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Codebreakers rack their brains to solve Dan Brown's new poser
London Times ^
| 1/2/06
| Ben Hoyle
Posted on 01/02/2006 12:55:51 PM PST by wagglebee
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So now the masons and the Mormons will be blamed for creating Skull and Bones and producing George Bush.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:55:53 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
I don't get it. I read the book, and thought it was really stupid.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:57:11 PM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: wagglebee
Oh goody, another book/movie to make people think the Masons are a big evil conspiracy that controls the world...
Dan Brown isn't a bad author as long as you take his writing as the fiction it is.. the problem is too many people take his books seriously.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:57:55 PM PST
by
mnehring
(“Anybody who doesn’t appreciate what America has done and President Bush, let them go to hell”...)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:01:10 PM PST
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: mnehrling
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:05:01 PM PST
by
ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
(To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
To: wagglebee
A film version of the novel, starring Tom Hanks as the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, and Audrey Tautou, who played the title role in Amélie in 2001, as the French cryptographer Sophie Neveu, opens in May. So now we know when the book will come out.
It probably would have anyway to catch the summer vacation reading surge.
So9
To: teenyelliott; apackof2; Dashing Dasher
Just too easy......
"You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out,
You put your..............."
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:08:20 PM PST
by
Texas WOP
To: teenyelliott
I don't get it. I read the book, and thought it was really stupid.I thought he did a good job of weaving a story around a bunch of conspiracy theories that have been around a long time. It's not fine literature, but fine literature usually doesn't amuse me as much.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:10:54 PM PST
by
cryptical
To: mnehrling; wagglebee
Brown...confirmed that his next novel would be set within the oldest fraternity in history, the enigmatic brotherhood of the Masons.I'm looking forward to learning the hidden meanings of that obscure ritual activity known to some as "The Kegger".
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:11:14 PM PST
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: teenyelliott
I got to 100 pages or so and stopped. It was too much - too many coincidences, the protagonists too lucky in their ability to solve mysteries, just basically too unbelievable. You can take the breakneck speed factor and overdo it, which I believe was done in this book.
To: Lizavetta
It was like reading an I Love Lucy episode, only fancier.
"Oh, look, they are going to get caught. Oh, look, they got away. Oh, look, they are going to get caught. Oh,look, . . .
And then the ending: "Hey, let's get together later and have sex."
"Okay."
The End.
Fabulous writing. The stuff of legend. Or at least worthy of making a stupid movie.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:15:15 PM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: wagglebee
42. The answer is 42.
To: siunevada
I'm looking forward to learning the hidden meanings of that obscure ritual activity known to some as "The Kegger". It's an ancient practice designed to insure that the regurgitation reflexes function correctly.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:17:48 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Tom Clancy for Conspiracy Nuts?
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:17:57 PM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: teenyelliott
Hey, has anyone here read The Lost Painting about a missing Carraveggio? I think the author is Jonathan Harr or something like that.
To: wagglebee
Sounds George Washington related...He was THE BIG MASON in Williamsburg, Va. and their are many references to events he attended as being done in "Masonic Fashion".
There was also a 1750 Fraternity at William and Mary College in Williamsbugh Virginia. The name appears in letters only (FHC) and no one ever has said what the Latin would be. Thomas Jefferson was a member of this "Secret Club".
In the 19th and 20th century, it called the Flat Hat Club. It was specific to friendship, mirth, conviviality, science and charity.
Anyone remember their Latin?? Wanna Guess?
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:24:41 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: wagglebee
Just a reminder .....Dan Brown ...writer of FICTION.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:30:44 PM PST
by
badpacifist
(Schadenfreude)
To: badpacifist
Fiction it is. I enjoy historical novels but the DaVinci Code doesn't even rate that.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:37:32 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: teenyelliott
I thought the same thing about the ending. The story had a great lead up and wove in some interesting history, but the end just fell flat. It was like Dan Brown got tired of writing and just decided to end the book as fast as he could.
I'm surprised that the focus of the next book will be on the Masons considering that "National Treasure" was releasesd not too long ago.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:39:52 PM PST
by
GovGirl
(Newsweek lied, people died...can we make that into a t-shirt?)
To: teenyelliott
I thought it was entertaining.
What I find stupid and borderline scary are the people who somehow think this novel has a basis in reality, kind of like the same people who thought that Oliver Stone's "JFK" was a documentary.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:43:37 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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