im thinking about reading it but i dunno if i should… is ti any agood? wuts it about? i heard there are some rly big flaws but still is it worthwhile reading?
I loved the book. But I’ll say this. Please read Angels & Demons first. They are making The Da Vinci Code into a movie. I got my hands on the script a while back.
I read the book, and in my usual fasion, let it turn my world upside down. Then I did a little research…
I should say that it was a good read, though. Could have been that I read it with the belief that the historical references were true, as Brown claims on the FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK. Just don’t let that throw you.
don’t bother. It’s all derivative. Read Foucault’s Pendulum
I really enjoyed the book, mostly for it’s historical references and whatnot. Was probably the first thriller-type book I’d read since I was 12 with Jurassic Park.
As a literature major there was one thing that absolutely pissed me off, though, once I found out who the teacher was. Because at one point Brown deliberately lies to the reader, and not in some coy fashion, but actually puts thoughts into someone’s head who wouldn’t be having those thoughts, only to conceal the Teacher’s identity. While an important cause, lying to the reader breaks faith in the narrator. There were better ways he could have gone about doing it.
two points of interest. One, Basta are you bastamon? The that left that freestyle in Imperial Minds? and Two, at what point is that? Because I was on a ship when I read it, and decided to read it again after I was done. Are you talking about the part in the limo?
Now the book is great, and I do think that the historical references are correct. It is just the way the characters used them that warped it a bit.
Smooth, yeah! Then you caught it too!
He says something like “Now you’ll pay for all you’ve done to mankind …”, but when their relationship is revealed, then its shown this would be the last thing from his mind. It may have worked if he’d spoken it aloud, meaning, he was trying consciously to fool the driver or someone, but those were supposedly in his thoughts, to which they only served to mislead an audience whose existence isn’t real in the story.
Ah well. Maybe it didn’t bother others as much as it bothered me. But, as you’re a magician, Smooth, you can understand the sleight of hand and whatnot. Writing, I think, is quite similar. Except you use words to imply certain ideas into the reader … lying outright loses much artistic integrity. (Though he salvaged it somewhat with the phenomenal working in of history.)