Shevers on 22/5/2006 at 15:49
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
For the record, I've read both Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code (in that order) and found the former to be an enjoyable enough page-turner that devolved into complete retardation in the third act, and found the latter to be a carbon copy of the other except vatican-illuminati plot was replaced by jesus-prioryofzion. The plot devices are indentical, even down to the nature of the murder that involves Dr <strike>Jones</strike> Langdon meeting the close relative of the victim, who in both cases is a female expert in the field relevant to the plot of the book, similarly with the creepy murderer going about who is in turn manipulated by a third party, etc etc.
Exactly what I noticed. I read Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code in that order almost 2 years ago, but
then I read Deception Point (Gasp!). And they are all the same book with different subject matter. I liked the books back then, maybe because I'm a sucker for twists, but by the end of Deception Point I finally realised what a godawful author he is.
Really you have to read more than one to appreciate how bad they are.
SD on 22/5/2006 at 15:53
Quote Posted by OnionBob
If you're being serious, then my god, you are even more of a phenomenal idiot than I've ever imagined.
fucks sake bob :nono:
Headphones on 22/5/2006 at 15:57
Quote Posted by fett
I'm sure Dan Brown is a nice guy, but he tends to come off as a smug pseudo-intellectual
this thread was worth it after all!
haha
OnionBob on 22/5/2006 at 16:03
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
fucks sake bob :nono:
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Spiders on 22/5/2006 at 16:20
I read Angels & Demons after I read The Da Vinci Code, and I, too, noticed right off the bat that both books were identical. Far as I could figure out, the setting was a bit different and the characters had different names, but almost everything else was exactly the same.
In fact, once I started noticing how the plots were being recycled, I solved the entire mystery before getting halfway through the book. The biggest twist Dan Brown throws out in either book is the identity of "the teacher" character (the puppeteering arch-villain behind everything). Once I realized the character "templates" were identical between the books, I figured the villain, who in The Da Vinci Code was a nice, elderly, crippled friend of Langdon's, must also in Angels & Demons be a nice, elderly, crippled friend of Langdon's.
I was absolutely right, as it turned out. :erg:
Printer's Devil on 22/5/2006 at 17:15
Quote Posted by Malygris
I have a pretty basic question about all this, which maybe has been addressed elsewhere and I just haven't been paying enough attention. Since the Da Vinci Code is a novel - a work of fiction - what the fuck is the big deal? Why is there such a furor over this? I don't think the author has ever purported his book to be anything more than a story about some shit he made up, so why are the Catholic church and various other religious groups around the world reacting in such a wholly spaztastic manner? I didn't notice the American Astronomical Society shitting a turnip when Star Wars came out, and by all reports it's a much better movie.
Think of it as copyright infringement. George Lucas gets pretty upset when people produce Star Wars media without his explicit approval. The same goes for the Catty Church.
Starrfall on 22/5/2006 at 17:31
Quote Posted by Printer's Devil
or
The Da Vinci Load starring Wanks and Tittou?
Dude you're mixing it up with The Da Vinci Chode
thefonz on 22/5/2006 at 17:52
Quote Posted by Starrfall
Dude you're mixing it up with The Da Vinci Chode
Now that right there is a good movie...
Mr.Duck on 22/5/2006 at 18:04
THE POWER OF MARY MAGDALENE COMPELLS YOU!
No...just doesn't have the same ring to it...
Fun movie, though.
rachel on 22/5/2006 at 18:16
Quote Posted by Malygris
I don't think the author has ever purported his book to be anything more than a story about some shit he made up, so why are the Catholic church and various other religious groups around the world reacting in such a wholly spaztastic manner?
Well actually he kind of does, since he says as an introduction that (don't have the book here, so I don't remember the exact wording) all organizations and documents presented in the book are real and this sort of implies that omg teh conspiracy si true.
I liked the book enough to consider it average at best. The writing is simplistic and not very good, and nowhere near as captivating as Eco's
Pendulum of Foucault, which really takes you in the character's fantasy and leaves you dizzy every time.
Then again I'm biased.
Foucault is my favourite book, I read it a dozen times or so. ;)
