I've been really curious as to what all the big fuss was about. But yeah...Jesus and Mary Magdalene having kids...riiiiiight. Of course Christendom's gonna get all upset, considering the fact that everything they teach is also Scriptural fiction (hello, people, the Trinity?!?!), their parishoners are going to get confused between which fiction is the Church's, and which fiction the Church doesn't want you to credit as their own. And don't even through actual truth at them -- they REALLY freak out then! LOL
So the churchgoers are scratching their heads pondering which fiction to believe, but then when we knock on thier doors with scriptural truth, they don't want to know. LOL
I haven't bothered to read it more because of the author's abilities (or lack thereof) than the subject matter. I read Dan Brown's Deception Point and it was hack writing. Terrible, terrible structure - the real climax came only a third of the way through the book, and the story never regained its previous pace. The sentence and paragraph structure was amateurish, the characterization was half-hearted, the writing in general was melodramatic, and the ending was unsatisfying on almost every level. I can't believe this man's writing is half as popular as it is. Possibly the best comment on his writing I've ever read was a recent NY Times review of the movie, which referred to it as "the screen adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence
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I wasn't to keen on his writing structure either but I thought that was just me. Even though I thought the book was ok I did get the impression that the book was written by a young teenager with limited vocabulary and a thesaurus in his hand, evey now and then out of the blue I would come across some big fancy word which seemed to have been added to show off his language skills, but yet the words around it were as you say amateurish
Here's the review I wrote about 2 years ago....bookyetiMay 22 2006, 21:50:00 UTC
disappointing and over-done After the renowned curator of the Louvre has been found murdered inside the museum, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon teams up with French police cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, to uncover an ancient secret that many are willing to die to protect. Secret societies and baffling ciphers are encountered as they track an intricate trail of clues ingeniously hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. International intrigue and the obligatory danger ensues
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Re: Here's the review I wrote about 2 years ago....diamond_bobMay 23 2006, 13:31:20 UTC
So what's your take on another over hyped book from a few years ago, The Life of Pi? Have you ever read this, if not, don't bother, too much hype and not a good story at all
Re: Here's the review I wrote about 2 years ago....bookyetiMay 23 2006, 15:06:47 UTC
Hmm... Heard about it (A LOT) and based on that, decided not to read it. Lately I seem to avoid books that are over-hyped. I've found they are often disappointing and not worth the paper they're printed on. Only read Da Vinci code at the urging of a friend.
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Heard about it (A LOT) and based on that, decided not to read it. Lately I seem to avoid books that are over-hyped. I've found they are often disappointing and not worth the paper they're printed on. Only read Da Vinci code at the urging of a friend.
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A lot of people are saying if you read the book, you won't like the movie.
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