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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: icespeed on January 20, 2005, 02:31:28 am

Title: the da vinci code
Post by: icespeed on January 20, 2005, 02:31:28 am: has anyone read it? i'm curious for people's opinions.

personally, i think it's an okay novel (i'm a bit of a critic, i find it too formulaic when it gets to all the cliffhangers and so on, but that's more a matter of taste than anything else) but misleading. extremely misleading. actually i think all the so-called 'facts' are a load of hallucinogen-induced fantasies.
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Post by: Gloriano on January 20, 2005, 02:41:11 am: da vinci code is one of best novels I've read
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Post by: übermetroid on January 20, 2005, 02:45:56 am: *bangs fists against chest and hollers like a barbarian*
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Post by: icespeed on January 20, 2005, 02:49:35 am: what, including all that stuff about the sacred feminine? i'm not exactly stupid (went to top high school in the state, doing medicine now) but i had to reread some of those passages a few times to get it. and i still think it's all bull, especially the hieros gamos, i mean, okay the guy gets to achieve gnosis but what about the girl, is she just like an instrument for the guy to do that or what?
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Post by: Rson on January 20, 2005, 02:56:38 am: I read an article about it in the newspaper, but I never read it.

Apparently some people are taking the book literally.
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Post by: Ransom on January 20, 2005, 03:44:02 am: Read some of it, got bored. Don't like those kind of books ('those kind' as in non-fantasy/sci fi). As far as they go though, it wasn't too bad. Where's the 'it was ok' option?
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Post by: Primus on January 20, 2005, 04:22:59 am: The what??
"i'm a complete barbarian and haven't read it"
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Post by: kode on January 20, 2005, 05:21:53 am: the option "I read the book, and it's overrated but a good pastime none-the-less" isn't there, so I didn't vote.
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 20, 2005, 05:53:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rson
I read an article about it in the newspaper, but I never read it.

Apparently some people are taking the book literally.

The Louvre and Roslyn Chapel are a bit pissed off at that, IIRC.
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Post by: vyper on January 20, 2005, 05:56:10 am: Read The Templar Revelation if you want the non-fiction presentation.
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Post by: Falcon on January 20, 2005, 06:15:31 am: *jumps up and down*

Im a barbarian!
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Post by: Bobboau on January 20, 2005, 06:21:32 am: not all the facts are BS but quite a few of them are
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Post by: Nico on January 20, 2005, 07:29:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by icespeed
what, including all that stuff about the sacred feminine? i'm not exactly stupid (went to top high school in the state, doing medicine now) but i had to reread some of those passages a few times to get it. and i still think it's all bull, especially the hieros gamos, i mean, okay the guy gets to achieve gnosis but what about the girl, is she just like an instrument for the guy to do that or what?

Don't bother, he didn't actually read it :p
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Post by: Corsair on January 20, 2005, 08:10:33 am: I'm in the middle of it right now and I'm loving it.
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Post by: pyro-manic on January 20, 2005, 12:03:34 pm: *dons armour and studs*

I'm reading the Book of Five Rings atm...
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Post by: Rand al Thor on January 20, 2005, 12:56:48 pm: I thought the first half when it set the story, and established its world was pretty interesting. Nice interpretation.

Then when the chase/treasure hunt started it got pretty repetitive. Every chapter ends with 'And then it struck him. It was so blindingly obvious! He entered the code and the case unlocked!'.

Dun dunnnn DUNNNNNNNN!
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Post by: kode on January 20, 2005, 12:57:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by pyro-manic
*dons armour and studs*

I'm reading the Book of Five Rings atm...

whoa! so am I.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on January 20, 2005, 02:20:07 pm: The fact that everyone was carrying on about it kinda made me not want to read it. Besides, I hear he's a terrible writer.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on January 20, 2005, 02:27:25 pm: Never felt any need to read it.

On a side note, The Book of the Five Rings is quite good.
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Post by: Shinobi on January 20, 2005, 03:09:14 pm: Complete lack of character development, was its main flaw out of several. Had a few interesting plot twists though I pre-empted the main one. All in all I think it's an ok read, though entirely over-rated and over-sold.
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Post by: Gank on January 20, 2005, 04:11:08 pm: Havent read the book but I've heard its a work of fiction based around several organisations that are less than transparent?

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Originally posted by aldo_14
The Louvre and Roslyn Chapel are a bit pissed off at that, IIRC.

I take it freemasons are involved then?
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Post by: Rictor on January 20, 2005, 04:12:06 pm: It was an OK book. I don't know why everyone is gong nuts over it, like its the pinnacle of human achievement or something. I guess its what the great unwashed masses consider a "smart read"..

One of the several books I've read entirely on my computer.
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 20, 2005, 05:04:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Gank

I take it freemasons are involved then?

I dunno. Rossyln chapel is also heavily associated with the Knights Templar IIRC
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Post by: redsniper on January 20, 2005, 05:05:20 pm: meh, it was okay. Angels & Demons (one of his other books) could wipe the floor with it easily.
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Post by: Eishtmo on January 20, 2005, 07:43:27 pm: I haven't read it, and I know most of it is hogwash. Might be a good story, but it's mostly made up.
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Post by: Corsair on January 20, 2005, 07:49:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

I dunno. Rossyln chapel is also heavily associated with the Knights Templar IIRC
Da Vinci Code is about the Knights Templar. Angels & Demons is about the Illuminati... ;7

My problem with Angels & Demons was the ending. I mean, it was good, but I felt like it was a bit of a sell-out. A plot twist, sure, but a sell-out nonetheless. I'm just hoping Da Vinci Code doesn't do something similarly stupid.
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Post by: Jal-18 on January 20, 2005, 07:51:56 pm: Call me Conan. :D
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Post by: redsniper on January 20, 2005, 09:18:27 pm: main reason I like Angels & Demons:
Spoiler:
Langdon jumps out of a freakin' helicopter with just a pansy tarp instead of a parachute and he lives! Now come one, that's awesome.

The plot and whatever is nice but that ^ just takes the cake for me. Carry on.
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Post by: Corsair on January 20, 2005, 09:36:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by redsniper
main reason I like Angels & Demons:
Spoiler:
Langdon jumps out of a freakin' helicopter with just a pansy tarp instead of a parachute and he lives! Now come one, that's awesome.

The plot and whatever is nice but that ^ just takes the cake for me. Carry on. [/B]
Yeah, that and
Spoiler:
when the Camerlengo goes up in flames and everyone's like "whoa..."
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Post by: icespeed on January 21, 2005, 04:42:48 am: yeah, i didn't post all that many options cos it's not like i'm going to put every single possibility in the world down.

i was just wondering if anyone read it and thought it was all true, that's all.
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Post by: Ransom on January 21, 2005, 04:51:53 am: Why would people think that? Does it go in the non-fiction section?
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Post by: icespeed on January 21, 2005, 04:54:13 am: oh, i had a friend who argued with this random person who was like, yeah, Christianity (by the way the 'church' in that book was the roman catholics, don't label all of us the same way) sucks, look at this book the da vinci code, it proves the church is evil and woman-hating! which it isn't, by the way. i reckon feminism is just another way of being sexist.
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Post by: Flipside on January 21, 2005, 07:02:50 am: I'm Spartacus!

Seriously though, it seemed ok, I can never get into 'real life' books anyway, it's bad enough having X-Files trying to convince people that they may be the only indigenous person on the planet ;)
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Post by: vyper on January 21, 2005, 08:18:02 am: Templar Revelation.

I'll keep posting it until someone bites you know. And yes, the church is quite sexist thanks to yon old fisherman.
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Post by: Andreas on January 21, 2005, 10:36:54 am: Haven't read it and won't never read it. Generally most fiction written these days is just utter :no: IMO.
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Post by: vyper on January 21, 2005, 12:28:28 pm: Which is why I mentioned the Templar Revelation.

Moo.
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Post by: Gank on January 21, 2005, 08:37:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
I dunno. Rossyln chapel is also heavily associated with the Knights Templar IIRC

Same thing, freemasonry came into being shortly after the Knights Templar were outlawed around 1300. The Roslyn family was head of Scottish freemasonry for something like 300 years, with the builder of the chapel William St. Clair being its Grandmaster.

Icespeed: Would you opposition to it have anything to do with the fact you're a christian? As for the Church being woman-hating, it'd mightn't be such but Christianity definitly teachs women are inferior to men.