Oh My God, You Look Like a Frog!

[spectralbovine]

So I finally read the fucking Da Vinci Code.

And you know what? I enjoyed it.

My earliest recollection of being exposed to the book was Melanie's recommendation three years ago. She loved it; I don't know if it had become immensely popular by then.

Now, she loved it. Nearly everyone else I knew who spoke of the book in the next three years hated

Comments

[dachelle]

I was just about to say that the reason I haven't read The Da Vinci Code is that I read Foucault's Pendulum, and everything I've heard about DVC makes me think it's a poor man's version of FP, so why exactly would I need to read it?

Having said that, I'll probably go see the movie, though. It looks like a fun matinee, popcorn, and mocking time.

[sjester]

Yeah, I'll probably see the movie eventually, because, Ian McKellen. I will watch anything if he's in it. Heck, I'll watch paint drying provided he's standing in front of the wall with the drying paint.

[alannaofdoom]

Ditto to Paul Bettany. Even as an insane self-flagellating albino monk (and, really, why is he albino, Dan Brown? Because it makes him "creepier" or something? Thanks, buddy), I love me some Paul Bettany.

Wait, that's a dangling participle, right? Except without the participle? Whatever, reverse those two clauses and it's a better sentence.

...what if Ian McKellan was standing just to the left of the newly-painted wall?

[sjester]

It really doesn't matter where Ian McKellen is in relation to the newly-painted wall. He could even be standing behind it, so long as he is reading the catalog of ships so that I can hear him.

And speaking of Paul Bettany, have you seen The Reckoning? It's so, so good. We watched it for a Medieval Studies Students Association movie night, and we were actually at a loss to mock it, so good is this movie. So if you haven't seen The Reckoning, go, go now.