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Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

raffaellabella said:
If you read through the entire thread you'll see that people have been specific about what they don't like about the book.
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Did I say I was referring to this particular thread? I'm taking about the comments that have been made in general. Oh, and saying that you don't like The Da Vinci Code simply because it is "badly written" isn't being specific. :rolleyes: It just sounds as though you are following those who say it is "badly written" and can actually come up with specific examples.
 
Yet more TDVC publicity in the news. I guess the Opus Dei folks resent being portrayed as a secretive, rogue, murderous, legion.

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The conservative religious group Opus Dei has asked for a disclaimer on the upcoming film based on the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code."

Opus Dei, portrayed as a murderous, power-hungry sect in the novel by Dan Brown, wrote in an April 6 letter to Sony Corp. (SNE) that a disclaimer would show respect to Jesus and to the Catholic Church.

"Any such decision by Sony would be a gesture of respect toward the figure of Jesus, to the history of the Church and to the religious beliefs of viewers," Opus Dei wrote in the letter, which was posted on its Italian Web site.
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Another letter was delivered that stated: "...or else.":D :D :D :D
 
Yet more in case you feel Dan Brown hasn't received enough press attention.

Archbishop decries DaVinci Code obsession.

In a strongly worded Easter sermon being delivered in Canterbury Cathedral this morning, Dr Rowan Williams says that there is a tendency to treat Biblical texts "as if they were unconvincing press releases from some official source, whose intention is to conceal the real story". Fascination with "bringing secrets to light", he said, evoked All the President's Men, the 1976 film about the investigative journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who exposed the Watergate scandal.

"We have become so suspicious of the power of words. . . the first assumption we make is that we're faced with spin of some kind, with an agenda being forced on us. So that the modern response to the proclamation, 'Christ is risen!' is likely to be, 'Ah, but you would say that, wouldn't you? Now, what's the real agenda?' "
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Touche?
 
I had a brief visit to a hospital over this recent glorious weekend and, growing bored, started asking around for a book to read. No luck on the book, but the several people I asked all asked me in return if I had read DVC and what I thought of it. I was flabbergasted that the book is so well known out among people at large, as well as in these particular haunts. I would offer the very unscientific observation that the last time any book received such nearly universal notice it was Lolita!
And, depending on one's opinion of DVC, that may be rather an appalling thought.
/arrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh/
The new greatest book and author of the 21st Century?
Toes!
Peder
 
Peder said:
I had a brief visit to a hospital over this recent glorious weekend and, growing bored, started asking around for a book to read. No luck on the book, but the several people I asked all asked me in return if I had read DVC and what I thought of it.
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You should have pulled the plug on their life support.
 
abecedarian said:
Maybe, but I have a feeling Peder was not asking patients for reading material..I'm afraid these were the wardens:eek:
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ABC,
Actually so. But I really also got the feeling that the book has become an 'item', that people unashamedly talk and ask about it without having actually read it. It's just amazing!
Maybe we'll have to keep "Greatest Book and Author" open a little longer, and keep DVC temporarily in second place for the Century, until the situation clarifies a little. :rolleyes:
Peder
 
raffaellabella said:
I feel your pain, Peder. Really, I do.
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Raffaellabella,
It's bigger than both of us! :D
The more I think about it the more staggering it seems. One can only stand and gape at what has to be called a phenomenon.

Having typed that, I decided to find sales figures with google, if I could. The following wikipedia article says DVC has sold 40 million copies as of 2006. Boinnnng!

DanBrown

That definitely puts it in the big leagues. Slotted in with the other figures I remember from a previous look at mammoth-best-seller sales, the rankings are now seemingly (from memory)

Lolita - 50 million
DaVinci Code - 40 million
Valley of the Dolls - 30 million
Gone With the Wind - 28 million

Them's not small potatos! So it can't be surprising that Dan Brown/DVC threads excite as many contributions as they do. Can the #1 position for DVC be long off? Wouldn't bet against it.

History hurtles towards its destiny, /Oh that is so bad, but fitting somehow :D/
Me, oh, my!
Peder
 
Yeah 40 million and with the recent trade, illustrated softcover and mass market there are 5 million more in print.

On a side note, we had some copies of Deception Point that were strip covered at work today. I took it up myself to rip the books in half. Something quite satisfying in breaking the spine of a Dan Brown book.
 
Curses! You guys REALLY hafta start Warning Me about these funnies, as I may have to end up buying a new monitor! Danged Coffee! :rolleyes:

:D

:p
 
raffaellabella said:
Someone needs to splain toes to me! I feel so confused, and I may want to use it some time.
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It's an elaboration and then contraction of the old juvenile phrase popular among kids long ago (in Brooklyn), namely "Drop dead!" In my neighborhood the poets among us eventually grew that up into "Drop down dead three times flat," which us aspiring literates would abbreviate to DDDTTF. Over on Nabokov, staggering admiration and awe at someone's discovery of a relevant citation would occasionally lead to an announcement something like "You knock me down dead on the floor flat on my back with my toes pointed up." And then, once StillILearn provided the picture of someone in exactly that position, with only toes showing, the simple abbreviation "Toes!" began to gain currency for the whole concept of being dead on one's back with toes up. Ya hadda be there :) and we have a nabokov decoder ring also. j/k j/k
So "Toes" is something like "ROTFLOL" but for a different emotion, awe instead of amusement.
A source of innocent merriment, :)
Peder
 
There it is!
It all appeared while I was typing!
Ya have to be fast to beat those Nabokovians! :)
 
I seem to remember Peder typing from the floor with his toes at a certain point. :D On accounta falling there from shock. :eek:
 
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