DaVinci Code SUCKS.

Sorry, just finished it and...

Why does it seem that popular culture just fucking has to have;

the girl has the bloodline
the male and female hero's hook up
and they always solve the mystery

????

Bullshit. They would have been shot and hated each other or something like that.

But it did have some really cool points about organized religion, too bad it left out any references. SOmehow the book neglected to mention that Jehovah's Witnesses, yes those annoying pricks, have been trying to teach many of those same ideas right from your very door.

I read that a little bit ago, and I thought it was alright. I don’t regret reading it or anything, just that people blew it up way more then what it was.

I am currently reading it I really like it...so much for the new spoiler feature

I don't know about "sucked", but, I was similarly unimpressed. But, only because it was such a phenomenon and I felt like some really good pieces of literature have gone completely unnoticed lately. For example, anyone read Jonathan Saffron Foer's Everything Is Illuminated?


Yeah, didn't think so.

I took it out from the library. Never got to it though.

OK, that is a knee jerk reaction from reading it in one evening/late night sitting and being disappointed.

What should I expect after just finishing Candide, Fanny Hill, Atonement, Hemingway's Shorts and Midnight's Children?

Dude, the guy was writing a paperback thriller, not a dissertation. That's how those thrillers go. Crichton, Jeff Long, Preston/Child, the DaVinci guy. It's what they do. They take some interesting facts about history or technology or biology and manipulate them to write a thrilling story.

What is it about, anyway? I know next to nothing about it.

Don't worry about spoiling it for me, there's no way I'm gonna read the fuckin' thing.

Read and lent out.

people eat that shit up in hardcover, for sure. i sell tons of 'em. i guess some of these pricks are just like "well so and so has it in hardcover, i'd look cheap if i waited for paperback".

meh. paperbacks.

I get that, expected it, I was trying to say that thrillers are always more thrilling to me when they are somewhat unpredictable. I was really pissed when her bloodline was revealed.

There's nothing wrong with buying science- and techno-thrillers in paperbacks.

Is there?

Cause I loves me some Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and Michael Crichton and all that trash.

It entertained me for a few hours. It was just so damned predictable! I mean c'mon...a redhead named Sophie? I didn't even think the part about her being a blood descendant was supposed to be a secret. Then again, my father made me read Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the fifth grade.

from what i remember, that was a pretty big book when it came out. not 'da vinci code' big, but big still

So... what you're saying is you have no business calling it predictable because you were already versed in the subject. Does that about sum it up?

There was a blurb about it in Maxim magazine so it did okay. But, in my opinion, it was one of the greatest American novels ever written. So, I was really disappointed by the lack of response. And Foer is fucking amazing. He's not even 30.

Thanks, but

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

I actually just finished reading it last night. I thought it was pretty good, but all of the conspiracy stuff in it was old hat to me. If you guys only knew some of the real stories behind the search for the Grail.

Do you have any nonfiction recommendations? I think it's a really interesting subject.

The only thing worse is that there's an Illustrated version of it now.

As if it weren't an unimaginative enough piece of crap that feeds every single bit of detail to the reader, now there are fucking pictures to make it just that much more overbearingly explicit.

Dan Brown writes like a romance novelist. The Da Vinci Code is complete bullshit.

I do, as a matter of fact. Were you looking for stuff specifically Grail-related, or otherwise?

Da Vinci Code is based on the non-fiction book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. You can find it on Amazon.

From Amazon.com
Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller