Dan Brown / DaVinci Code

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:39 am

Okay, so my coworkers are trying to convince me that I'll like this. I'm sure someone here must have read it. To me though, the story is redundant, I already know the story about the Holy Grail - it had Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in it, remember?

jdr3 · Post by **jdr3** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:25 pm

Yeah....slightly different, though the same thing....there is no father figure in this one...

If you do read it, do so with an art history book near by....kinda of interesting to be able to refer to some of the stuff....plus Indy didn't get as much protesting as this movie is...I mean nuns are trying to stop it and bishops are being bought ... heavy man

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:18 pm

I hear you about the picture thing. Our secratary spent the better part of a whole work day researching different pics on the net for reference. There's an illustrated version at Walmart for like $25, I'm thinking that might be the best bet.

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:22 pm

Or you could be a fine arts major and know what the hell they're talking about.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:02 am

jjreason, this is your old pal anarky talking. This is normal, sane anarky (well, as sane as anarky can be), not "wacked out on crack that your Bizarro version sold me so I hated ROTS."

So trust me when I say this: check it out from a library, or borrow a copy. Do not pay for this book.

Dan Brown is one of those folks who loves to overly describe things, and can't live without using words that are so big even English scholars have to look up half of them. This applies whether he has a reason to or not.

He definitely did research on the artwork he talks about. But the theories about da Vinci and Mary Magdalene that are supposedly revolutionary--old news. I remember reading them in high school and thinking they were horseshit then.

Admittedly, writing stories around crazy theories is no sure recipe for disaster. (Where would Tom Robbins be without wacked out theories?) But this reads like a fifth grader who's trying to keep himself awake while writing a report by surrounding it with a predictable mess of a story that's so hackneyed it would make Stan Lee blush.

Read Graham Hancock instead. He's no less insane, and his theories are even more ludicrous. But at least he's a good enough writer to make you stick around to the end.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:21 am

Okay, thanks man. You're a little late though. I got the one with pictures, and must say I've learned a lot - I think. I'm really digging the stuff about the Knights Templar/Priory of Sion (that's AWESOME comic fodder there, by the way) and could really give a rat's ass about the hero or the murder mystery. It's like a mini art history lesson or something, and I'm so completely ignorant to that aspect of life that I'm happy to be reading it. It's not that long either, which helps.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:33 pm

And now Tom Hanks is gonna be in a movie. Having read the book, I am so not interested in this. I imagine if I hadn't read the book, I would be intrigued, but since I know everything that is gonn happen, i would be bored shitless sitting through two hours of Hanks and his mullet.

Negative Boy · Post by **Negative Boy** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:53 pm

Oh golly gee whiz look. Another topic about a movie that got made from a book. I'm so glad you are all Hollywood's puppets and just read whatever they tell you to. I hate to break it to you, but the Holy Grial is NOT in the Louvre in France. If it was, they wouldn't have it hidden, they would have it on display. And most albinos aren't christian. I looked it up, the Catholic church eschews deviant lifestyles like gayism and albinoism. If there are albinos out there who are christian, they have to hide it and I hope they know they are going to hell for that lifestyle. I found this book completly unrealistic because no one would invite a boring college professor to another country to talk about boring stuff and put him in a nice hotel where hot French chicks can find him and talk about Christianity. I think it would have been better if the bad guy turned out to be a Communist or a Muslim or maybe a Nazi Muslim and the professor was sort of like Mack Bolan, the Executioner!