Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) a plagiarist?? - 'DA VINCI' CALLED HEAVY LIFTER

New York Post ^ | 03/14/04 | Page Six

[paulat]

DAN Brown, the author of last year's best-selling "The Da Vinci Code," is nothing but a plagiarist, charges the author of two novels that are strikingly similar to Brown's.

Author Lewis Perdue is preparing to sue Brown for copyright infringement, claiming "The Da Vinci Code" is in large part stolen from his 1983 novel, "The Da Vinci Legacy" and its 1985 follow-up, "Daughter of God" - which were both recently optioned by "Survivor" creator Mark Burnett.

[paulat]

Wow! It was a great page-turner, if you didn't take it all too seriously....

[Mercat]

I started the De Vinci Legacy. It's lousy. Very poorly written, boring, even more of an explicit attack on the church.. very PC

[paulat]

"Da Vinci Legacy" or "Da Vinci Code"?

[walden]

This is interesting-- this kind of a lawsuit could completely stymie the plan to make it into a movie. Isn't it odd how the world works?

[Elle Bee]

world ??

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[Focault's Pendulum]

I wrote The Da Vinci Etiquette Cookbook. I'm pretty sure Martha Stewart owes me reparations.

[dennisw]

Wow! It was a great page-turner, if you didn't take it all too seriously.........

I liked it too...... Comes complete with Opus Dei and French cops hot on his trail

[dennisw]

This is interesting-- this kind of a lawsuit could completely stymie the plan to make it into a movie. Isn't it odd how the world works?
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Helps to make the movie while the book is hot. So maybe they pay off this nuisance suit, chalk it up to the cost of doing business on the road to movie mega-bucks

[AmericaUnited]

I can never figure out why an idiot like this would figure he would not get caught.

[Leo Carpathian]

What is the "literary" world coming to - even garbage gets plagiarised.

[Capt. Tom]

You take from one source it is plagiarism.

You take from many sources it is research. - Tom

[FormerACLUmember]

Thank you. I also found the De Vinci code manipulative, poorly written, and boring. It also just ended in the middle of no where, so to speak, obviously setting up a sequel.

[itwasntme]

I agree.... The Da Vinci Legacy was a lousy book.. But the Da Vinci Code was exciting... I can hardly wait to see the movie!!

[AppyPappy]

One of the ladies at my church called The Da Vinci Code "Jesus for Women".

[Wormwood]

I have too many relatives and good friends in Opus Dei to think "the Davinci Code" is anything but tedious, anti-Catholic trash.

But that's just me.

[Phsstpok]

Wow! It was a great page-turner, if you didn't take it all too seriously....

If you're talking about Da Vinci Code I would only have a few quibbles with your assessment of "wow!"

the plot is laughable

the history is only credible if you are completely ignorant of the history of western civilization.

the theology is insulting, not only to the Catholic Church and Christians in general, but to non Christians, such as Wiccans, as well.

The characters are poorly drawn and behave totally irrationally.

The structure of the story, with repeated, random, use of flashbacks, is at roughly an 8th grade level.

Oh, and the code? I was confused by why anyone had any problem with any part of it. I mean, willing suspension of disbelief is one thing, but having pablum forced down your throat is quite another.

Other than that, it was OK.

If you're interested in well researched and written novels on similar subjects read the Adept books by Katherine Kurtz/Deborah Turner Harris. The two of them also did a couple of great historical novels on the "secret inner circle" of the Templars exiled to Scotland (with William Wallace and Robert The Bruce!) after the corrupt French King Philip le Bel put in his own corrupt Pope by force (moved the Vatican to France, too) and had the Templars declared heretics on, get this, Friday the 13th (oh, Brown meesed up that one too?). Lawhead's Celtic Crusades series and the stand alone Byzantium do a great job as historical novels on the middle history of the Church and the middle east, particular the Crusades.

[Oztrich Boy]

So maybe they pay off this nuisance suit,

Actually it'd pay them to stop talking to Brown and negotiate the rights with Lewis Perdue

[NHResident]

You took the words right out of my mouth - boring, insulting, totally at odds with reality and logic. I couldn't get past the first chapter. BUT my brother-in-law and sister found it fascinating.

[ChadsDad]

I read The Code and liked it tremendously, another similair read is The Confessor, great story. I liked Browns Digital Fortress as well, and I've got deception point ready to begin when I get time.

[paulat]

...other than that, Mrs. Lincolm... ;)