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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on February 24, 2004, 11:04:13 AM
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Anyone else read this?
Waddaya think?
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I read it. The writing was good, disappointed at the end for obvious reasons.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Anyone else read this?
Waddaya think?
Super book, Midnight. If you've read the book then surely you've tried to verify the supporting evidence that serves as the basis for the book. It's all real - right wing Catholic loonies are on the loose. :)
curly
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I just picked it up and am 1/2 way through.
This one threw me:
(http://artchive.floridaimaging.com/l/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg)
Is that Mary Magdalen to Jesus right? Why is Peter making a threatening gesture at Mary's throat? Who's hand is holding the knife?
Cool book.
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Its a very clever book. The end is a little too scooby-dooish.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I just picked it up and am 1/2 way through.
This one threw me:
(http://artchive.floridaimaging.com/l/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg)
Is that Mary Magdalen to Jesus right? Why is Peter making a threatening gesture at Mary's throat? Who's hand is holding the knife?
Cool book.
There's a gospell according to Mary Magdalen... which was deemed apocrypha by the Catholic Church.
There was a documentary on Discovery a few weeks ago that talked about this... in short scholars believe Mary was not a prostitute but a very close confidant of Jesus - closer than the other aspostles. When Jesus died, it was Mary who insisted the apostles go out and preach, but they were affraid because they felt they would be persecuted just like Jesus was.
The story is Mary really understood the preachings of Jesus.. more so than Peter... and Peter didn't want to be second bested by a woman... so she was vilified and eventually over the centuries re-characterized as a prostitute and her gospel discounted.. haver some manuscripts exists though in poor condition with sections missing.
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Terrible book, written by a boring writer with a half way decent subject... Can't wait to see the movie version that fixes the books yawn factor...
IKON
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i'm trying to decypher what nostradamus says about davinci , only then will we know the true answer.
PS, why are they all seated on only one side of the table?
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Interesting book...
I too think there is more to Mary Magdaline than the church would have us think back in the day. Unfortunately, it will never be known for sure until the end.
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Dan Brown writes crap. But it is crap that a lot of people like and it's made him rich.
Hooligan
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Dan Brown writes crap. But it is crap that a lot of people like and it's made him rich.
Hooligan
Entertaining crap though. :)
curly
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I picked up the book and read the first few pages got to the part about the murder and his task of passing on the "big secret" . The author seems to have a great idea but isnt telling it in a really creative style, its kinda pulpy. But ill read it seems like a page turner.
O and thanks for puting up those films on your squad website they are really helping me in my 51 flying.
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whoops your not midnight of the bronco mustangs
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DaVinci's Last Supper. Jesus tells his followers he wil die and they freak out right.
:D
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One of my favorites :D
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpg)
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It was an entertaining book because of the subject. The plot was incredible, but the writing was decently bad. Every chapter or big event seemed to end the same way, with either a discovery or import dialogue not explained. If the author applied this writing to a weaker story this wouldn't have gotten anywhere. But...
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I have Merovingian ancestry, if he's right, you can all worship me :)
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great book, in much the same way that cotton candy is to dinner.
once in a while...sure.
everyday? um. no.
i often recommend focaults pendulum for those who liked this book.
:)
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I havnt read this one yet but I did read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. That was actually a pretty good book. I heard the Davinci Code was actual flawed in some of its factual basis but havnt looked at any of the actual research yet.
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Good Read, but the ending was a let-down.
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Bubble-gum writing, but it and the precursor were both OK reading, although I prefered the precursor. I read them both in a couple of days, not exactly heavy reading.
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The prequel is pretty good until it gets pretty stupid... I dunno, better than nothing reading.
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I liked Angels & Demons, but for some reason I can't seem to get into this one.
88, Umberto Eco's was great... but man, I needed an aspirine every hundred pages or so.... :)
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One of my favorites
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpg)
Hmm.. given the recent discoveries about Catholic priests this could be a whole different scnenario than the biblican 'sacrifice.'
It might be the boy forced to 'sacrifice.' :D
The lamb represents the usual partner, which many AH players already know.
How could he miss that in the book.
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Get the illustrated version.
I read a copy that was loaned to me. The writing is simple but the pace is very fast. One thing that bothered me is that the main characters are running on very little sleep and very little food, so how can they possibly be thinking clearly and not be at each others' throats during the more stressfull episodes? :p
Its essentially a murder mystery with several small puzzles along the way, kinda like the PC games that were popular in the 90's like "7th Guest" and "Myst". The reader is presented with a puzzle, the characers solve it, and they move on to the next clue/puzzle. Its entertaining to try and solve the puzzles before the main characters do.
And its a neat trip through the history of art and religion.
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Originally posted by Siaf__csf
Hmm.. given the recent discoveries about Catholic priests this could be a whole different scnenario than the biblican 'sacrifice.'
It might be the boy forced to 'sacrifice.' :D
The lamb represents the usual partner, which many AH players already know.
How could he miss that in the book.
LOL!
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I just picked it up and am 1/2 way through.
This one threw me:
(http://artchive.floridaimaging.com/l/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg)
Is that Mary Magdalen to Jesus right? Why is Peter making a threatening gesture at Mary's throat? Who's hand is holding the knife?
Cool book.
I was shocked when I first saw that! I found a good picture on the internet that let you zoom in.... it IS Mary Magdalen! and then the part about there is no Holy Grail on the table, because SHE is the Holy Grail, and holds the blood of Christ.
crazy stuff!
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I read it when it was called "The Holy Blood, The Holy Grail".
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Entertaining and informative. But couldn't get into it until the illustrated edition.