Books - The Davinci Code - Page 5

**BehrItAll** · 02-03-2004, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by ROCKSTAR:


I must confess I didn't like the ending. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

ohh, how come?

**n e r b l e** · 02-04-2004, 01:24 PM

you know, after i read the book i tried to discuss it w/ christian friends and was met with stoney silence. i'm not an athiest or even an agnostic, but at least i can read things and not discard them out of hand.

**BehrItAll** · 02-05-2004, 06:54 PM

n e r b l e, that's unfortunate.
I actually had the opposite experience. I was talking to a family friend who is a religous fanatic and Roman Catholic, and he thought the book was great.

happy_sam · 02-11-2004, 01:51 AM

I read the book in two days. It's very fast-paced and I like it! The possibilities are very interesting, yet freaky, in a sense that I'm a devout Christian and it makes me question a lot of things about it now. I know this is a stupid question and it's already stated that it's a fiction book, but is it real? The paintings, I mean?

**BehrItAll** · 02-11-2004, 11:47 PM

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 I know this is a stupid question and it's already stated that it's a fiction book, but is it real? The paintings, I mean?

The paintings are real. While I was reading the book I looked up the paintings in a DaVinci art book I have and everything was accurate.

happy_sam · 02-12-2004, 10:58 AM

oh really? the paintings are for real? wow. i'll go check...

happy_sam · 02-13-2004, 01:27 AM

I looked for Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper in the Internet and the descriptions are really true. Yikes. That's so scary and brilliant at the same time...

**BehrItAll** · 02-13-2004, 11:37 PM

It is. When I was reading the part about the Madonna of the Rocks and I looked it up and saw what he said in the book was actaully fact I was a lil freaked out..and then I also was really examining The Last Supper as I was reading.

Doublestuf · 02-21-2004, 01:02 PM

Let me echo the "love this book" sentiment. I'm a student at a seminary at this book is the hot topic. It flies off ouy bookstore shelves. I stayed up all night reading it and looking up paintings on the net. I have to sit down and reread it sometime soon because I'm sure I missed some good stuff given that I finished it at 5am.

Love Brown's use of the gnostic gospels, though he wasn't quite accurate on some of his info. I can forgive, though, given the overall greatness of this book.

supergirlhero · 02-28-2004, 10:24 PM

The stuff about the paintings are true. And all that stuff about the interiors of the Louvre as well.

- Sudy - · 03-02-2004, 02:39 PM

I read this book last year and i'm totally in love with it. Everthing was fast paced and excellent and I became so engrossed in the book that I finished it in half a day. I've never read a book that I feel I can recommend to another person, but this book is an exception. I already lended it to two people and currently my spanish teacher is reading my copy. I just loved this book and I'm sure that I won't be the only one.

Just recently, I finally bought a copy of Angels and Demons. I can only say good things about this book. I was not disappointed at all in Dan Brown's work. Whatever elements captivated me in The Davinci Code is also present in this novel. Since this is the prequel to Davinci, we see more of Robert Langdon. Although, i'll admit that there are similarities between both novels because it involves Robert being called for aid by an important person and a mysterious killer reminiscent of the one in Davinci, the subjects in both stories are completely different that it doesn't even matter that there are similarities. Of the two, I do not have a favorite, they are both unbelievably excellent.

**ROCKSTAR** · 03-02-2004, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by Just Push Play:


ohh, how come?

I thought it too bvious. I kinda saw it coming.

The same with the "master"/"teacher/Teabing" the SECOND he Landgon said, "I know a place" and then he went to see Teabing I knew he was the "mystery" character. There was something about the line, "I waited all my life to be involved" that was so telling.

And I also thought Sophie's horror of seeing "something so horrible she wanted to forget" aka, her grandpa having wild sex on that ceremony was overplayed. I mean, wasn't it obvious what she had seen?

But hey, DB did a great job, this is me nitpicking after having read a great fiction book. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

**BehrItAll** · 03-02-2004, 06:22 PM

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Originally posted by ROCKSTAR:

The same with the "master"/"teacher/Teabing" the SECOND he Landgon said, "I know a place" and then he went to see Teabing I knew he was the "mystery" character. There was something about the line, "I waited all my life to be involved" that was so telling.

And I also thought Sophie's horror of seeing "something so horrible she wanted to forget" aka, her grandpa having wild sex on that ceremony was overplayed. I mean, wasn't it obvious what she had seen?

S * P * O * L * I * E * R

Sophie's horror, I saw that coming whole time, but the "teacher/Teabing" thing I didn't figure out till he took them to the wrong church in England.
Just the way everything came together at the end and the pace, I thought was great. At that point I really could not put the book down.

supergirlhero · 03-02-2004, 08:15 PM

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Just recently, I finally bought a copy of Angels and Demons. I can only say good things about this book. I was not disappointed at all in Dan Brown's work.

I agree. I have four of his books, and TDVC and AAD are definitely the best. Though I'm sorry to say that Deception Point was the worst of the lot. Digital Fortress is also good, and very relevant especially for us net addicts [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

03-07-2004, 09:16 PM

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Originally posted by ROCKSTAR:
And I also thought Sophie's horror of seeing "something so horrible she wanted to forget" aka, her grandpa having wild sex on that ceremony was overplayed. I mean, wasn't it obvious what she had seen?

At first it wasn't obvious to me. I initially thought she saw a dead child or person in the middle of the circle and her grandpop doing something weird to them. Something to do with a dead body, call me crazy but that was my hunch. Then later, after all the references to man & woman coming together yada, yada, yada, it hit me that she saw her grandpop doing it, which really isn't as 'horrible' as it was made out to be.

And honestly, I can understand her being mortified and admittedly freaked out (with the whole ritual thing and people watching), but not enough to shun her grandfather for 10 years over it. Old people have needs too. I'd have never brought it up, or let him know I was there. Keeping secrets is one thing to get mad over, but that's not a secret she had a right to know.

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