duberdurm

Same here. The story was boring and I kept waiting to see what everyone is finding so good about it. I listened to it on audiobook and it almost put me to sleep. It could have appeal because people seem to like ideas that challenge traidtion and religion, but as a story/idea I found it highly overrated.

Ennui

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Lmfao at your "book beef"...

Honestly...

I thought it was boring. It was interesting enough to lead me into doing my own research, but the author's "evidence" is not even close to legit. DaVinci lived almost 1500 years after the death of Christ.

The book was pourly written, cliched, and also a very half-assed attempt at trying to destroy Christianity. And, the author just got a lucky break.

Anarkos

Believe it or not, I'm actually almost a relatively nice guy most of the time. Well, aside from at law school, at work (where I pretend really well to be friendly and nice and polite while reciting Promise of Bloodshed lyrics in my head), at any kind of debating thing, in any party or bar where bands aren't playing...

...um, okay, perhaps I'm not, haha.

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BeautifulDisaster

The Da Vinci Code is an amazing book! The movie, on the other hand... is just okay.

It doesn't matter what anyone writes- somehow, people are gonna find something to be offended about.

Stewart

Your opinion holds little weight unless you back it up. As it stands, your commentary is superfluous. Why do you think it is amazing? Convince us.

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MarkINR

One word:


BIGOTRY.


If I wrote a book that said black people were created after 10 monkeys had a huge orgy in a methane polluted bog I'd be ridiculed, punished, and ostricized from society. Mr. Brown is writing the equivalent about christians and recieving a standing ovation. I am opposed to the Da Vinci Code in the highest degree and believe it to be an abomination to writing in all it's forms.


P.S. That isn't to say that I support those loons protesting outside the movie theater. No, the best course of action here is to ignore Mr. Brown's offensive and insensitive piece of fiction and let it gently fade away into obscurity.

NatureHoldsAnswers

well, i had a road trip and decided to get the audio cd, im on chapter 22, and i find it utterly annoying and i think its questioning my intelligence that it explains EVERYTHING, ugh. other than that, the story itself is interesting, just the way he is writing it is annoying, ill continue reading it for some unknown reason, just to get to the end to see how different it was fromt he movie. anyways, yeah. enjoy.

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I'm not much of a prude, admittedly, but I do snub a novel that I believe to be lacking in literary merit, and this work was just such a case. Mr. Brown's command of the language was paltry, to be quite frank. I'm sure it made for a pleasantly quick read, but it is certainly undeserving of such great attention; this author's works will not survive him.

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Though I am a Christian, I do not get offended by things some people do. Some Christians fear God cannot take care of himself. Some Muslims fear any criticism of Islam. Some blacks see every action by whites as racist. I generally don't pass time with any such people, as their focus is fearful and hateful.

But the book, the very structure of the book, is weak and lame and the product of a person desperate to make money and with no concern for the skills of the craft. He collected a large assembly of previously concocted lies and mistruths and wove them together very poorly, and unconvincingly, into a ridiculous patchwork, using marginal grammar and wordsmithing skills. He repeatedly declared figments to be true, though the story is fiction, and surely enough, many of the lies declaring decendants of Jesus have been forged and salted into legitimate archives. His wording, however, is bent to declare the substance of the false documents to be true, which is just too lame to allow me to finish the book. I perused enough to be disgusted with the caliber of the writing, but must admit a degree of envy at the money he's making. When all is said and done, however, I confess that I would prefer not to be in his shoes when it's over, to be known worldwide as a cheap hack without hope of producing a truly literary manuscript.

I wouldn't let this moo-yak write an obituary for a goldfish.

Blossom

I've not actually read the Da Vinci Code, and I can't say I particularly want to, but my brother has and he said it was "airport fiction of the worst kind" and told me to read it just so I can have an opinion on it. He also said the book basically consists of "Puzzling problem - conviently useful flashback - puzzle solved".

That aside, what annoys me when listening to people harp on about it is they way so many take it seriously. The key word is "fiction" - look it up. But again, I haven't read the book, so possibly they have good reason to take it seriously.

I also get annoyed when people have a go at Catholics for being offended by it. I'm a Catholic, and while I'm not particularly offended by the insinuations Dan Brown makes about the Catholic Church (I know enough about the book to say that ^^) I'm angry that he's recieved such high praise for a book that claims Christianity is a con/part of a conspiracy, but if anyone dared to suggest such a thing about Islam, Judeaism or any other religion the world would be horrified. But people can say whatever they like about Catholicism or Christianity and noone cares. And Catholics have a perfect right to be upset that somone's badmouthing their religion.

I think I might just read the book this summer so I can have my own say on its structure, grammar and characters.

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attracted long enough attention for me to read it in couple of days with interesting facts about da vinci and the history of holy grail...
in some part i found it boring

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