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Code Breakers: "The Da Vinci Code" and its discontents.
The Wall Street Journal ^
| April 23, 2004
| John Miller
Posted on 04/23/2004 1:38:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus
The best thrillers are unputdownable--a word that many readers surely attach to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." It's difficult to ride a subway or walk through an airport these days and not see somebody engrossed in its page-turning tale of murder and conspiracy. In 13 months since publication, the book has sold more than seven million copies.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianity; davinci; davincicode; fishwrap; holygrail; jesus; marymagdelene; religion; scatological; wasteofpulp
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I actually disagree with Miller that "The Da Vinci Code" is a "rollicking good read" ... I found it rather disappointing. Better to read the original schlock classic
Holy Blood, Holy Grail; at least there, you'll learn some interesting history. It's better written, too.
To: Cincinatus; Caleb1411; BibChr; logos; The Big Econ
BUMP
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posted on
04/23/2004 1:40:35 AM PDT
by
rhema
To: Cincinatus
Yeah, I found it a clunky, blatant attempt at a screenplay for the inevitable movie.
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posted on
04/23/2004 1:41:32 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Cincinatus
Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln's books are riveting reading. The existence of the Priory Of Sion is a documented fact.
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posted on
04/23/2004 1:46:21 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Cincinatus
Anyone got an opinion on how The Da Vinci Code compares to Foucault's Pendulum?
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posted on
04/23/2004 2:13:25 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
To: Oztrich Boy
Foucault's Pendulum is a great book! Funny and irreverant. Clever and erudite. Vastly superior to The Da Vinci Code. IMHO.
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posted on
04/23/2004 2:19:32 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: goldstategop
Well, In the 1990s Pierre Plantard admitted it was a fraud he made up the 1950s, and never spoke of it again. Or perhaps he just wants us to think it was a lie... :)
To: Oztrich Boy
I love Umberto Eco's book on The Templars. All kinds of stuff and its as funny as it is serious.
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posted on
04/23/2004 2:44:54 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: pepsi_junkie
To some, whole thing smacks of Barry Chamish's obssession with UFOs and the Trilateral guys who rule the world from their ultra-secret heaquarters in Washington, D.C.
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posted on
04/23/2004 2:48:21 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Cincinatus
I tried to read it based on my brother's recommendation - I found it obvious, trite, juvenile and boring. I was amazed at the apparent number of readers who are hypnotized by the book - but then thought of the millions of copies of "Who moved my cheese?" - another extremely juvenile statement of the glaringly obvious that have been and continue to be purchased. Clearly 'common sense' is no longer very common.
To: Cincinatus
It's better written, too.I'm very interested in the subject but Holy Blood Holy Grail made me believe I had become a narcoleptic.
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:15:30 AM PDT
by
Stentor
To: Cincinatus
Am I the only one who enjoyed the book?
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:16:03 AM PDT
by
Snowy
(Microsoft: "You've got questions? We've got dancing paperclips.")
To: Snowy
I liked Holy Blood, Holy Grail too; so you are not alone.
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:19:16 AM PDT
by
Nakota
To: Stentor
You'll notice that I used the comparative, not the superlative.
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:20:36 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Snowy
I don't know -- are you?
Actually, for a good trashy novel to pass the time, try one of Brown's other novels, Deception Point, about NASA and the alleged finding of a meteorite with fossils in it. Silly plot and scientifically inaccurate, but the still great fun!
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:22:45 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Cincinatus
the davinci code is over/rated ... this guy's books all contain the supersmart and superhandsome professor who runs into the even supersmarter and superbeautifuler woman, they have some hubba-hubba, while outsmarting international do-badders to boot... when his plots run thin, he tosses in a 'miracle' to get it back on track ... trust me, if you've read one of dan's books, well, you know the rest
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:25:23 AM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it)
To: Cincinatus
After reading the Da Vinci Code I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I was surprised at all the same codes I found in it.
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:25:39 AM PDT
by
Alouette
(Gaza -- Too small for a country, too large for an insane asylum)
To: goldstategop
The existence of the Priory Of Sion is a documented fact. Anyone who would make a statement like this on the basis of having read a single book and none of its references (assuming it even had any), has got to be awfully young and relatively uneducated.
I have here a very impressive tome published by the Flat Earth Society...
Or was it The Hollow Earth? I forget.
To: Cincinatus
Foucault's Pendulum
is a great book! Funny and irreverant. Clever and erudite. I couldn't read it. Labyrinthian sentences and abstruse vocabulary made it too much a chore.
To: Fifth Business
Labyrinthian sentences and abstruse vocabulary made it too much a chore.LOL! I see you've decided to eschew obfuscation.
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posted on
04/23/2004 5:32:30 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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