Da Vinci Code
Matalog
the other night. Seem like a very good book.
Danny Kodicek
"Matalog" <mat...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it
> the other night. Seem like a very good book.
>
>
is.
Keeps you reading, but you feel sullied by the end.
Danny
Mark Brader
> > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
> Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't
take it seriously.
--
Mark Brader "'A matter of opinion'[?] I have to say you are
Toronto right. There['s] your opinion, which is wrong,
m...@vex.net and mine, which is right." -- Gene Ward Smith
Jon Haugsand
> > > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it
> > > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
>
> > Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
>
> Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't
> take it seriously.
Exactly. I read it before it became the hype it is now, and it never
occured to me that it was even close to something from the reality.
ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
in less than 24 hours?
--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jon...@ifi.uio.no
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92
Danny Kodicek
"Jon Haugsand" <jon...@ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
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> * Mark Brader
> > > > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started
reading it
> > > > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
> >
> > > Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
> >
> > Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't
> > take it seriously.
>
> Exactly. I read it before it became the hype it is now, and it never
> occured to me that it was even close to something from the reality.
>
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine' takes place during about 5 minutes IIRC (I
haven't read it, but it's supposed to be very good). There's also Stanislav
Lem's 'One Perfect Minute' and Geoff Ryman's '253', although neither of
these are 'stories' in a conventional sense. 253 is an 'instantaneous'
novel - it takes place in a frozen moment in time, so you can't get a
smaller space of time than that...
(253 is very cool and readable online at http://www.ryman-novel.com/)
Danny
Pazqo
there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that is
falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in english. In
italian it is "Oggetto Quasi".
see you
pazqo
Jon Haugsand
>
> there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that
> is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in
> english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi".
> see you
> pazqo
But are these really shot time novels? I mean, do they include a lot
of memories from the past?
The Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel wrote "A day in October" which took
place in just a few hours, but it did not really, because almost the
complete book was about the years leading upt to this day.
Pazqo
> * pa...@libero.it
>
>>there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that
>>is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in
>>english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi".
>>see you
>>pazqo
>
>
> But are these really shot time novels? I mean, do they include a lot
> of memories from the past?
>
> The Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel wrote "A day in October" which took
> place in just a few hours, but it did not really, because almost the
> complete book was about the years leading upt to this day.
well, the story i suggest is a strange story.
the chair is telling us what is happening. so it is a short time novel.
how many time do you think it will keep to you falling from the chair?
:-)
pazqo
Michael Mendelsohn
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Cheers
Michael
--
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But could not fathom what she meant Easier I count it to explain
She was not deep, nor eloquent. The jargon of the howling main
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Danny Kodicek
"Michael Mendelsohn" <inv...@msgid.michael.mendelsohn.de> wrote in message
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> Jon Haugsand schrieb:
> > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> > in less than 24 hours?
>
> Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
>
> Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Interesting that you say that - it doesn't *feel* like it takes less than 24
hours. Arthur certainly goes to sleep in the middle before they get to
Magrathea. But... hmm. I guess so.
Pre-Shakespearean times there was a supposed rule in plays that they should
always take place in real time (and indeed in real space), going back to the
Greeks. But I don't know how strictly playwrights stuck to it!
Danny
Ted S.
news:dmllap3...@fugazze.ifi.uio.no:
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
>
I don't recall there being any flashbacks in "One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich" (by Solzhenitsyn).
--
Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
TV Announcer: It's 11:00. Do you know where your children are?
Homer: I told you last night, *no*!
<http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F06.html>
Jim Ward
<use...@well-spring.co.uk> wrote:
>Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine' takes place during about 5 minutes IIRC (I
>haven't read it, but it's supposed to be very good).
One of Baker's better ones, along with "The Fermata". "The DaVinci
Code" is Dan Brown's best, "Angels and Demons" is close behind, and
the rest of his books are utter crap. Talk about grabbing the
zeitgeist!
Bart J. Geraci
wrote:
>ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
>in less than 24 hours?
Ulysses by James Joyce. Takes place on June 16 (aka "Bloomsday").
-bj-
Bart J. Geraci
BJGe...@aol.com
Michael Mendelsohn
> > > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> > > in less than 24 hours?
> >
> > Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
> >
> > Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
>
> Interesting that you say that - it doesn't *feel* like it takes less than 24
> hours. Arthur certainly goes to sleep in the middle before they get to
> Magrathea. But... hmm. I guess so.
It may be a few hours over, it's hard to tell - shipboard time is
probably not synchronized to London time. Certainly if you disregrad the
first few pages (from 8 am to lunchtime), Arthur's time ought to
subjectively come pretty close: at the end, they're running away from
lunch with the mice.
To boldly split infinitives....
Michael A. Cleverly
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
The Brazilian novel "Os Tambores de Sao Luis" by Josue Montello takes
place during a single night in 1915.
Michael
Song Weaver
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
Yes.
--julie
Gareth Owen
David Brain
>> > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it
>> > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
>
>> Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
>
>Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't
>take it seriously.
A reviewer in a UK newspaper said something like "Paper-thin
characters, ludicrous plot, appaling writing and dammit, you can't
stop reading it."
My feelings exactly.
--
David Brain
London, UK
cav...@yahoo.com
I got it as a Christmas present and read it all the way through to find
out what all the fuss was about. I thought it was appalling muck. I'm
aware that people have been getting emotional about its content - I'm
not one of these people, i.e. I don't dislike it out of any outrage
about Jesus and Mary whatshername. I just thought the character
development was non-existent, the story was in no way atmospheric,
there were stupid cliffhanger moments every two pages that I quickly
got tired of. Such utter shit. I wouldn't get another of this guys
books in a fit.
cav...@yahoo.com
twelve
Supper... check it out:
http://www.realmoftwelve.net/about/grail.html
gary
Vince
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> in less than 24 hours?
There was a TV series, but I can't remember the name of it.
Jon Haugsand
Jon Haugsand
> Obviously you've never heard of James Joyce.
Of course I have ("Ulysses" and "Finnigans wake"), but I haven't read
them. (They are probably what Mark Twain had in mind when he said, "A
classic is book everyone appreciate, but none has read."
However, what puzzles me is how you came around making a comment like
that.
Patrick Hamlyn
>* vme...@nospamblueyonder.co.uk
>> "Jon Haugsand" wrote
>>
>> > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
>> > in less than 24 hours?
>>
>> There was a TV series, but I can't remember the name of it.
>
>24?
...and just how long after you hit 'Send' did you ralise you were being wound
up?
BTW '24' Takes place in *exactly* 24 hours so I guess it doesn't count!
--
Patrick Hamlyn posting from Perth, Western Australia
Windsurfing capital of the Southern Hemisphere
Moderator: polyforms group (polyforms...@egroups.com)
Jon Haugsand
> Jon Haugsand <jon...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>
> >* vme...@nospamblueyonder.co.uk
> >> "Jon Haugsand" wrote
> >>
> >> > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place
> >> > in less than 24 hours?
> >>
> >> There was a TV series, but I can't remember the name of it.
> >
> >24?
>
> ...and just how long after you hit 'Send' did you ralise you were being wound
> up?
>
> BTW '24' Takes place in *exactly* 24 hours so I guess it doesn't count!
(* smzick *) (Sound of smacking myself.)
cav...@yahoo.com
Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * cav...@yahoo.com
> > Obviously you've never heard of James Joyce.
>
> Of course I have ("Ulysses" and "Finnigans wake"), but I haven't read
> them. (They are probably what Mark Twain had in mind when he said,
"A
> classic is book everyone appreciate, but none has read."
>
> However, what puzzles me is how you came around making a comment like
> that.
You had inquired if any other books had been set in a 24 hour period.
Ulysses more or less fits the bill. This is its most famous
characteristic.
Jim Ward
>You had inquired if any other books had been set in a 24 hour period.
>Ulysses more or less fits the bill. This is its most famous
>characteristic.
I thought its most famous characteristic was that it was banned in New
York.
http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/a/aa_ulysses.htm
Michael Mendelsohn
> You had inquired if any other books had been set in a 24 hour period.
> Ulysses more or less fits the bill. This is its most famous
> characteristic.
I thought its most famous characteristic was that it is as hard to
understand as it is thick.
Dubliners
Song Weaver
>>You had inquired if any other books had been set in a 24 hour period.
>>Ulysses more or less fits the bill. This is its most famous
>>characteristic.
>
> I thought its most famous characteristic was that it is as hard to
> understand as it is thick.
While those all may be well-known characteristics, its -most- famous
characteristic is that it was written by James Joyce.
--julie
Rich Grise
> * pa...@libero.it
>>
>> there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that
>> is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in
>> english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi".
>> see you
>> pazqo
>
> But are these really shot time novels? I mean, do they include a lot
> of memories from the past?
>
> The Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel wrote "A day in October" which took
> place in just a few hours, but it did not really, because almost the
> complete book was about the years leading upt to this day.
For some reason, that Twilight Zone ep about the guy who crashes his car
and is immobilized springs to mind - he's in the morgue and they're about
to do an autopsy, and one of the medics spots tears. I think that takes
place in only a few hours, but it's not a novel.
Actually, just about any TZ ep. Talking Tina, that Voodoo doll, the
Talking Mannequins...
Cheers!
Rich