marywebgirl
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Post by marywebgirl on Mar 17, 2005 11:07:24 GMT -4
I think that's exactly it emersende, and I'll expand on that to say that it's not only the popularity that bugs me, but the fact that people who like it feel smarter for reading it. Like it's an accomplishment! As if that's not bad enough, there are actual tours in France that trace the settings of the book! I mean, for fuck's...
OK, I'm getting too worked up. I'll stop now.
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baseballgirl
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Post by baseballgirl on Mar 17, 2005 11:13:21 GMT -4
OK, yes, the people who go on tours to follow the sites, and who think the book is the God's!Honest!Truth! are just as moronic as the people calling for Brown's head. Although part of me realizes that some of these people might never have otherwise visited the Louvre or be interested in Renaissance art, so maybe it's not entirely a bad thing.
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jennipoo
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Post by jennipoo on Mar 17, 2005 11:25:28 GMT -4
I know this guy - he's 57, "retired", and rides around all day drinking beer and looking for turkeys and/or deer (depending on the time of year). Yet, he read The Da Vinci Code so he supposes himself to be an absolute worldly genius. Assmunch, much? Say that three times really fast.
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Post by kostgard on Mar 17, 2005 13:00:45 GMT -4
I liked some of the ideas behind the story - that there are some who believe Mary Magdalene played a much larger role, etc. And I've always been facinated by secret society type stuff.
The story? Crap. Langdon? Tool. Sophie? Idiot.
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dwanollah
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Post by dwanollah on Mar 17, 2005 13:01:44 GMT -4
Oh, God, YES, and I just am so thankful that I'm not working at the Big*gNarly bookstore chain I did for five years back in the day, because I had to deal with that kind of self-righteous Adrien Mole brand of "intellectual" because people read Celestine Prophecy and Embraced by the Light thought they were spiritual gurus.
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joydisaster
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Post by joydisaster on Mar 17, 2005 15:59:58 GMT -4
isn't there a Chrichton book that some people think "proves" that global warming is bunk?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2005 16:34:35 GMT -4
I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code very much, but there was never any point while I was reading that I had the idea it was a great book, just entertaining.
I read Angels and Demons immediately afterwards and I liked it better -- although the ending is outlandish.
Someone I know who also read both of them was pointing out the similarities. I believe in both books it starts with someone being slowly killed in order for the bad guy to get information out of him. In both, the hero gets a mysterious call in the middle of the night and ordered, without explanation, to fly to a certain location to be briefed on the crisis. Beautiful and smart side-kick, check. Ultimate bad guy who you don't see till the end but is pulling the strings the whole time. Unsettlingly strange cat's paw of the ultimate bad guy who stalks the heros. I think there were more, too. It's like he wrote one of them, then decided to re-write the same book with a few new twists.
I did read a funny review of it somewhere. The person was calculating how fast Langdon would have to be moving at various times to get from Point A to Point B in time to beat the deadlines and it would seem he'd have to have been moving practically at the speed of light a few times.
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afrayedknot2
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Post by afrayedknot2 on Mar 18, 2005 3:10:07 GMT -4
I agree with those who found Da Vinci code to be an entertaining read. I am astonished though at the hordes of people out there who a) take it seriously and b) see it as a well written piece of literature. It felt very similar to any Michael Crichton read to me - enjoyable enough but instantly forgettable. Someone in the old thread on FT linked to Dave Barry's column about the book (you may have to register to see).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2005 10:20:06 GMT -4
I thought it was an interesting book and I did enjoy it. I had no clue until just recently that people bought into that though. Then again people believe Ann Rice is just a conduit for Vampires and that Lestat is real and hanging aroung New Orleans.
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shiningstah
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Post by shiningstah on Mar 18, 2005 16:41:19 GMT -4
OK, here' my take on it. I read many good books but I loved this book! Yeah, IT IS A BAD BOOK and very badly written but it's also very interesting because the topic is interesting . It made me want to read more about many of the topics in it and that's a good thing. Some books are just meant to be mindless fun, not masterpieces or even very good books. If that's what you expect of it (mindless fun), you won't be disappointed.
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