Rogue

I haven't found this thread here yet and I hope it is in the right category but have any of you read The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown ? I read it a month ago and I am still thinking about it. This whole thing about the Holy Grail and what it is supposed to be is quite interesting.
Have any of you read it ?
And at the moment I am reading Angels and Demons also by Dan Brown also about the Vatican and religion but much more fictional although there are interesting facts.
Anyone read that one ?

DizzyDee

I've read both books - and his two other books as well, which are very entertaining but don't have as much of a religious bent to them. I very much enjoyed both the Di Vinci Code and Angels & Demons - haven't done much research into the validity of the theories he based he books on - but it's a great read and does make you think.

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}SoC{Sumguy

ive read part of it. one must take into account that it is fiction, though. apperantly there is a cult based on it. a cult, based on a book of fiction. it'd be funny if it werent so sad.

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nanners86

I have read The DaVinci Code but I have yet to read Angles and Deamons. Is it good?

nanners86

I agree with you, it is a work of fiction, however some people see the Bible as in the same light. I as an English major see the Bible as apocalyptic literature.

}SoC{Sumguy

ah, but the Bible had many authors, all saying it was true, whereas the Da Vinci Code has one author, who says it is fake.

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and you know that there's a place
in the sun, for all that you've done.
For you and your children.
You always wanted to beleive.
Just ask and you'll receive,
beyond your wildest dreams.
And you already know how this will end...."

nanners86

It was men that said it was true. DaVinci Code is actually creative nonfiction, meaning it is based on certain truths (facts)and the story line is fake: like Titanic. There is a vast amount of truth in the book, but the characters are fake. Ya know what I mean?

Grant

The truths the book is based on aren't valid though. Somewhere in the gnostic gospels, which were written in the 2nd century, it said "jesus kissed mary magdalene on the *damaged symbol* blah blah". now, IF it said lips, that would mean they MIGHT have been married which MIGHT mean they had a kid... so many huge stretches... sex inside of marriage isn't a sin in the first place. ill write a more in-depth comment later if you guys want me to but i gotta get to bed for now.

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Rogue

What she said! Dan Brown did very thorough research but also put fictional twist to the whole story.

Angels & Demons is great. I finished it last night. If you like the Da Vinci Code then you will also like this book!! It is again with Robert Langdon and about a murderd man with a symbol on his chest and again about the Vatican and religion but still a whole different story and that is why it's so great

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The Da Vinci Code

Lyricb

The Davinci code was a good book, riveting and entertaining. I'm still mystified as to why everyone freaked out about it.