As I have said before, here is guy who is so jet-lagged in Paris that he can't be woken up by the ringing phone. Once he is up he never again sleeps, eats, or takes a dump for more than 3 days. This is a plot????????????????????
Haven't seen the movie-YET. I couldn't put the book down.
Sad if Ron Howard couldn't keep the suspense the book had.
I have one problem with the likes of Mark Belling hammering at the DaVinci Code.
He is confusing "belief" with "knowing".
He and many other Christians - all religions, for that matter- BELIEVE what they are being taught about Christ- or whoever.
Those BELIEFS are based on a BIBLE that has been re-written a number of times, and I don't think anyone knows how many times. Some of the Popes that ordered the "revisions" were not litterate themselves, depending entirely on the few members of their court that could read and write. There is also the issue of "translations" from one language to another.
Since NO ONE is alive today who was alive when Jesus walked the Earth, then there is no KNOWLEDGE of what really occured. ONLY fragments of words written sometimes long after Jesus had to be dead and gone, no matter how long he lived. That is why the various books of the Bible I learned from are called "the Gospel according to _______, or are called "the Book of ______.
I am not trying to bash Christians or their beliefs.
I am only trying to point out the difference between KNOWING something and BELIEVING something.
Each is welcome to their belief. Da Vinci Code is a book and a movie- It is not the Gospel according to Dan Brown.
Geez, maybe I have a short attention span, but I found the book to be completely unreadable.
My wife, who's pretty devout, loved the onovel. I hated it. The difference is that she read it purely as a work f fiction, whilst I (amateur historian and biblical archaeology buff that I am) read it as bad "historical" fiction.