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

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail got me through flu once, but I've avoided The Da Vinci Code so far. Is it fiction? (Well, obviously it's fiction, but is it 'and then Joseph and I found ourselves inexplicably escorted out of the ruins by an angry man in a fez, who had clearly been suborned by the Shadowy Elders' or is it 'Joseph's heart beat faster as he saw the angry man in the fez below them at the entrance to the ruins'?)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

It's a bad mainstream thriller, so not really either of the above.