[Vaquero]

its a dad-blamed novel strictly for entertainment. Conservative friends and relatives have read it and dont see demons or ghouls or anyone trying to rewriter christianity in any of it.

too many people need to take a break already.

[A CA Guy]

Oh, so you didn't know people actually converse around the fiction like it is real?

They do and I've heard them do it.

I do wish the more idiotic people who stop taking it seriously.

[RexBeach]

Right. My God, it says on the cover it's a NOVEL.

Why is it that liberals are so excited about conspiracies?

[marktwain]

I listened to it on CD, and was not impressed. There were just too many contradictions and falsehoods for my rational world view to overcome.

Then, the ending... all of the intrigue, money, time and energy spent... all over ... nothing? If I hadn't needed a story to keep me alert during a thousand mile drive, I wouldn't have listened past the first chapter. I would never have bothered to actually read it.

[K-oneTexas]

Agreed. Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. As is Angels and Demons (into the Vatican's secret library and tunnels), The Rule of Four (about an old mysterious manuscript) and a score of others. It used ideas and places and things familiar to us all and then weaves a mystery around it.

That's how authors get and keep your attention and they entertain with their plot twists. Being a Mason, Brown's next book does sound very interesting. The recent movie 'National Treasure' with Nicolas Cage was also interesting for the same reason. I read somewhere they are trying to make a second one.

Some others I'm trying to find to read include: The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra (secrets surrounding Da Vici's painting of The Last Supper), The Last Cato by Miltilde Asensi (about solving a mystery whose clues date to biblical times) and The Labryinth by Kate Moss (a rival catholic sect and the Holy Grail), The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (centering on a theft at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with one stolen piece dating back to the Crusades) and The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (dealing with the mysterious order).

I think everyone is intrigued by things old, historic even biblical and of course mysteries. Kids at heart, you know.

[Fred Hayek]

Yet the libs, especially the women here in Minnesota, see it as "gospel".

It is F I C T I O N.

[Little Ray]

Actuall, Dale Brown dodges the question of the empty tomb, but for the most part casts Christ as the pretender to throne of Israel. That is a bit of a rewrite if you ask me.

Not that I really care.