da Vinci code

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:09 am

This book is unstoppable. My local bookshop is having a discussion night on Monday. Interest is spiking because of the film release I suppose. I can't for the life of me think of an airport novel that has had this amount of impact. Say what you like about Dan Brown but he got it right with his formula.

Post by **Sloth** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:58 am

I read 20 pages of it and stopped. Maybe this year in Greece I will give it another go. Honstly this is the perfect book for Americans... non-literary, quasi-mystical, and purporting wild speculation as fact.

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:06 pm

I wouldn't disagree with you about sales in america, but he sold a shitload of stuff everywhere else. You could probably buy a yacht with his Ukranian residuals. He certainly got the subject matter spot on.

TragicPixie · Post by **TragicPixie** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:44 pm

I actually had to read bits of it for my theology class last semster - it seemed interesting if slightly off (from a Catholic-theological basis)
but I think the subject matter hit a huge nerve. Definately for Catholics anyway - with the controversy over women's place in the church, etc. I mean, he presents folklore and theories that do exist outside this book and makes them interesting/palatable for the average person.

Of course, from a feminist perspective, it all ends in a terribly disappointing way.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:10 pm

At least Catholic aren't blowing up KFC's, beating effigies with sandals and killing Danes.

Post by **Sloth** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:01 pm

Yeah except for the few child molesters who slip through the cracks (no pun intended) the Catholics pretty much limit themselves to pushing the limits of human boredom. They are much better than they were even 100 years ago. Reformed like Libya and batting for the home team. Of course I always route for the visitors.

megapulse · Post by **megapulse** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:20 pm

"Honstly this is the perfect book for Americans... non-literary, quasi-mystical, and purporting wild speculation as fact."

exactly.

please, please, go away boring dan brown and the taste of the american public

in all fairness, to dan brown, i only read the first couple of pages after a book trade, my vampires for the religion code and i just wasn't interested.

plus cute like audrey the french girl is now in the movie and she was in a much more interesting movie where she played a psycho-stalker type with a weird love interest. it was fascinating. her with tom hanks, to me, is not.