I read it when it was first published and frankly didn't think much of it. The
art, history
and, theological "facts" in the book were highly suspect to say the least (mind
you I was a
grad student studying Medieval & Early Modern European History at the time) and
I actually
found the stuff about Opus Dei in poor taste. I dismissed it as a cheap thriller
and could
not believe it when it became a best-seller and continued to be a "hot" title
for so long!
Then all the people who believed it and THEN wanted to discuss it! I am not one
of those
people who believes that the merit of a book lies in it's ability to make you
talk about it.
Ugh, and then all those "Code" knock-offs which continue to plague the
shelves...


--- In audible@yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola@...> wrote:
>
> I read it before it was popular, or at least before I knew it was popular.
> I had actually never heard of it, and I got it after getting the other book,
> so I wanted to read anything by the author. And I enjoy nonfiction and
> don't mind exposition in a novel, it just seemed to me that there was a good
> balance, and that the exposition interrupted the story for too long at a
> time. It was jarring somehow. when it did become popular, I frankly
> wondered what was all the fuss about! normally, I like suspense, but that
> one didn't do it for me.
>
> Sherry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:audible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Bekah
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 6:04 PM
> To: audible@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [audible] the DaVinci Code
>
> And I was fascinated by the "boring exposition" and going "oh no, standard
> detective story chase scene" in the other sections.
>
> I think the problem with The DaVinci Code at this point is that it's been
> hyped so much, not just by the publishers but by everyone who read it early
> on. It was very exciting to open a book and discover that subject matter and
> that type of detective work. I enjoyed it a fair amount at the time
> (although it wasn't quite what my sil cracked it up to be). Then I hit a
> real change in my opinion when I found out how popular it was and that
> people believed the story! Omg, it's a hoax to begin with and a hoax (of
> sorts) on top of that. The DaVinci Code is FICTION based on a real-life
> HOAX.
>
> Bekah
>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Sherry Gomes wrote:
>
> > I actually found the book kind of boring, well, to clarify, I felt
> > there were moments of hair raising suspense, followed by 45 minutes of
> > boring exposition. I figured out the ending way before the end, so
> > even that was anticlimactic. However, when I first accidentally read
> > the abridged version of one of the author's other books, I enjoyed
> > that quite a bit.
> > That was
> > Angels and demons. I have the unabridged version now, but I'm kind of
> > leery to read it after the disappointment I found in the code.
> >
> > Sherry
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audible@yahoogroups.com <mailto:audible%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:audible@yahoogroups.com <mailto:audible%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> > On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:34 AM
> > To: audible@yahoogroups.com <mailto:audible%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [audible] Do you always finish every book you download?
> >
> > I read the Da Vinci code from NLS and I was fascinated even though I'm
> > not Catholic, nor religious at all. It's a good suspense story.
> >
> > Miriam
> >
> >
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