It's Jesus or Dan Brown

To: nina0113; All

What's amusing (sort of) about all this is: Dan Brown (nor Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, & Henry Lincoln) didn't invent this myth at all!

All they did was recycle a medieval myth perpetrated by some “noble” families (the Medecinis were one I believe) to enhance their political standing. They needed the mythology in order to make their claim to being direct descendants of Christ.

21 posted on 05/21/2009 8:06:29 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)

To: WilliamPatrick

I was listening to a women in the market talking. She had just seen it and said it was OK but not as good as the D. Code.

22 posted on 05/21/2009 8:16:13 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)

Just what are you people reading on a day to day basis that makes you think that Dan Brown’s novel are good fiction?

In “The Da Vinci Code” he spends the first thirty one pages trying to convince the reader that the antogonist is:

6’6
A fulltime Monk
A part time assassin
fastens boards full of nails to his thigh in flagellation....or something. Or maybe he is just a masochist.
An Albino with pink eyes
He is misunderstood

And from there the book goes downhill because it basically consists of word games. I refer to it as “Wheel of Fortune: The Death Match”.

The only book I have read that is worse than this drivel is “Tom Swift on Sindrift Island”. It is horribly written.

1. Cops do not communicate by cell phone to other cops. They use emergency radios that are extremely sophisticated. I used to sell those radios. I know what they can do.
2. A Smart Car will not, repeat, will not outrun a police issued Renault. Under any circumstances.
3. Parisian Police use choppers during car chases just as we do.
4. Detectives do not give perps “enough rope to hang themelves”. They nail them at the first opportunity.
5. The romance between the stunningly beautiful (with a perfect bod) detective, and the professor of Cryptology in his early fifties with slight graying at the temples is hack writing. It is roughly the equivalent of the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night...”. The next time you run into it, bag the book up, take it back Barnes and Noble and demand a refund under the UCC Code “Goods Not Fit for Resale”.
6. Epilogue to #5: Quelle Surprise! Zut Alors!

This book is one of the most awful books I have ever read. I finished it (did not buy it, no way) just to see how the train wreck ended. And my patience was rewarded when, to my horror, Francois Mitterand made an appearence at Versailles in the last pages as one of the keepers of the secrets.

23 posted on 05/21/2009 8:36:08 AM PDT by texmexis best (uency)

To: texmexis best

I also borrowed the book (wouldn’t buy it either). Atrocious writing. But the confusion arises when the writer claims it’s fiction based on truth and goes back and forth between the two. Unlearned people will believe this tripe unfortunately.

24 posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:55 AM PDT by BipolarBob (It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)

To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

I know. A really fun treatment of the myth is "The Serpent Garden", by Judith Merkle Riley, set in Cardinal Wolsey's household. I can recommend any of her books, but that one is my favorite.

25 posted on 05/21/2009 9:34:16 AM PDT by nina0113

Raising the kundalini of his chakras with Aunt Bee.
Aunt Bee and Opie summoning Lucifer through incantations in a gnostic Albigensian ritual

The sequel will be a riot: Illuminati in Mayberry.
Opies and Demons: Dark Secrets of the Opie Code

26 posted on 05/21/2009 1:31:43 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

27 posted on 05/21/2009 10:41:14 PM PDT by Salvation ( Â†With God all things are possible.Â†)

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