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No I think you are right. It is a gripping story (I loved all these conspiracy theories) but the characters have a lot of flaws. I bought the book "Holy Grail, Holy Blood" afterwards, but it was dissapointing and absolutley dull.
 
But Dan Brown didn’t convince me when it came to Mary Magdalene having given birth to Jesus Christ’ child and everything that had to do with it. It all sounded so absurd.
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He wasn't trying to convince you. It's fiction and I think people keep forgetting that because it's gotten all tied up in the religious and political implications.

Cathy
9 out of 10 penguins like fiction!
 
Cathy C said:
He wasn't trying to convince you. It's fiction and I think people keep forgetting that because it's gotten all tied up in the religious and political implications.

Cathy
9 out of 10 penguins like fiction!
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Good fiction's primary job is to create a believable world, even if it's pure fantasy. If someone says they weren't "convinced" by fiction, I take that as a legitimate complaint about the author's storytelling skill.
 
Some unfortunate people have a difficult time distinguishing between real life and fiction. For example, remember the Beverly Hillbillies? There was a real mansion used for the shot of their mansion and you wouldn't believe the number of people that rang the doorbell asking the people that lived there where were Ellie-Mae and Granny. It got so bad that the owners of the property asked that the show stop using the shot of their mansion. I've seen religious television shows go on and on about The Da Vinci Code and I just want to scream. IT'S JUST FICTION!! Believable, yes, but not FACT. I just read Laurell K. Hamilton's Guilty Pleasures. A vampire story. In my opinion, a believable world, but that doesn't mean I actually believe that St. Louis is overrun with vampires, zombies and ghouls!

Oh, almost forgot. I am currently reading Blood From a Stone: The Quest for the Life Diamonds by Yaron Svoray and Richard Hammer. Just finished Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country. Good book, would have been better if it was a wee bit shorter.
 
Gizmo said:
I love The Da Vinci Code and I'm pretty curious to know we others don't like it. I promise I won't try to convince of it's brilliance! ;)
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I found it to be intriguing in the beginning, but then it just turned into a 'run-of-the-mill' trashy thriller...Of course, the sheer popularity of it should have told me this before I read it...

Oh...by the by...I noticed you live in Salzburg...WOW! What a city! Apart from Taipei (where I live), I think Salzburg has the most beautiful ladies in the world - it certainly beats NYC, Boston, London and Paris...
 
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I'm new here, and I thought this were a good place to start.

I'm currently reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
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Hi there and welcome :)

I really liked The Lovely Bones How are you finding it?
 
SillyWabbit said:
I really liked The Lovely Bones How are you finding it?
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Roar. I can't even start to explain my feelings towards this book. It's so great, and I don't want to finish it. Therefor I have partly ended the reading of the book, and started another one, while I ponder eventual endings to the Lovely Bones. I am such a freak.
 
lol I'm a bigger freak than you :p

I once never finished a book because I thought the two lovers at the end of the book were going to die and all the time I never finished the book they would be together. That's sappy :eek:

I'm not saying what book it is because I just know somebody is going to tell me the end :p But it was by a very famous writer.
 
somewhat said:
I'm new here, and I thought this were a good place to start.

I'm currently reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
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I loved the Lovely Bones. One of my favs. Welcome to the board.
 
I enjoyed reading "The Lovely Bones" too, but there was something about the ending, which I didn't approve of...
but that's my opinion. :)
 
Well, I've started Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and am about up to page 230. Someone PLEASE tell me that it gets better. It's dragging like a wooden leg so far! :(

Cathy
 
I just finished The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Pankhurst. It was a very quick read, fairly enjoyable, but a little bit sad.

I'm thinking about starting either The Crimson Petal and the White or East of Eden soon - I'm on my first day of a 9-day vacation, so I want to cuddle up with a good, long book and read until my heart's content. :)
 
"The Lovely Bones" :----

the book was ok. i would give it 2 stars out of 5. maybe it was because it was not fit to my temper/mood at the time i was reading.

i did not find the ending was pleasant. as i was reading through the book, i stuck to the hope that the murderer got caughted finally, till my instinct telling me that the authour would surely not write in that way. on the other hand, i thought it should be ended like that. good people always wish to have the murders, kidnappers, killers caught, sentenced, and sent to the prison. then they can exhale a great relief. but in reality/ in this real world, there are murderers, kidnappers, killers still at large. it is more realistic.

it might be silly to be too idealistic. :(

umm, i didn't give away too much information, did I :eek: ?
 
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