No escapist reading here.
I Have been reading a lot of Dan Brown.
Point Deception, Digital fortress, Angels and Demons
and curently The Da Vinci code.
Well written historical fiction? Oh yeah!
Well researched concepts? Definitly!
Ambigrams in Angels and Demons were incredible.
This is not escapist reading! This is fuel for thought.
This is putting Karl Jung's Man and His Symbols in a
highly possible and believable context.
The mention of the Illuminati has surfaced many times
in my reading over the years and has always been a
fascinating concept. The Renaissance still holds secrets.
Whether or not these secrets are revealed in the Vatican
Archives or not is anyone's guess. But if not there. then where?
*Personal note on the Dan Brown plagarism controversy.
I have read thousands of works of historical fiction
over the span of my life. My own prediliction takes me
towards the mystical. It would suprise me greatly to know
that there were more than 200 themes in all that reading.
When writing about historical figures in an historical
context, documented history gives rise to conjecture and
that conjecture gives rise to further conjecture and so a
body of thought evolves. It works this way in Anthropology,
Archeology and in the physical sciences. Someone builds upon the
work of others. The only thing necessary should be acknowledgement.
Point Deception, Digital fortress, Angels and Demons
and curently The Da Vinci code.
Well written historical fiction? Oh yeah!
Well researched concepts? Definitly!
Ambigrams in Angels and Demons were incredible.
This is not escapist reading! This is fuel for thought.
This is putting Karl Jung's Man and His Symbols in a
highly possible and believable context.
The mention of the Illuminati has surfaced many times
in my reading over the years and has always been a
fascinating concept. The Renaissance still holds secrets.
Whether or not these secrets are revealed in the Vatican
Archives or not is anyone's guess. But if not there. then where?
*Personal note on the Dan Brown plagarism controversy.
I have read thousands of works of historical fiction
over the span of my life. My own prediliction takes me
towards the mystical. It would suprise me greatly to know
that there were more than 200 themes in all that reading.
When writing about historical figures in an historical
context, documented history gives rise to conjecture and
that conjecture gives rise to further conjecture and so a
body of thought evolves. It works this way in Anthropology,
Archeology and in the physical sciences. Someone builds upon the
work of others. The only thing necessary should be acknowledgement.