Re: The Da Vinci Code
Steve Hayes
wrote:
>Knights Templar; Hiram Key; da Vinci Code
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qumran_origin/message/2560
>
>"We come right up to date with Dan Brown�s The Da Vinci Code,
>published this year. I�ve only just obtained it and have been reading
>it over the past couple of days. Its great merit is that it purports
>to be a work of fiction only, and may even be useful by showing that
>the fantasies of the industry belong only in such a fictitious
>setting. The consumers of the fakeries are obviously the intended
>market of the book. It will bring great profit to Dan Brown, who is
>undoubtedly a superb thriller writer - there is a gasp in every line.
That's a moot point.
When I read it I thought there was bathos in every paragraph.
>I found it intriguing that a character named Sir Leigh Teabing
>appears. His surname, as a reviewer pointed out, is an anagram of
>Baigent (all the names have such coded meanings). Baigent-Leigh is
>presented first as a respected historian, the authority on the Grail
>legend, but by the end of the story appears in a villainous role (I
>won�t spoil it by telling you more). I detect a hint of scepticism by
>Dan Brown, who does seem to be a capable thinker."
The difference between Dan Brown and Baigent et al is that at least Dan Brown
acknowledged that he was writing fiction.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://khanya.wordpress.com
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
The instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right.
But the liberal deviseth liberal things;
and by liberal things shall he stand (Isaiah 32:7-8).
erilar
Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> The difference between Dan Brown and Baigent et al is that at least Dan Brown
> acknowledged that he was writing fiction.
Well, I don't know who the other is, but Brown can't even write decent
fiction, according to people whose opinion I respect who have had the
stomach to attempt to read the stuff.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
Francis A. Miniter
> In article <8n60k5pi3ued0pe39...@4ax.com>,
> Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>> The difference between Dan Brown and Baigent et al is that at least Dan Brown
>> acknowledged that he was writing fiction.
>
> Well, I don't know who the other is, but Brown can't even write decent
> fiction, according to people whose opinion I respect who have had the
> stomach to attempt to read the stuff.
>
Baigent is the guy who sued Brown for plagarism and lost,
since Brown only took ideas and not the expression of the ideas.
--
Francis A. Miniter
Oscuramente
libros, laminas, llaves
siguen mi suerte.
Jorge Luis Borges, La Cifra Haiku, 6