(I'm on disc 10 or 11 of 14, I'll be done by early next week)

I read Angels and Demons first and must say it was by far the better book. I love how it pits science against religion, especially when the latter gets cast in a bad light. Moahahahahaha! I find the Illuminati stuff intriguing. It's fast-paced and schticky, but I loved it.

Me too.
I read Angels and Demons first after hearing about it time and time again here on one of the top 10 favorite threads.
I loved it and could not put it down.
Then I read Da Vinci thinking it would be much the same but it goes alot slower and is somewhat tedious in places, but I really liked it and learnt alot from it and have read a few other books (non-fiction) just to completely understand what he was talking about.

Digital Fortress is a fast read also.

I found DF to be highly disappointing...perhaps because it was about technology and not art...dunno...there was something about it I didn't like..

Deception Point (I think that's what it's called) isn't bad ...

Still like Angels and Demons best though

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I read «The Da Vinci Code» first and really loved it. I love art and all the surroundings really involved me.

Then I decided I should read «Angels and Deamons» and after I did I got to the conclusion that this one's far more cinematographic than the Code. If I had gotten to the conclusion that the Code was written for film I definitely believe Brown was seeing a movie when he wrote Angels. And it sort of spoiled it for me: when you get to see so many movies as I do you get to know the end way before you should...

Anyways, I liked both of them very much. I couldn't tell which one I liked the most: I loved that in Angels the confrontation between Science and Religion is more soft, you get to hear good points from both sides, which does not happen in the Code - where Religion's attacked without mercy (and right it should, but...).

I think that Brown wrote both of them thinking about making movies out of it. Or perhaps he saw too many movies himself, as some plots are really predictable. I'm not complaining, though. I loved them both!

I finished it yesterday. I was really frustrated at the first half of the book. The last half, I'll admit, picked up a bit but DAMN there's some cliche crap in there!
Pet peeve: when authors say how amazingly astoundingly clever one of their characters was because it's so much like them saying 'I'm so smart!'
There were definately times I was yelling at the characters, for example: "Gosh, we don't have an account number..." YOU MORONS, THERE WAS A NUMBER WRITTEN ON THE FLOOR WHICH HAS BEEN REPEATED A BILLION TIMES - FIGURE IT OUT!!!.
I was also frustrated at how many times they had to go get help instead of figuring things out themselves. How do we get out of the bank? Let the new character do it for us. What do we do with this box? Take it to the new character to explain. Now that we have the clue, where should we go? Let him make the choices again. Ok, he was wrong, now what? Go ask a librarian. We need a person to explain it all and put it in perspective, let's get a new character to do it. Technically, that last one wasn't a new character, but they essentially were. One of the only things they did solo after the beginning was figuring out the final code of Apple but that didn't impress me because that was the one code I figured out instantly!

Will I pick up another Dan Brown book? no. I shall be wary of best-sellers without friend's recommendations from now on.

I also couldn't tell if he was being continuity concious or trying to sell his previous book by mentioning it so often. And why didn't his fear of enclosed spaces ever come into play?

Too bad you didn't like the book, hope you got it from the library and didn't invest hard-earned money for it.
That white out is cool - first time i've seen it.

I listened to it a few months ago at work. It easily amused me while I drafted.

I borrowed it from the library mostly because I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I still don't see what the fuss was about, and I'm glad I didn't pay for it.

I'm interested in reading the Umberto Eco book, though.

The movie to the Da Vinci code is coming out on March 19, 2006. I can't wait. Tom Hanks is going to be in it, I think as Robert Langdon.

huh. tom hanks is not how i picture langdon...

especially as he is described as looking like Harrison Ford.

Havn't read it but I was amused by a documentary on British tv after it became a bestseller over here.

It basically said "In his book, Dan Brown posits theory X... sounds fascinating... BUT IT'S BOLLOCKS - And here's the proof"

"He also says theory Y is true... sounds fascinating... BUT IT'S BOLLOCKS AS WELL - And, you guessed it, here's the proof" etc etc.


Faucalt's Pendulum is all the book about Templars and Grails that you will ever need to read (or I want to)

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especially as he is described as looking like Harrison Ford.

No, you get that wrong... Tom Hanks will only be doing the motion capturing for a fully CGI character based on Harrison Ford. Similarly, Andy Serkis will be putting on the gimp suit again to play the love interest.

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Originally posted by Joe_3heads:
Havn't read it but I was amused by a documentary on British tv after it became a bestseller over here.

It basically said "In his book, Dan Brown posits theory X... sounds fascinating... BUT IT'S BOLLOCKS - And here's the proof"

"He also says theory Y is true... sounds fascinating... BUT IT'S BOLLOCKS AS WELL - And, you guessed it, here's the proof" etc etc.


Faucalt's Pendulum is all the book about Templars and Grails that you will ever need to read (or I want to)

You talking about the Tony Robinson programme?

If so, I did like the bit when they saw 'The Last Supper' and were:

"In his book, Dan Brown posits theory X... sounds fascinating... BUT IT'S......um.......welll....actually, that's kinda creepy....it IS a woman!!"

Whazza? When they said someone looked like a woman, or there was a big letter M (for Magdelene, Mystery and Money Making) in the background or something? I can't remember.

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Whazza? When they said someone looked like a woman, or there was a big letter M (for Magdelene, Mystery and Money Making) in the background or something? I can't remember.

Yeah. Throughout the whole programme he was, like you say, all "Well, Dan says this, lets ask this wise French man...."

Frenchman: "No, it is rubbish."

Tony Robinson: "Well, that settles that then."

But when they get to the paining, they ignored the french man's explination (Frenchman: "No, there is no woman in the picture, it is rubbish.")

It just made me chuckle.


But anyway, I enjoyed the book, and it's easier then having to read 'Holy blood holy...whatnot' which is tedious and quite boring in places.

actually, I have heard quiet a few art experts (no, I can't name them - I'm not into art) say that the character next to jesus in the last supper is either by a different artist (which they then state it isn't) or is a woman.

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Whazza? When they said someone looked like a woman, or there was a big letter M (for Magdelene, Mystery and Money Making) in the background or something? I can't remember.

Yep. In the book when Langdon and Sophie are at Tebings home, he takes them into his study. There, Sophie sees that there are thriteen cups and that one of the people, the one on Jesus's right, is actually a female. Then, between them is the female symbol V. Then Sophie notices an M, which stands for Mary Magdelene.

I just found out the latest on who is playing Silas. It is Paul Bettany from Master and Commander. And here is a link to a trailer of the Da Vinci Code

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/da_vinci_code/medium.html

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