Upcoming 'Vanity Fair' Article Raises New Issues About 'DaVinci Code' Author

Editor & Publisher ^ | June 06, 2006

[wideawake]

Come on people, it's just fiction! Brown is just pretending he came up with this stuff himself! He never claimed he actually wrote it!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"Seth Mnookin? Seth Mnookin?"
What kinda name is that?

[OldFriend]

Brown blamed the use of material from another author on his wife. Said she did the research. Quite an excuse!

I suspect that if the book hadn't met the agenda of the Court he would have been found guilty but the Court liked that the book was so anti Catholic Church.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

He probably did plagerize, but Dan Brown is a liberal and he will get away with it because he smeared the Christian religion.

[nickcarraway]

What a gentleman. Blame the wife.

[martin_fierro]

The new Vanity Fair article concludes with Perdue's words: "Sometimes it's hard not to feel as if I'm going crazy."

[mnehring]

All of this reminds me of 'Foucault's Pendulum'(Umberto Eco) in which the main characters basically took millions of phrases from esoterica and occult literature and had a computer randomly generate a book. Even the sources that Brown supposedly stole from are just rehashes of earlier works that are rehashes of earlier works.. and so on.. most of which is mistranslated or bastardized Gnosticism.

[rhombus]

Classic smear from the politics of personal destruction magazine Vanity Fair. Remember folks, the liberals don't like this guy either.

[Enchante]

"Finally, Mnookin offers evidence that he says may link Brown's wife, Blythe, to a spate of "mysterious" e-mails that Perdue has received, coming from one "Ahamedd Saaddodeen.""

Great, a pair of raving moonbats married to each other. She helps with the research and harasses critics with pseudonyous emails, while he 'writes' the plagiarized 'books' and together they pocket millions. Sounds like a marriage made in hell........

[nickcarraway]

At least Foucault's Pendulum was an interesting and well-written book. Eco could have a series of catastrophic anyeurisms and still be a better writer than Brown.

[mnehring]

Foucault's Pendulum was brilliant. It is almost impossible to find any current authors who can put out a novel like that any more.

[YCTHouston]

Eco has a great essay that discusses a famous rehash in his short book "Serendipities," telling how a series of little known works of fiction eventually came to be known as the Protocals of the Elders of Zion (which were taken seriously by fools then just as Davinci is today).

[irishjuggler]

Classic smear from the politics of personal destruction magazine Vanity Fair. Remember folks, the liberals don't like this guy either.

Oh, yeah? From what I've heard, most left-wing nutcases (especially the feminist subset) seem to love Dan Brown for exposing the "lies" behind Christianity.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Da Vinci Code is unreadable crap, but expanding upon other peoples' ideas is not plagiarism.

If it were, anybody who writes historical fiction, or non-fiction for that matter, would be a plagiarist.

[PeaRidge]

Lemme see if I got this right. Brown wrote a fiction novel to prove that Christian truth is fiction.

Brown allegedly used the work of others for his own......self-fictionalzation........and claims it is factual.

Some are now saying that random publishing can produce plagiarism.

Hmmm. Lends credence to the quote that a plagiarist copies the work of another, while a historian quotes the works of several others.

[toon shine]

> Remember folks, the liberals don't like this guy either.

Liberals love (not just like) any sliming of Christianity. That's why across the West the liberals are hard at working trying to dismantle and rewrite (or outright exclude) any refrence to Christianity's major (and overall positive) influence on the West.

[The KG9 Kid]

[Enchante]

The "feminist subset" loves both the anti-Christian messages and the vague "goddess religion" of pseudo-Gnostic babblings. Unfortunately, I have one family member in another state who is devoted to that nonsense. I sent her some links (after she had mailed me a copy of the novel), links to info debunking virtually all of Brown's claims about history, Christianity, art, etc. I wasn't harsh, all I said was "you might want to know some more about this guy and his alleged 'research'...... All she wrote back to me was "I DON'T CARE - THE GODESS RULES!"

People like that depress me deeply..... not even remotely interested in learning any facts, only concerned to live all warm and fuzzy within a cult.

[Mom MD]

I liked his earlier book "the name of the rose"