The DaVinci Code

[inulro]

Seeing as I'm still awake:

I finally started to read it this week. It's bad - the prose is awful & very amateurish (except I know lots of amateurs who can structure much nicer sentences). I could write a book on the factual inaccuracies[1]. It is almost funny, but not quite. It is definitely the version for people who couldn't get through either Foucault's Pendulum (which actually *is* funny, and is making fun of people who believe this stuff) or Holy Blood & the Holy Grail (which is tosh, but has the advantage of being very well written tosh).

Yet I can't stop reading it. It's very compelling crap.

[1] The truly offensive one is the "Fact" about the Priory of Sion in the introduction. The document is indeed in the Bibliotheque Nationale, but scholars agree it's a hoax.

Comments

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I quite enjoyed it. Its definitely an easy read, in that it doesnt take any concentration to read it. I dont know how accurate it is but it is fiction and is not meant to be accurate. Though apparently lots of people have believed what he wrote is all true.

I'm just finishing Digital Fortress at the moment and that is very silly and a lot of the computer stuff is not accurate but its still compelling.