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You know, I've been reading Dan Brown's other books, and they are all VERY similar. I keep wishing he'd explore a different way of writing. The plot, the romance stories, the mystery, it all just gets old. Obviously Da Vinci is the best of them all, but they are all very similar.
I enjoyed Da Vinci Code very much, and read Digital Fortress after that. I cannot agree with you more liv. Digital Fortress was very similar to Da Vinci Code except with crappier research
As a computer nerd, I was looking forward to seeing how Brown would tackle things that I've been studying.... well he didn't do too well. There were times during my reading of Digital Fortress that I just wanted to throw the book across the room. But that's for another thread I guess.
Anyways, don't know about his previous books, thumbs up for DVC, and thumbs down for Fortress
Fluff surrounded by a few interesting theories. He did decent research on this topic but obviously we're not able to reach any answers. Would much rather read, and suggest for those of you were into the parts of this book that made you think instead of the "thrill" part of the book, Umberto Eco. Foucault's Pendulum was an excellent thought provoking book and I hope to read The Sign of the Rose when I have enough time.
I've read the book and I totally enjoyed it. I think (or I would like to believe) that I'm one of the first among my friends who read the book..lol...And now, everyone's raving about it here. I've read all of Dan Brown's work and by far, The DVC is the best
hmmm, i really liked Da Vinci code, because im jewish... and it disproved christianity! jk it was good nonetheless, the only other one i read was angels and demons, but that was ruined with the pornagraphic scenes at least... it ruined the research part
Lol, it didn't disprove anything.....In my bookstore we clearly have it marked....FICTION.....unfortunately the bible is not...but that's another matter.
Loved all the books! After the code I ran out and got angels and demons ,then Deception Point and digital fortress! such suspense and fast pace. I haven't read all the posts but the last few were complaints about research and whether is is absolutley perfect-quarks and such, isn't what I thought was truly important but the truth of possibilities, and the realm of things that happen everyday that a person as they trudge through each day doesn't even begin to concieve of! You just know there is much truth of what is written in his books.
TTFN
bookbug
ive read them both, and i have to say the whole symbology thing is awesome! and with all that information i feel as though i could write a good long fantasy book about the knights of templar! as for angels and demons, it was excellent except for the fact that it had some pornagraphic scenes that were freaky and unneccesary
isn't what I thought was truly important but the truth of possibilities, and the realm of things that happen everyday that a person as they trudge through each day doesn't even begin to concieve of! You just know there is much truth of what is written in his books.
TTFN
bookbug
Although I like the idea that what we read could be true, I'd be writing nonstop if there was a correlation between ink and truth.
As far as things that we don't begin to conceive of.....Dan Brown is far from the originater of these ideas. Read the Gnostic Gospels or some other related Theology book and you will get the same story. Even before that though, at least a lot of the people my age I know have never really taken the bible to be absolute truth, or even partial truth for some. I dunno....back to Vonnegut.......and you just know Galapagos has to be true, Kurt wrote it
I've just read this book. It took me one day and a half, so I must say that it is a readable and suspenseful book, though it's quite easy to find out who's the bad guy. However, I didn't like this book at all.
Firstly, I enjoy books written by erudites, from which I can get interesting information, like Barbarian in the Garden. Regrettably, there are so many merithorical mistakes in Dan Brown's novel, I simply don't believe the rest, and have neither time, nor desire to check if there is any truth in it.
Factual errors: Jesus and John the Baptist on Madonna of the Rocks picture. It is written in my book on Christian motives in art, that the child with a cross is Saint John and blessing child is Jesus; Langdon explains it the other way round.
There is nothing about Holy Grail in the Bible. It is an idea taken from a medieval arturian legend about the Round Table. Besides, there is nothing surprising in the fact that there are thirteen cups on a table on The Last Supper fresco. The Apostles were said to prepare a room for a supper; it would be weird for them then not to put a cup for each.
Book claims that catholicism introduced patriarchy.
In fact, this was done thousands of years before. Look on customs in judaism, ancient Rome, Greece. Not to mention the fact that some historians even say that there was no matriarchy at all.
Catholic Church says that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. There is a common folk belief that she was, (as well as Mary sister of Martha of Betania) but anyone who has a bit of interest in the Bible knows, that she was a mentally ill (seven evil demons) woman healed by Jesus.
Logical mistakes:
When Sophie is said that one of the Apostles on the Last Supper fresco is in fact Mary Magdalene, she doesn't seem surprised that were it true, then there is obviously one man missing.
There is emphasised that Jesus was a great teacher, and Mary MAgdalene was only to continue His work. It is also said that He was no God, so, I assume that He didn't ressurect either. Wouldn't it be then quite interesting to find His grave? What's more, Jesus is called Christ, even in the sentences which state that He was no Messiah.
All in all, what Brown writes in his book is a pseudo-intellectual rubbish. Well written, but senseless rubbish.
Factual errors: Jesus and John the Baptist on Madonna of the Rocks picture. It is written in my book on Christian motives in art, that the child with a cross is Saint John and blessing child is Jesus; Langdon explains it the other way round.
Isn't this the painting with two versions, the first one (that is described) having been rejected by the church? That's what I recall from the book, but I read it a while ago.
Idun said:
All in all, what Brown writes in his book is a pseudo-intellectual rubbish. Well written, but senseless rubbish.
Or, to be fair, what Brown's characters say in this book is, in your opinion, pseudo-intellectual rubbish. But that's not to say that Dan Brown hasn't written them saying it in a very interesting and exciting way.
Can't wait for the next one, it's about the freemasons!
Somebody dies
Male and female brought in to find the killer
Initial clue starts them off (male has a memory and it solves the clue)
More clues lead them to the Freemasons.
All the while a secret killer is going about (probably has a disability) under the pay of an unknown Higher.
Together, the pair crack the secret of the Freemasons history touching on the past of Christian Rosencreutz.
In the finale, it wasn't the Freemasons to blame but a bitter individual.
Jeez, I should write for Brown but he's written the one plot formula that'll last him until the end of his career.
Yes, it is. One is in London National Gallery (the one accepted by the Church), second in Louvre. Nevertheless, the number of the portrayed children doesn't change.
Er, no. Should I have used an icon to signify that?
Fair enough, you're a Brown-basher, but speaking as someone who has read all his books, I can honestly say that he has improved. Maybe his plots are samey, but his novels are progressively more enjoyable, so as someone who does not exclusively read high brow literature I am looking forward to the next one.
at least... it ruined the research part 
