The final word on the Da Vinci Code

[lagizma]

Once you are done reading this, you can say to anyone in the world, "Oh, I already heard about this from Miss LaGizma, and the issue is just dead to me now. How about that new Guns N' Roses album?"

Given that this is how the book opens:

The Priory of Sion-a European secret society founded in 1099-is a real organization. In 1975, Paris's

Comments

[helpimarock]

I totally agree that Dan Brown takes bits and pieces of history and then warps them into grand conspiracies that have little or no basis in reality. Clive Cussler does the same thing with the Dirk Pitt series of novels, but of course he freely admits that it's all fantasy. Whereas Brown doesn't which makes him a dick

[lagizma]

Absolutely! The Romans stole a lot of Pagan stuff (like A LOT) and made it their own to sell their new religion. That I don't dispute. In fact, it irritates me when people say Easter is a Christian holiday, because it is so blatantly Pagan.

[estranged_rose]

[antarcticlust]

A lot of people think the Church is upset about the franchise because of the truthfulness of the book- in fact, they're upset because people are believing the UNtruthfulness. Earnestness should not be mistaken for guilt.

[asfyxia]

I agree 100 percent with you with "My issue with the reading world at large."

Hrm. I think people should put down the television channel off of sitcoms, turn into the news, and read a book. Sometimes I think the American population has no shame in being ignorant about such affairs. I mean, why read War and Peace when you can see who sleeps with Britney on Tuesday night.

[autumnhawk]

I agree that the popular reading masses are irritating in the way they fixate on a book completely out of context of other books. It's really only to be expected though. A book's only going to sell tens of millions of copies if it's being successfully marketed to the non-reading or light-reading crowd. These people only read something if it's already really popular