SilverHammer
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The book totally overshadows the movie. Especially since I read the book first I guess.
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Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
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I hate to troll but you might like this one. Its how Da Vinci Code ended. I read it a long time ago, and even though I might not remember the details of the ending and its not right or fair for me to use incorrect info... I just remember how I felt so cheated after slaving over that book.
Forgive me but we all are different readers and interpret our books differently, so I'll be as brief as possible in explaining my mentality as I reached the end.
Firstly he is no doubt an absolutely fantastic writer, more so because as I realized it was kind of a "spy" thriller. And even though I am not into the genre, he kept me reading with his excellent use of suspense. But that didn't last and my favorite story of the albino monk didn't mature into quite what I thought it would be, BUT I was still glued to see how it ended. I had never been so anxious to find out the ending of anything in my life!
Here's why the anticipation to the ending was so great that it caused me to read a story I would otherwise have given up on.
All the buzz about the book was that even tho it was a fiction, it came from research that suggested to the world that there may be proof christ was mortal. And the hero was after all searching for this Holy Grail.
Sooooo, now you know why I came towards the end twitching like a school girl as she went up to that old church where the hunt will end.
(this is the part my memory may fail me)
There was nothing there, or there was something there not the holy grail. Okay! I forgive you Dan Brown, you didn't owe me the holy grail. But now that the treasure hunt has stopped after all of this mystic chasing, give me something, a profound thought connecting this chase to life, some revelation, SOMETHING!!! He gave us no treasure and he tied up the story of the heroine in the book. I never not gave a crap about tying up the story of a main character in my life. Alll of that publicity and you gave us what happens to some fictional character that wasn't very intriguing in the first place. And when I seen that there were just a few paragraphs left, I felt cheated. I felt foolish to have trusted him to deliver! &$*%ing cheated. There has to be other people that felt cheated just like me
And on top of that, just as I was trying to fathom how he could come up so lame in an ending, he throws in a paragraph about how she sees the Virgin Mary lit up in the stars. The whole book was a chase to prove that there is no magic, no supernatural son of God, and this bastard ends it with something otherwordly?
If you don't agree with any of that or just wasn't as pissed, you must agree it looked like he rushed the ending. When we reach the climax/anticlimax, there is probably 3-4 pages. In that long book, his ending was less than 10 pages... Yeah... Anybody think I'm crazy?
Forgive me but we all are different readers and interpret our books differently, so I'll be as brief as possible in explaining my mentality as I reached the end.
Firstly he is no doubt an absolutely fantastic writer, more so because as I realized it was kind of a "spy" thriller. And even though I am not into the genre, he kept me reading with his excellent use of suspense. But that didn't last and my favorite story of the albino monk didn't mature into quite what I thought it would be, BUT I was still glued to see how it ended. I had never been so anxious to find out the ending of anything in my life!
Here's why the anticipation to the ending was so great that it caused me to read a story I would otherwise have given up on.
All the buzz about the book was that even tho it was a fiction, it came from research that suggested to the world that there may be proof christ was mortal. And the hero was after all searching for this Holy Grail.
Sooooo, now you know why I came towards the end twitching like a school girl as she went up to that old church where the hunt will end.
(this is the part my memory may fail me)
There was nothing there, or there was something there not the holy grail. Okay! I forgive you Dan Brown, you didn't owe me the holy grail. But now that the treasure hunt has stopped after all of this mystic chasing, give me something, a profound thought connecting this chase to life, some revelation, SOMETHING!!! He gave us no treasure and he tied up the story of the heroine in the book. I never not gave a crap about tying up the story of a main character in my life. Alll of that publicity and you gave us what happens to some fictional character that wasn't very intriguing in the first place. And when I seen that there were just a few paragraphs left, I felt cheated. I felt foolish to have trusted him to deliver! &$*%ing cheated. There has to be other people that felt cheated just like me
And on top of that, just as I was trying to fathom how he could come up so lame in an ending, he throws in a paragraph about how she sees the Virgin Mary lit up in the stars. The whole book was a chase to prove that there is no magic, no supernatural son of God, and this bastard ends it with something otherwordly?
If you don't agree with any of that or just wasn't as pissed, you must agree it looked like he rushed the ending. When we reach the climax/anticlimax, there is probably 3-4 pages. In that long book, his ending was less than 10 pages... Yeah... Anybody think I'm crazy?
Stewart
Active Member
First, ROFL at Stewart.
I don't think the ending was a let down.
If I remember correctly,
I don't think the ending was a let down.
If I remember correctly,
he realized at the end of the book that the grail was buried under the museum and the knowledge that it was safe was enough for him
Both The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were great novels, with my preference being Angels and Demons.
I just loved the last third of Angels and Demons. Very dramatic and lots of twists. The carmalengo is one of my all-time favorite characters.
Liked Da Vinci Code movie too. Ian Mcklellan was outstanding.
I just loved the last third of Angels and Demons. Very dramatic and lots of twists. The carmalengo is one of my all-time favorite characters.
Liked Da Vinci Code movie too. Ian Mcklellan was outstanding.
xxGOLDENxx
Member
Although by no means the "best" ending I've ever read, I actually thought it was rather fitting; and tied up the novel rather well. I mean in any book you can find room for improvement, and of course every opinion is different; but the ending matched the theme of the book. To end it any other way just for the sake of increasing its entertainment value; that would be truly cheating the reader.
Actually the movie brought a lot of clarity to the book. Especially the final scene which explains things so well.
Agreed though, you need to read the book first before watching the film
xxGOLDENxx
Member
with book based movies, you almost have to consider them as two seperate stories. Both can be highly entertaining, but in their own way.
JacobGodwin
New Member
Meh....it wasn't worth the hype
I never finished it. The only parts I found interesting were the numerology and conspiracy parts. The plot wasn't all that great and it was terribly predictable. I found it only slightly better than the movie.
I never finished it. The only parts I found interesting were the numerology and conspiracy parts. The plot wasn't all that great and it was terribly predictable. I found it only slightly better than the movie.
Flintlock Bill
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Da Vinci Code was better than I thought. It grabs you and drags you kicking and screaming at a quick pace. The premise is rubbish but as the thriller it did what it was supposed to do.
I read The Da Vinci Code last week. I hadn't really heard much about the book before, nor have I seen the movie. Although I decided to read it because of the attention it has gotten during the past years.
I found it very easy to read but hard to put down. Although I recently started to read Angel's and Demons (I didn't know that this was the first book when I bought The Da Vinci Code) and I'm not so sure that I like this one as much as the previous one. In the beginning when I read The Da Vinci Code I was amazed about how he managed to make the line between all those paintings and events, etc etc but now when I finished the book and the "magic" of reading been broken, it just feels a bit... easy...
I will continue to read Angels and Demons before I make my final statement but I'm not sure that this is the genre for me. It is easy reading when you want to rest from heavier reading but I do not really see his big status. Although I have never really thought of criminal writers as "real" writers.
I hope I'm nog offending anyone now though. I liked the book but I'm just not sure about the big fuzz about it.
I'll give it
I found it very easy to read but hard to put down. Although I recently started to read Angel's and Demons (I didn't know that this was the first book when I bought The Da Vinci Code) and I'm not so sure that I like this one as much as the previous one. In the beginning when I read The Da Vinci Code I was amazed about how he managed to make the line between all those paintings and events, etc etc but now when I finished the book and the "magic" of reading been broken, it just feels a bit... easy...
I will continue to read Angels and Demons before I make my final statement but I'm not sure that this is the genre for me. It is easy reading when you want to rest from heavier reading but I do not really see his big status. Although I have never really thought of criminal writers as "real" writers.
I hope I'm nog offending anyone now though. I liked the book but I'm just not sure about the big fuzz about it.
I'll give it
Flintlock Bill
New Member
I read The Da Vinci Code last week. I hadn't really heard much about the book before, nor have I seen the movie. Although I decided to read it because of the attention it has gotten during the past years.
I found it very easy to read but hard to put down. Although I recently started to read Angel's and Demons (I didn't know that this was the first book when I bought The Da Vinci Code) and I'm not so sure that I like this one as much as the previous one. In the beginning when I read The Da Vinci Code I was amazed about how he managed to make the line between all those paintings and events, etc etc but now when I finished the book and the "magic" of reading been broken, it just feels a bit... easy...
I will continue to read Angels and Demons before I make my final statement but I'm not sure that this is the genre for me. It is easy reading when you want to rest from heavier reading but I do not really see his big status. Although I have never really thought of criminal writers as "real" writers.
I hope I'm nog offending anyone now though. I liked the book but I'm just not sure about the big fuzz about it.
I'll give it
It does exactly what it says on the tin - 'thriller, with some art history'. The fuss was over all that 'Jesus-had-wife-and-kids-shocker' stuff. Not original: it was done more seriously before in Holy Blood and Holy Grail.
The Da Vinci Code
I read the book and I love it.After I continue to read Dan Brown's books as The Lost Symbol and I like it too.I think you should read The Lost Symbol where the profesor Langdon must resolve the mystery of Washington D.C who begin in the Rotunda of the Capitol.
Pioupiou
I read the book and I love it.After I continue to read Dan Brown's books as The Lost Symbol and I like it too.I think you should read The Lost Symbol where the profesor Langdon must resolve the mystery of Washington D.C who begin in the Rotunda of the Capitol.
Pioupiou
I've read it a few years ago and enjoyed it like the other books from Dan Brown. Well a friend (who owns this blog, nothing about symobolgy though) that knows some stuff about symbology told me that the symbols and story twists are no surprise if you know a bit about the stuff, but anyway, I don't know much so I could enjoy it. And I agree, after finished reading I just wanted to go to every museum searching for hidden meanings!