The Da Vinci Code

[poliphilo]

They say the Da Vinci Code is badly written. That's enough to put me off. Life is too short.

But what really gets me is that people are reacting as if this stuff about The Priory of Sion and Mary Magdalen and Rennes Le Chateau were new and shocking. It isn't. It's all there in the 1982 non-fiction best-seller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which is still in print. Also it's all over the Net. What sheltered lives some people must lead!

Also, if Brown had researched properly- instead of just reading The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail- he'd have known that the Priory of Sion has long since been revealed as a hoax. I'll admit I didn't know that myself before last night (when Channel 4 revealed all) but if I'd been proposing to put the Priory at the centre of a novel I'd have made damn sure I found out all I could about it before I went ahead and committed myself.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. I suspect the guy is lying.

The Priory of Zion turns out to be a hoax perpetrated by three off the wall Frenchmen in the 1950s. They weren't about black magic, but about restoring the Merovingian dynasty. So whatever this group is that your friend has contacted I imagine it has just "borrowed" the name.

[geodesus-christ.livejournal.com]

yeah I don't think the guy ever mentioned the grail, actually.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There is so much bullshitting in the occult world. There are genuine magicians out there (I may even have met one once) but most are self-publicising wannabes.

And even the genuine ones go in for a certain amount of flim-flam.

[geodesus-christ.livejournal.com]

My friend says every single person he's met is in it for the ego trip!