The DaVinci Code

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The DaVinci Code

Putting aside all the plagarism charges and everything else, for those of you who have read this book how do you feel about it? Did you like it, dislike it, feel it insulted catholic religion like some believe? What were your views?

sorry about mispelling plagiarism .

Give me the beat boys and free my soul! I wanna getta lost in ya rock n' roll and drift away. Drift away...

Couldn't get past the first few pages. I doubt Dan Brown wrote the book for people like me. If you want to buy my book, visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/
http://www.abctales.com/node/10305 What worries me about this book is that it's so obviously shite but so many people who's opinions I rate liked it. Like a physisist who finds an particle that doesn't fit in to any theory, it gives me the queasy feeling that there's something fundamental about the world I have completely missunderstood. keep your grubby mits off my website http://www.too-many-monkeys.com

 

I've only read a few paragraphs flipping through it in the book shop. The prose looked awful, but I can well understand the appeal of the subject matter. It is something I personally find fascinating, and I've read a number non-fiction pop-history books on a similar subject, including The Passover Plot, which was a massive bestseller in the 1960s. "You don't need the light of the Lord to read the handwriting on the wall." Copies of Warsaw Tales available through www.new-ink.org
I have read this book and I enjoyed doing so. I can't see why so many think it poor quality. It tells a story clearly, in plain, simple English, is exciting and thought provoking, was well received by the public and became a best seller. What more must an author do? In fact I have read and enjoyed all his books though I found the last one a little tedious. As to insulting any faiths....well that and conspiracy theories no matter how far fetched has become so commonplace now that I don't suppose anyone even gave it much of a thought. I wonder what Dan Brown is going to make of the latest revelation about Judas Iscariot?
I haven't read it but I did read one of his other books on holiday and thought it was appalling - laboured prose, cliched characters, too much time trying to impress you with his research and a "mystery" which was blatantly obvious to anyone who can do a crossword. But by then my wife had bought it, so what does he care that he's a crap writer? And even if he didn't technically plagiarise the Da Vinci Code, it's simply rehashing an old controversy.
I wasn't really interested in reading this but was given a copy today to read. I am really enjoying this so far. I like the simple way it is written & I've learn't a lot of interesting trivia. In this fast world you sometimes need fast food and a fast book to shock the senses awake. A good read so far.
Thought it was great, couldn't put it down. Looking forward to the movie. I did begin 'Angels and Demons' but, due to all the juicy science fact-bites in the first few pages, I went on a mad science bender for about a year, digesting everything I could quantum and I still haven't gotten round to finishing the book. Needless to say, Da Vinci Code didn't have the same effect, except that I may have looked at the last supper for the first time. Hear my music: http://music.download.com/3600-5-100795586.html

There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed -
Dennett

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