Author Topic: The Da Vinci Code - anyone read it? (Read 1024 times)

Booz · « **Reply #30 on:** January 06, 2006, 10:32:49 PM »

Yes, yes, this piece of fiction completely destroys christianity.

Read that again 3 times and figure out why everyone is in a funk about it.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 06, 2006, 10:46:48 PM »

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Give the 'Road to Gandolfo' a try.. also by Robert Ludlum (Osterman Weekend). You WILL laugh yer bellybutton off... and I don't think he was really trying to be funny.

I hope you're not talking about the Robert Ludlum who wrote the Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Identity is quite possibly the worst book ever written ever. I was seriously in pain reading it and gave up soon into the book.

I'll be damned if I ever willingly pick up a Ludlum book ever again. Even to determine whether or not it would burn well.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 06, 2006, 11:42:28 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I hope you're not talking about the Robert Ludlum who wrote the Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Identity is quite possibly the worst book ever written ever. I was seriously in pain reading it and gave up soon into the book.

I'll be damned if I ever willingly pick up a Ludlum book ever again. Even to determine whether or not it would burn well.

I like the part in the book where there is a secret cruise ship filled with an arms bazaar, and they let in all these spys without so much of a background check and then they blow the boat up, and everyone dies and then they get away.

Actually that Ludlum book wasnt half bad.

Seriously anything by Dale Brown gives me phyiscal pain and nausea."Tin Man" has got to be the worst book ever. So I think anything by Dan Brown would do the same dang thing.

Silat · « **Reply #33 on:** January 07, 2006, 01:39:44 AM »

Totally unbelievable book.
I mean who could believe a story about a guy that comes to earth as the son of god...............

Heiliger · « **Reply #34 on:** January 07, 2006, 01:54:12 AM »

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Originally posted by Silat
Totally unbelievable book.
I mean who could believe a story about a guy that comes to earth as the son of god...............

I know. Its a miracle anyone believes it.

Furball · « **Reply #35 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:35:13 AM »

Beet1e is Teabing

LLv34_Snefens · « **Reply #36 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:43:33 AM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I hope you're not talking about the Robert Ludlum who wrote the Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Identity is quite possibly the worst book ever written ever. I was seriously in pain reading it and gave up soon into the book.

I'll be damned if I ever willingly pick up a Ludlum book ever again. Even to determine whether or not it would burn well.

If you thought the Bourne Identity was bad, you should try reading the one called "the Brotherhood" or something like that. I accidently picked it up once in desperate need for something to read during some train trips.
Story basically is about how a small group of nazis secretly have prepared for a worldwide coup, by use of now grown-up sonnenkinder, (sun childs) placed in powerful positions. The coup was to be executed by flying lots of Me-323 gliders (yes, not 321's!), hidden since the war and towed by jet planes, loaded with poison into water resovoirs. The trick being they would be invisible on radar since they don't have metal in them.

There are so many twists and turns in his books that I actually was expecting Hitler to turn up alive by the end of the book, which he then did. I swear I'm not making this up.

LLv34_Snefens · « **Reply #37 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:53:25 AM »

OMG, I just found it's a film as well. Title was "The Apocalypse Watch" btw, not what I wrote above.

joowenn · « **Reply #38 on:** January 07, 2006, 12:58:22 PM »

click harry potter

beet1e · « **Reply #39 on:** January 07, 2006, 01:03:54 PM »

Furby - who was Teabing? I don't recall that name in the first 140 pages, which was as far as I got. As soon as it started getting religious, my mind went into quiesce status.

Furball · « **Reply #40 on:** January 07, 2006, 01:15:53 PM »

its a Royal Historian, Sir Leigh Teabing who is incredibly rich!

beet1e · « **Reply #41 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:02:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
its a Royal Historian, Sir Leigh Teabing who is incredibly rich!

LOL! Why does everyone around here seem to think that I'm loaded?!

Casca · « **Reply #42 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:13:15 PM »

Couldn't get through it. The characters were poorly drawn, the plotline strained my credulity to the breaking point.

I bailed on the book at the point where he informed me that the political terms "left" and "right" were based on some masculine/feminine/religeous mumbo jumbo. They, of course, emmanate from the seating arrangements in the French Assembly.