Posted on 06/25/2005 3:07:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I liked Dan Brown's earlier novel (Angels and Demons), but I haven't read this book yet.
I love tales dealing with scholars, conspiracies, and antiquities: "Club Dumas", anything by Ecco or Lovecraft; even "Hudson Hawk". Heck, if it's got the Templars, secret Vactican archives, and cultists, I am so there.
I don't mistake such lurid tales, however entertaining, for reality, though, and don't see how anyone else could. I guess too many people are Biblically and historically illiterate.
"The Da Vinci Code" really is just a rehashing of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", which has been out for ages: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440136482/ref=pd_sim_b_5/104-5904540-8776758?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
And 90+% of moonbat liberals think Oliver Stone's "JFK" is fact...
Wait a minute...you mean to tell me...!
I know I enjoyed the book as well! I was amazed the first time I saw people complaining and acting like it was history.
LOL,
My little cousin is into Harry Potter.
One of my friends has a son who is a huge Harry Potter fan, he says it helped develop his sons interest in reading, but he has since moved onto another book and a new interest which he reads often, daily and is a huge reader of.
The new book he is into is the bible, and all things involving christianity.
Its ironic since my friend isn't that religious but he loves the idea of having a kid who is becoming more and more socially conservative by the day. It gives him less to worry about it, now he just wishes his daughter could go the same route.
It's amazing - reminds me of the Tom/Scientology thread I was just on. This book is written as fiction, yet supposed news sources and documentaries and educators are touting it as non-fiction, as some new discovery, just like L. Ron's Dianetics. Barf. My Canadian friend (now officially a citizen here) loves this book, considers it truth written as fiction because the powerful church would try to squelch it if it were written as non-fiction. We can't even discuss it, because she is incredulous that I don't buy it hook, line and sinker as she does. And she has shared the book with all of her family, in the US and Canada. They agree, they love it, too. She routinely buys the book to give as gifts. She's a Catholic. That's one way the misguided understanding of it spreads. And that's how the book and it's author attack Catholicism and Christianity.
I would venture to say most of my professors and teachers either belived it is fact or some variation of it.
I did have 2 left wing moonbats who were totally against it though....but only because they thought it scapegoated communists and gays to much, and no one affialated with communists or being gay could ever have taken part.
From what those 2 nuts said, I think they thought it was all done by the "military industrial complex" and the GOP.
I've never had a teacher, in my life, who thought it was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
And there are many others--remember "The Passover Plot"? Ludlum had one out, too--15 years ago? But Brown's a FAR CRY from Ecco! (Foucault & Rose can't be faulted on scholarship.) And thanks to one of the "Code" specials, I now realize that the most imaginative bits weren't even sprung from Brown's brow! Just can't wait to see how Hollywood ties up all the loose ends.
For 15 hours...there is someone in the top row of the NG who has motives here.
People are so easily duped!
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