Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Apparently I'm about 50 pages away from getting to read it :-)
will
Ben Densmore wrote:
> I think the book you are talking about that Dan Brown got a lot of his
> info from is called Holy Grail, Bloody Grail. Or something similar.
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William H Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:00 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: The Da Vinci code
>
> Nice bit of Scooby-Doo mystery.
>
> I thought the book was very predictable, followed the standard plot
> machine output to the letter. I picked "bad guy" on the first page his
> name was mentioned.
>
> The tying together of all the stuff about Opus Dei and the Priory, the
> Knights Templar and the Grail, etc. was interesting but nothing I hadn't
>
> heard before, even if presented in a slightly different way.
>
> There's a book that's been out for a bunch of years now that The DaVinci
>
> Code is based on, don't remember the title off-hand. I'm currently
> waiting for my turn to read it. I can find out the title if you'd like,
> and I'll post a review once I've read it. It's basically all of the
> research done by several archeologists, theologians, etc. that trace the
>
> history of the Knights Templar, the Priory of Scion, Opus Dei, the
> Gr-r-r-r-r-r-r-rail (I really do prefer Tim the Enchanter's
> pronunciation :-) ), Mary Magdelene and other subjects covered in
> DaVinci.
>
> will
>
> Marlon Moyer wrote:
>
> > Just finished reading it last night. Started on Friday evening and
> > couldn't
> > put it down. It was a good thriller. I'd love to know how much is
> > based on
> > fact and how much was fiction. Then again, I've always wondered what
> > Mason's and the like do also. Anyone else read this book? Outside of
> > Sci-Fi/Fantasy, which I read a lot of, this is the first book I've
> > read that
> > fast in a long time.
> >
>
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