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]

I've got a pile that includes Jane Austen, R.L Stevenson, Holzer and some books I'm meant to be reviewing.

The review books somehow always seem to be at the bottom.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I read for entertainment...it was only after I finished the DaVinci Code I found out his facts were incorrect.

Here's an interesting tidbit. Our local libary had a 'book discussion' about the DaVinci code. Six people were 'escorted out'.

I didn't think it was poorly written...I just looked at it as another story - like the Harry Potter books.

Only, now that you point it out, not as much fun to read.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They were "escorted out"?

Did they start a riot or something?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Not a riot. They just stood up and started shouting over the people who were trying to discuss the book that it was a bunch of nonsense, it was blasphemy..you know the type.

Seems kind of silly....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, yes- indeed I do.