I have just started reading it!
I suppose I dare not read this thread, though....yet...
Not yet!
But very interested in your take once you're finished.
I've wanted to have a real rip-roaring discussion about this one and have gotten some but not all the way there. (Although I have forgotten half of the book already... sigh.)
lol - sounds like we can have us some fun - soon....
now i'm interested, guess i'll go buy it today.
If you take the proper attitude toward it, Deb & Pueo, you'll love it. Just remember that Brown is playing the reader like a fiddle and laughing his arse off in the process.
Hmmmm - I am actually finding it a bit of a pain - the kind of Saturday matinee serial build-up of tension and a new mystery in every little chapter thing is getting to me.
It's like a swing that never gets to soar - just like little swingettes.
I'm in the Mona Lisa room so far.....
I keep expecting "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..."
And I do not like his language use very much.....but I am still reading...
Bunny, that's what makes it funny. It ain't nothing but a Saturday matinee cliff-hanger and a madcap scavenger hunt with outrageously contrived clues abounding. The whole point, I think, is that so many readers have taken it seriously. That's what I love about the book. It's outrageous.
Oh, it's a potboiler. I started reading it with loooooow expectations, and I think if I started reading it thinking it was gonna be all that I would have gotten very grumpy with it. I read it before a lot of the hype.
Taken on its own terms, though, it can be a fun trashy read.
Merry Andrew, I still haven't figured out Brown's motivations. I said a lot of that at my bookclub -- oh come on don't take it so seriously, he's funnin' with ya -- and someone claimed that he'd given an interview saying that he actually believed a lot of what he was saying. I haven't found that interview yet, though. (Haven't looked much either.) If dlowan gets through it without chucking it out the window, I'll look more.
Hmmmmmmm........bit Illuminatusy...
Soz, I haven't read any other Brown books but a friend of mine told me he read the other Robert Langon tome, Angels and Demons. He says it's just as outrageous but here Brown takes an entirely different outlook on theological questions. I'm sure that if he actually said what your friend says he said in an interview, he was having a bit of fun with the interviewer. I mean, you can't miss some of the ludicrous clues and situations. Walt Disney cartoons as hidden messages of female divinity. Iambic pentameter as a sinister clue to pantagrams. Etc. etc. I was ROOTFLMAO.
i finished it. it was interesting, made for a good story.
Ooh, pueo finished it!
dlowan, how are you coming along with it? Chucked it out the window yet?
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
Me? No - I started reading something else...I am book-hopping again!
Me? No - I started reading something else...I am book-hopping again!
You?
Foucault's Pendulum lite
I teach art history at a two year college and my students kept coming up to me and telling me about this DaVinci Code. Having read Foucault's Pendulum years ago in college, I accidently gave away the goods to them about the holy grail. (I guess they hadn't got to chapter 55 yet)
I broke down and bought a copy at Target.
I read it very quickly like pulp or Steven King. I guess I liked it, because it made me feel smart when I was able to figure out the cyphers before these fictional world-class symbologists could.
I like the idea that Dan Brown writes like this on purpose--a hyperbole of the cliff-hanger type conspiracy book. Anyway, he got my money and I read his book. I liked Foucault's Pendulum better. That book permanently changed my perception--like Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow.
Anyone ever read any David Icke?
Yeti, welcome to A2K and this forum!
For me, at least, Foucault's Pendulum falls in an entirely different category from The DaVinci Code. Of course you liked it better!
Have never read any David Icke. What are some of his titles?
arch conspiracy theorist
This is vaguely related to the Da Vinci code, but David Icke is a very popular conspiracy theorist who thinks the world is run by lizards. He is often criticised as being an anti-semite, but he's really just a nut. His writings are based on tracing the blood lines of powerful people and analyzing the symbols of powerful groups. Lots of paranoia, and interesting facts. After all, it is a fact that George W. Bush is a blood relative of Henry the Longshanks of England.
If you have the patience, here is an interesting article:
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