[lit-ideas] Re: Da Vinci Code

I love how you say you read it on the plane and Eye Magazine in Toronto 
(www.eye.net) refers to the book as "Dan Brown's airport-lit phenomenon".  


The "Eye" review of the movie is here:



http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.18.06/film/onscreenexclusive.html



I entertained the notion of going to see it, but decided that "X-Men" would be 
a better pick.


At work with no way home (TTC strike)
Erin
Toronto
(withholding profanities directed at transit (cough) union)





Quoting Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Okay, I'm back from India. Nice place. I'll write more about it later.
> 
> On the flight, I read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (DVC), along with several
> other books. DVC 
> is a thriller, with a bit of anagrams and puzzles included, set in Paris, and
> decorated with 
> various famous paintings. It's basically Harry Potter for adults.
> 
> If you know Paris fairly well, or you know a bit of art history or the
> history of European 
> religion, you'll wonder at the stuff in the DVC. Despite Brown's claims of
> "meticulous 
> research", the book is a hodge-podge of American middle-brow expectations
> about academics 
> and Europeans. Once you catch a few errors, you wonder about the rest of the
> book.
> 
> I don't think DVC is a threat to the Catholic Church, any more than Mario
> Puzo's book was a 
> threat to the Mafia.
> 
> Has anyone else read the book? Or seen the movie?
> 
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
> 
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