----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Da Vinci Code (Minimal spoilers)
> Doug Pensinger wrote: > > > > I finished this one a month or so ago and while some of it was interesting > > I thought the endless train of riddle solving got tiresome and that the > > twist near the end was poorly done. Has anyone else here read it? > > > > -- > > Doug > > Yes, I read it on a good recommendation. I also was not too > impressed. > > Somewhere around half-way through it, I started yelling at the > characters, saying something on the order of, "Take the stupid > puzzle box to an CAT scanner already!" > > The twist at the end obviously took a lot of work to set up, and > I think a lot of that was well done. It didn't really hit me as > one might wish it too, but I don't see how to rewrite it to make > it work better. > > Later I saw that he seemed to have lifted large amounts of the > Jesus material from an earlier "non-fiction" book whose name > escapes me. Holy Blood, Holy Grail is likely the book you are thinking of. The book just before The DaVinci Code, Angels And Demons, is a much better book and a lot more fun. It had me wondering why people made such a big deal over TDC. xponent Starring The Illuminati Maru rob
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