Posted on 12/13/2005 2:42:04 PM PST by sassbox
NEW YORK - In the early months of 2006, expect a few novels with some very familiar story lines.
"Labyrinth," by Kate Mosse, features a rival sect to the Catholic church and a search for the Holy Grail. In "The Templar Legacy," a thriller by Steve Berry, a former government agent attempts to unravel a mystery about an order of knights whose power rivaled the Pope's. Matilde Asensi's "The Last Cato" features the head of the Vatican's secret archive and his efforts to solve a murder with clues dating back to biblical times.
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The Templar Legacy sounds like fun. I enjoy thriller novels like this. Still haven't read Da Vinci code, but I imagine I will someday.
I love medieval art and history. In my opinion, so much more interesting than modern history, but that's just my take.
With that said, I'm very skeptical about what's allowed to come out these days. There was that Kingdom of Heaven film that made the Muslims out to be the good guys and the Christians to be blood thristy savages.
I mean, never mind that Christians were being slaughtered when they made pilgrimages to Jerusalame, that the land originally belonged to the Byzantines and was a Christian land until the sword was lain to the peasents, and nevermind that the Caliphs thought it wise to destroy 10,000 Christian churches, including the tomb of Christ, all in the name of fun and neighborliness.
Not to say that these weren't savage times to begin with. I think that's in part what makes them interesting. No nancying around with the international law.
Thanks for the update. I am always looking for books to read on flights. I especially enjoy the ones that others will notice!
Angels and Demons was published before the Da Vinci Code.
By knowing which book came out first, I found angels and Demons to be a more fun read. It seemed to me that Brown just tried to keep things going in the second book. Just remember that these books are thrillers and fiction.
Too many modern novels from ambitious authors are written as screenplays with the obvious hopes of screen rights going to the highest bidder. The few contemporary novels that I've really enjoyed have avoided this formulaic approach. I'm not adverse to chases, explosions, and helicopter crashes but one can only take so much....
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