Writer who sued over Da Vinci Code dies

AP ^ | 12/1/07 | JILL LAWLESS

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

They also had a follow up called The Messianic Legacy which I remember less well.

There are a bunch of 'em. I have one I found years ago where they start drawing lines between various Templar spots around Europe and come up with all kinds of weird geomancy stuff. Then there's the one I mentioned above where they talk about the American Revolution being a masonic conspiracy, with the British generals in on it.

[Chode]

i agree with you... i just thought it funny he claimed it as history, and then sued when somebody used his history in a fiction novel.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

There's a similar case when the author of a book that claimed John Dillinger wasn't shot outside the Biograph sued CBS when an episode of Simon & Simon used the same premise. Funny part is that CBS offered a settlement, but the author was greedy and refused. Lost in court for those exact reasons.

Nash v. CBS Inc. (Be sure to read the comment at the very end).

[Chode]

bingo...

[cricket]

Read HBHG in eighties as well. Wondered - albeit, if only for a moment - if my disappointment in Brown's book, was because I had already 'been there'. Was amazed at the material. But, in fact, HBHG was a much better book; as you testify to as well.

Read 'Temple/Lodge' also. . .loved all that stuff. Around the same time; though perhaps a little earlier read 'The Sirius Mystery'/Robert Temple; think Dogen Tribe(as per Sirius) mentioned also in 'Temple'. These books are real mystery tours, for sure. And yes, fun stuff.;^)

[CholeraJoe]

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

For a better fiction ride through conspiracy stuff, check out the Robert Anton Wilson stuff--the Illuminatus Trilogy (which basically treats it all as one big joke, but with the serious message of "don't believe anything uncritically") and the Historical Illuminati Trilogy, which is (slightly) more serious on its surface. Then there's Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", which, I'll confess, has been sitting on my shelf for a decade without actually having been read, although people recommend it highly as a more literary treatment.

Then there's all the books that manage to work Nazis into the same material, like "The Spear of Destiny" or "Morning of the Magicians." I've accumulated a lot of this stuff over the years. I can't resist an oddball book.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", which, I'll confess, has been sitting on my shelf for a decade without actually having been read

Read it! I command you!

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Wow. How can I refuse that?

I'll bring it along over Christmas vacation, since you insist.

[Focault's Pendulum]

It’s really a hard read. Bring coffee.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Hence my failure to get more than ten pages into it any time I’ve picked it up. Planning on bringing not just coffee, but grinder as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’
cnn.com | Nov 9, 2007 | AP
Posted on 11/09/2007 11:47:01 PM EST by RDTF
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