I guess now that the hubbub as quieten,it's just anothere thriller with a good idea,and mediocre writing.
 
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