September Books 2) The Da Vinci Code

[nwhyte]

2) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

Hmm. The roots of this book are pretty obvious. Some of the basic plot lines have been done much better elsewhere. For instance: Young woman who has been educated in cryptography - Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Dubious proceedings involving a plane flight from France to London - Agatha Christie's Death in

Comments

[thishardenedarm]

people, us proles, always like the feeling that we've been shown a glimpse of the mysteries/doctrines behind the exoteric veils. initiation without the pain.

[torquemadman]

"Vinci" was like one long non-interactive adventure game: you wander around, pick up things, apply them on other things, solve puzzle, get more things, rinse, repeat. Wouldn't mind playing it, reading it was really boring. What kept me on was curiousity whether I pinpointed the bad guy (on his first appearance) right and if the plot would go just the way I thought it would. Was correct on both terms.
I'm guilty trying his other book too, "Angels and Demons" -- it was too amusing to discover it was exact clone of "Da Vinci".

[marykaykare]

Half-baked ancient lore combined with bad guys who are masters of disguise and preposterous conspiracies - Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, or alternately any episode of Scooby Doo.

This made me actually laugh out loud. On a day wherein I am notably deficient in --- arrrgh -- the word is gone: those brain chemicals that make you feel good. Dammed nominal aphasia. Anyway I'm deficient in them today and laughing helps up the supply. So thanks.

MKK

[marykaykare]

Endophins that's the ticket! I remembered the word as soon as I shut down the computer. Of course.

MKK

It serves 2 functions

[applez]

1. It is the literary version of bubblegum pop music

2. It is sufficiently vapid to make excellent poolside reading, where water and lotion stains are not a problem. I'd like to think these millions of copies worldwide are being left in hotel drawers, right beside the Gideon Bibles. ;-)

My review from some time ago

[applez]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/applez/366816.html