Dan Brown has stated in public interviews his reliance on the ideas in the so called but vastly debunked "non-fiction" book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The real problem with that apparent court case is HB,HGs insistance on being a piece of scholarship and Dan Brown insisting...kind of...that he wrote a thriller novel and therefore fiction. If it's research, unless there's some blatant plagiarism, Mr. Brown shouldn't be liable.
Re: actuallyroseforhirexFebruary 28 2006, 14:31:20 UTC
I didn't find anything like that, but regardless, they're still trying to boost sales of their book. His is very much fiction, he did research, but all fiction writers do. The claims they're making make my brain hurt cause they don't seem to have thought out their lawsuit well.
Re: actuallyvash1228February 28 2006, 15:17:29 UTC
I probably seem less suprised knowing the history of HB,HG.
The authors are also a little odd in the first palce. It could be sales (they did get a boost after Dan Brown's book came out, though, because he and scholars refuting Brown's propositions kept mentioning it in interviews). Knowing the authors history, it could be some kind of pride or personal attention thing too.
That book really ... criminey. I never have the words. It would make me upset if I could take it seriously.
But yes, a nf suing a f book is pretty darn silly.
See? My very point. And please tell me, the book has been out *how* long? And just now when there's a movie deal and the potential to make tons of money they speak up?? Come on. It's not like it was some little manuscript lurking in the stacks that some oddball director found and said, "Hey, Tom and I could do this!" It was on the f#@%ing *Best Seller List* almost since it came out. I'm a tads irritated. *grin*
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The real problem with that apparent court case is HB,HGs insistance on being a piece of scholarship and Dan Brown insisting...kind of...that he wrote a thriller novel and therefore fiction. If it's research, unless there's some blatant plagiarism, Mr. Brown shouldn't be liable.
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The authors are also a little odd in the first palce. It could be sales (they did get a boost after Dan Brown's book came out, though, because he and scholars refuting Brown's propositions kept mentioning it in interviews). Knowing the authors history, it could be some kind of pride or personal attention thing too.
That book really ... criminey. I never have the words. It would make me upset if I could take it seriously.
But yes, a nf suing a f book is pretty darn silly.
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It's on this Amazon Replace Dan Brown list. :D
Just pointing out that he's not that original. But working in a bookstore I already knew that.
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