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  • The Da Vinci Code's secret of success

    05/30/2006 5:12:52 AM PDT · by croak · 58 replies · 1,096+ views
    The danger that Dan Brown's prose style might be contagious discouraged me from reading The Da Vinci Code, and I decline to see the film. In 1982, I read the same asinine story in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail presented as fact, and do not gladly dive twice into the same sewer. Why this rubbish became the world's best-selling work of fiction, though, paradoxically confirms the strength of America's Christian faith. Why should an American novel depicting Christianity as a hoax command such a readership while Christian faith is resurgent? Americans are migrating en masse to evangelical denominations...