the da vinci code

[qwert]

i can't believe that no one has made a thread about the book/movie yet (unless i missed) , but tell me youre thoughts on it.

[Celluloid Love]

wel wat r youre thoughts?

[Celluloid Love]

LAWL

[kendra]

Ummm...it was entertaining. Kinda shed some light on the whole "holy grail" issue for me, but I'm not sure what I think of Dan Brown.

[Kinbote]

Awful book. My favorite idiot bit was the cringe-inducing sentence "He smiled quietly."

Awful as it was, I sat and read the entire fucking thing in a single sitting, and Angels & Demons to boot, while home with the flu a couple of years ago. Brown may be a bad writer, but he's got his lures, and knows how to drop 'em.

Angels & Demons was the better book, by the way.

[Static Split Screen]

Horrible writer, but an entertaining story. I'm totally seeing the movie.

[Nak Nak]

On behalf of Albinos for Equal Treatment I roundly condemn this contemptible trash.

[Nak Nak]

Ummm...it was entertaining. Kinda shed some light on the whole "holy grail" issue for me, but I'm not sure what I think of Dan Brown.
not really, since he just made a bunch of stuff up about an already quasi-fictional tale.

[aria]

Foucault's Pendulum> The Club Dumas > ...> the da vinci code

i can't wait for the film to come out, i want to see da vinci code parodies/spoofs :D

[TheImplodingVoice]

On behalf of Albinos for Equal Treatment I roundly condemn this contemptible trash.
:yes:

[Kinbote]

Foucault's Pendulum> The Club Dumas > ...> the da vinci code



The Club Dumas > Foucault's Pendulum. Kind of: I admit that Pendulum's a better book, but I LIKE Dumas better, because ol' Umberto's penchant for expository dialogue kinda drove me up the wall.

Have you read Queen of the South? I haven't yet and am hesitant to do so, as its jacket synopsis leads me to believe it a change of pace for Artie, toward something I don't think I'll like.

Flanders Panel'd be my favorite of his were it not for Club's superfun fake engravings.

[aria]

The Club Dumas > Foucault's Pendulum. Kind of: I admit that Pendulum's a better book, but I LIKE Dumas better, because ol' Umberto's penchant for expository dialogue kinda drove me up the wall.

i see where you're coming from. But :heart: the stuff about the publishing company in Foucault's Pendulum - the one that has (literally) cornered both markets - the books written by the crazy cabalists get re-directed to the vanity publishing house, at the back of the building....and I suppose, I feel closer to Italian history than French history so Eco's book had a lot that appealed to me in that respect.

that said Corso is a much sexier character than Causabon, no contest. They're similar characters, in a way, wouldn't you agree? the cynicism, world-weariness, yet both are driven by romantic idealism and thought-out obsession. Both well-read and both are running away from their past. And both mean drinkers to boot.

Have you read Queen of the South? I haven't yet and am hesitant to do so, as its jacket synopsis leads me to believe it a change of pace for Artie, toward something I don't think I'll like.

I haven't been reading his books in strict chronological order. Last one I read was The nautical chart which i didn't like all that much. I'll probably read the Queen of the South at some point. Maybe, I'll wait for it to be translated in Molvanian :)

edit: i do the same thing re: the desk jackets. I'm not the best of book-byers, hard-sells turn me off and i scorn a 3 sentence synopsis. That's why I like libraries. It's all deliciously random, if the book's crap, i don't feel like i've been duped by the marketing deparment of some publishing company and if the book's good, i feel like i've struck gold.

[Kinbote]

Oh, sure. Don't get me wrong: Foucault's had plenty of fun bits, and was a fun book. A friend of mine is in publishing and his stories lead me to believe that that setup isn't so far from the way things actually are. And similar indeed, though Corso I like more, because he reminds me more of me. Just cooler, and with, like, discipline and motivation.

Yes, The Nautical Chart was pretty blah. I remember liking it at the start, and then swiftly liking it less and less, as I realized what there was to it was all there was to it. And that fucking "shock" ending. Ick!

Problem with libraries is the plastic protective wrap they slap on the books - hate that crinkling sound. And the odd stains one sometimes encounters. And I prefer the feel of paperbacks to hardcovers.

Blurbs have been especially repugnant in recent times: they try to spin everything into Oprah's Book Club material. I keep waiting for them to start attaching cut-out coupons for free slices of cheesecake.

[aria]

Oh, sure. Don't get me wrong: Foucault's had plenty of fun bits, and was a fun book. A friend of mine is in publishing and his stories lead me to believe that that setup isn't so far from the way things actually are.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly how things are in the delightful world of publishing :boring:

And similar indeed, though Corso I like more, because he reminds me more of me. Just cooler, and with, like, discipline and motivation.

yeah, i can see that :) and i can see how you might be drawn to his ascetic demeanor.

Problem with libraries is the plastic protective wrap they slap on the books - hate that crinkling sound. And the odd stains one sometimes encounters. And I prefer the feel of paperbacks to hardcovers

Well Molvanian libraries don't put plastic protective wrap on the books (as if), and there are plenty of paperbacks cause molvania is poor like that. of course, molvania spends 5.65% of its total national budget on "defence" so yeah, i guess it's all relative. I can live with stains, i don't particularly like pristine books. i like buying new(ish) books, don't get me wrong. depends if im in molvania or the uk or abroad.

Blurbs have been especially repugnant in recent times: they try to spin everything into Oprah's Book Club material. I keep waiting for them to start attaching cut-out coupons for free slices of cheesecake.

It's a thankless job, blurb-writing, to be sure. What annoys me is that the blurbs now exude self-importance (I've read this book! I've invented the wheel! Hence, you too must buy this book!) and I can read between the lines the lame half-knowing smiles intended to prove that the blurb-writing dude is really just one of us D: fuck off, creepy blurb-writing dude

but maybe i should go back to buying books....i mean, if there's cheesecake involved :D

[i]

:9 Mmm cheesecake

[kendra]

not really, since he just made a bunch of stuff up about an already quasi-fictional tale.

Ehhh well what I meant was, I didn't know much about the quasi-fiction...so him in turn making up more stuff made me want to learn more about the original story.

The book basically screamed 'POP CULTURE TRASH LOL!' but like Ted said, you kept reading it D:

[Leela]

I liked it a lot...although he is a horrible writer :\

[Osceana]

i can't believe that no one has made a thread about the book/movie yet (unless i missed) , but tell me youre thoughts on it.

There have been two (?) other threads about it. I don't know how to fix the thread view though. I don't think i can, i think you have to. It's at the bottom. :\

The book is about as bad as "Left Behind" though.

[thomasg]

forget davinci, all you need to know about the holy grail can been seen in Indiana Jones and the last crusade

if all else fails google image search blair e leighton

[Sleepwalk Faller]

Awful book. My favorite idiot bit was the cringe-inducing sentence "He smiled quietly."

Awful as it was, I sat and read the entire fucking thing in a single sitting, and Angels & Demons to boot, while home with the flu a couple of years ago. Brown may be a bad writer, but he's got his lures, and knows how to drop 'em.

Angels & Demons was the better book, by the way.

I agree with all of this. Especially the part about Angels and Demons. It's a much tighter story and more of a page-turner because there's more human cost at stake in it. The Hasasin character is much scarier than Silas, too, though they pretty much fill the exact same role in terms of the plot.

I think Brown's strengths are in his plots--he is, in ways, a bad writer, not just in terms of "quiet smiles" but in a sort of vicarious indulgence through his characters (reminding me of many other pop fictioners like Anne Rice) that often makes his character development and style less graceful than others'.

It's not the end of the world--I think many authors we would now call "great" did the same thing, Austen certainly being one of them. She, like Brown, created masterful plots that are meaningful and symmetrical if you look at them in terms of their structures, even though the characterizations sometimes feel forced and the level of detail at times unnecessary.

[In Dust and Ashes]

now i know that somebody somewhere on this board made a thread about christians protesting this movie. but I can't find the thread, so I'll just post this here:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/2006/davinci.html

[Static Split Screen]

I went and saw the movie and there were a bunch of angry protestors outside waving pictures of jesus's bloody corpse and praying. I though it was pretty funny. Them standing in the rain and blocking the sidewalk isn't going to deter anyone from watching the film!

[Fab]

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[ramblingrose]

I was just saying "Careful now down with this sort of thing!"
I haven't read the Da Vinci Code, I suspect I'd think it was boring. I think Jane Austen is the most overrated individual to ever lift a pen, btw.

[Squirrel]

I had to give up quoting Father Dad because nobody in Canada likes it. :cry:

Drink Feck Arse

[Trickster]

I had to give up quoting Father Dad because nobody in Canada likes it. :cry:

Drink Feck Arse

What?! That's rubbish! I love Father Dad! ;)

[Squirrel]

I was hung over, leave me alone.

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

http://valdefierro.com/fted008.jpg
Ah yes. The old "careful now" and "down with..". I tend to quote that at least once a day.

The book is pretty bad. A clever idea that made an atrocious story and sucked in enough idiots to think it is anything more thatn just a poor novel. There is no mystery, there is no truth in it. Someone should tell all the retarded catholics protesting about it

[Mary Alice]

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it looks like COnan O'Brien's in that picture

[qwert]

LOL