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# ooh
they are making a film? Good. I really can't comprehend why people slag this book off, it is ingeniously written. Cleverly constructed and above all a fantastic modern mystery thriller. Just because the American Bible bashing mid west are up in arms is no reason to jump on the Da Vinci bashing bandwagon. Here's a fact for you. It's fiction, it claims to be nothing else.
Film will be a blockbuster I expect. I can't wait to download it ;)
If Clive Cussler can say of it '.....one of the best mysteries I have ever read...' then I'll not take too much worth from illiterate b3tans slagging off a book because they dislike the subject matter.

EDIT:/ The prequel, Angels and Demons is an even
better read.

Edit:/ Not the prequel but rather the story written previously in the adventures of the main character.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:45, archived)
# My boyfriend has been on at me to get Audrey Tautou's autograph.
But I'm damned if I'm driving 25 miles to wait for hours to get a scrawled name and a fake smile.
(I helped save b3ta! CaroWallis, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:47, archived)
# I think people are kinda getting worked up over it.
the catholic church understandbly doesnt want them on their land. As for the book, well whats wrong with fun fiction?

*eats head*
(I helped save b3ta! MrA, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:49, archived)
# I have no problem with the content of the book, fictional or other wise, I hate God as much as the next man
but the fact remains that the book is dull at best, poorly written, slow, predictable, self indulgent, based almost exactly on another, better, book, over rated pop-fiction.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:52, archived)
# you can't really compare
it to Foucaults Pendulum.
Which is ace.
(baroo_the_cat Valley of Weights, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:55, archived)
# ^^^This
.
(Jan van Katzpu, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:58, archived)
# Then don't
Books are written for the sake of the story. You are muddying the waters by comparing it to another story. Who asked you to do that?
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:59, archived)
# the water is very clear
one is shite
the other isn't.
(baroo_the_cat Valley of Weights, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:04, archived)
# I tend to
find Foucault condescending and a little insulting at times. Besides, the only people who read him usually are grad students because they have to, and pompous 'literati' who need to be able to drop his name into conversations at cocktail parties. I just launch into them with Goethe and tell them to get to fuck.
As I said already, it's a moot point. It's all subjective. I happen to like varied writings. I particularly loved the first and second chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever and I've had some ding dong fights with tolkien nazis on those two subjects.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:17, archived)
# tee-hee!
Not Foucault's "Pendulum", Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".

See how great punctuation is?
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:29, archived)
# ahh. If only
I were better read.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:39, archived)
# You launch into them with Goethe?

I don't understand how anyone who knows Goethe
could be a fan of Dan Brown. Just because
pompous fucks like Eco doesn't make it bad.
Personally, I prefer Arturo Perez-Reverte over
Eco, lighter style and better dialog and great irony.
But Dan Brown gives me the shuddering heebie-jeebies...
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Onion, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:30, archived)
# I was misled.
I'm afraid I can't comment on Eco as I have never read any of it. I was referring to a guy called Michel Foucault who was a pompous, condescending twat.
Horses for courses. I read anything and everything I can get my hands on, what I like is what appeals to me at the time. Some adults like Harry Potter, yet I for one could never comprehend reading children's stories stolen from classical mythology.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:43, archived)
# I find there are times
when that's exactly what I want to read.

But mostly I read it 'cos everyone was talking about it and I hate not having an opinion on stuff when everyone else does.

Mmmm... the sound of my own voice...
(Jan van Katzpu, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:56, archived)
# Uhhhm, nope.
I don't give a toss about the so-called 'contraversy' - it's been done before, and better.

No, it's just a really, really badly-written book. Dialogue sucks. Characterisation sucks. This Harvard professor (or whatever he is) gets stumped by Da Vinci's backwards writing? Give me a break.

And the characters! You can hear Dan Brown plotting them out
"Hero, well he had to be American, I mean, of course"
"And a French chick who, being French will be spunky and sexy as everyone knows all French chicks are"
"French guy - he's a dick"
"English guy - gay"



Just really annoyed me.

rant off
(I helped save b3ta! Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 16:55, archived)
# It's all
subjective I suppose. I found it well written. I write myself and have read countless ( worthless really, ) books about creative structure. It does what it says on the cover and is exactly what it purports to be. If it claimed to be litererary genius I would have a differing opinion. I'ts a modern day whodunnit and cleverly set up IMO.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:03, archived)
# the point is different people like different things
for example, some people liked Hitler. This book is a lot like Adolf Hitler. The people who like it are ultimately wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:06, archived)
# ^This
High and mighty? Me?
(I helped save b3ta! Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:10, archived)
# But Hitler was
right about many things, he just did not have a sane enough mind to implement them. We would avoid mass over-population and disease if people would just accept that Eugenics is a natural form of evolution.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:12, archived)
# And with that
it is now officially beer o'clock
(I helped save b3ta! Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:15, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:19, archived)
# uhm
you are being sarcastic?
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Onion, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:00, archived)
# ANGELS AND DEMONS
IS NOT THE FUCKING PREQUEL! GAH! It was wrote BEFORE DA VINCI CODE!
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:01, archived)
# writted
*hides*
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:02, archived)
# My grammar am better well than your grammar.
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:03, archived)
# Erm and
your point is? Are you aware of the meaning of the term prequel?
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:09, archived)
# Yeah, I'm wondering that too now...
Could prequel mean it is written after the first book but set before it? Or is a prequel just the opposite of a sequel?
(I helped save b3ta! Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:12, archived)
# It does not matter
when it is written. The story timeline means that it is set befire the Da Vinci code and therefore a prequel.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:14, archived)
# No it is not.
A prequel is released after. If George Lucas made episode 1 before any others, you couldn't call it a prequel.
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:17, archived)
# FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:19, archived)
# I tell you what, Rik,
I FUCKING FEEL LIKE IT! Any one fancy starting a fight club?
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:21, archived)
# Yeah if
you like. I've been out of the ring a while but I can still knock the fuck out of people.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:23, archived)
# *gets jockstrap*
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:25, archived)
# Don't think you
will need one. Oh and I forgive your arrogance. You are a Stockport lad and it's acceptable. I myself am not too far away and born in the heart of Salford.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:28, archived)
# Sorry
I hold my hands up. My dictionary is telling me you are right. That's an oversight on my part. I was fully aware of the chronology of Brown's work. I have read it all.
(I helped save b3ta! Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:22, archived)
# I am not one to gloat.
Thank you for this very CAPSLOCKY discussion ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Laughing Boy, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 17:23, archived)