The Da Vinci Code

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I'm shocked that noone has started a thread about DVC. The book is so addictive, I just got it yesturday and I'm more then half way through. THat's a new record for me! Anyways, what do you think about the book? How will the movie match up to the book?

Oh and the PHI(1.618) thing is total BS. I'm still pissed off about that. Divine ratio my ass. >.>

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Note that this thread is a discussion for the book itself, not the movie. The author Dan Brown and his other works can also be discussed here.

[Raku]

:O You sure there aint a thread about it? I've seen several threads talking about the book. anyways. I read it on 2 days (shocky enough) and i think it's the best book i've read in long times :O Angels and demons are better though ^^

[ChansteR]

Yes, the Da Vinci Code is indeed one of the best books I have read, finished it in 2 days as well, bout the movie, not so sure if they par up to the book but they are using the book as a reference

[재]

what the heck, there is a post about this book like a few weeks ago, there were like 3 pages, i knew there is.ins't it here now???

[Random Havoc]

I gotta read this before the movie comes out x.x

[M-50]

I have posted a thread about DVC but it is in the Movies thread.

[kaede822]

i read a PDF copy of DVC since i wasnt able to grab a copy of it..anyway, that was over a year ago. It took me about 2-3 days in front of the pc..reading the entire story..and it got me hooked since then.. cant wait for the movie:musak:

[FutureEmperor]

Ok sure i read the book in about 3 days... but seriously it wasnt all that hard of a read, it was really easy infact. and personally i think this book was a over hyped piece of crap that just repeated itself over and over, didnt have a surprise twist (i knew what was happening before it happened) and its prose... well it didnt really have any.

I think this book is like the friends of books. Friends was a show every one liked, that made rediculous amounts of money and it wasnt even all that great... this book was exactly like that...

the only thing this book had going for it was that it brought new theorys about the grail to the public eye... but these theorys were already published before hand...

overall i thought it was an ok adventure book, but seriously it was complete blah... and i would recomend a dozen other books before i even began to consider recomending this book.

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what the heck, there is a post about this book like a few weeks ago, there were like 3 pages, i knew there is.ins't it here now???
I'm talking about the book, not the movie.

Has anyone read the other book? Angels & Demons? I say it is even better then DVC though it has a even more complicated plot.

[Lolable]

i prefer angels and demons and i like deception point
but my fav is the other book digital..*something* maybe fortress or w/e i forgot XD
but wat sucks is that all dan brown's books have the same ending
the last person u expect is the criminal -_-

[Dark Fire]

@y_s: but that wut makes his books so great
but Angels & Demons is alot beter than DVC
ooh the branding creeped me out

[Lolable]

@DK:but in the end after reading 2 of his books u figure out who is gona be the bad guy :P

BTW one more thing i like his books cuz they r full of infos

[Nomadic Dragon]

I've read both Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code. Both I have to say are really good books. I found it to be more of a mystery style book than action, and yes the branding in Angels and Demons was creepy.

[yumisan]

yea...i agree with nomadic_dragon..both books were good but to me i like Angels and Demons better...they are more interesting.both books are good anyway because both contains specific informations that gives me a clearer view if the story.both books were like..O.o...speechless to me.

[Dark Fire]

wut was yur favoite part in Angels and Demons??

[Kefka]

wut was yur favoite part in Angels and Demons??

I liked the whole concept of following the path and going to each location.

Although I did *gasp* when I found out who was behind it all.

[Byakuya7]

Hmm, well Da Vinci code premiered worldwide, and the critics were really harsh. Sometimes I hate movie critics, they pick apart everything..Just enjoy the damn movie and stop being a tightwad..Oh well, its their job I guess.

[Hits]

I don't think this book was movie material anyways. It's an interest read but it's just soooo melodramatic and i fail to see how the big secret can devastate mankind.

[Lolable]

hitsu i think it might be for religious ppl or ppl in the past maybe even though i was like ..that is the BIG SECRET comeon -__-
as for my fav part in angels and demons well ummm its the last part when everything was uncovered :P

[Neve]

hmm...I never really took to the Dan Brown books. I read both Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons, but they both seemed a bit...mindless...they just seemed to follow a pattern of action->puzzle->action->puzzle and, while the villan was quite surprising, it never seemed to be that clever - just surprising.

[kaede822]

fave part? the branding!!!!! nyahahahahaha!!!!:LOL:
seriously, the part when the carmelengo (sp? cant remember..read it over a year ago)...okay the bad guy learned that the pope was his biological father...a classic but i like it

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well, dvc has some major flaws. how is the mary magdalene thing a secret when so many other people knew about it? And it got really predictable at the end even though I still have around 80pages left to read. Fache is the teacher, yes?

[Shinji]

Which is the best, the book or the movie?

The movie has gotten lousy reviews so I can imagine the book is way better.

[_Ink]

it was ok, I like it when they explained the ancient history, in a more personal way.
Tho I find it overated. I read it two times by now, plan to re read again.
Who doesn't love the morbid side of christianity with the Opus Dei?

[Hits]

Oh dammit! I guess I spoke too soon, I did NOT see this coming. The teacher is actually...
Teabing!

[The Will Of Gaara]

This book was without a doubt, amazing. The movie ruined it though.

[Hits]

the book was pretty anticlimatic imo. I was expecting this huge unbelievable secret.

[Neve]

Personally, I think all his books are far overrated...

[kashyap3]

mediocre book
not well written but somewhat interesting story
Why is half the world crying and whining about this fictious book?
any reason at all?

[kashyap3]

I'm shocked that noone has started a thread about DVC. The book is so addictive, I just got it yesturday and I'm more then half way through. THat's a new record for me! Anyways, what do you think about the book? How will the movie match up to the book?
Oh and the PHI(1.618) thing is total BS. I'm still pissed off about that. Divine ratio my ass. >.>
*edit*
Note that this thread is a discussion for the book itself, not the movie. The author Dan Brown and his other works can also be discussed here.

i'm pretty sure PHI is actually true
and some of his facts have holes
and why is the world crying and whining sooo much?

EDIT sry 4 double post
cliked reply on some post and didnt realize i had posted b4

[Ruk]

Personally, I think all his books are far overrated...

You know I have to agree with this.

As good as his books are they are pretty much what I would call mind candy.

Great reads, fun while they last but not very filling.

I have read 3 of his books Angels, Di Vinci and Decption Point.

They all were almost the same, good fun but not very filling.

Like I have said else where if they were to have picked Angels to be the first of his books made into a movie it would have been better.

[Mega Wings]

Mmm! it info was very good fact or ficnon!

[izza]

It's a pretty good book I guess but I thought it would be better written from all the hype that had been going on.

[Zinedine Zidane]

I love the book. It's the only book I've read that did not bore me.

[~black butterfly~]

i love this book too....but i know its fiction...the claims in this book are very interesting and it has made me want to grab more info about certain claims in it

[Sosai Wakasaki]

I love the book.... Is a really awesome book... Its addictive

[Planeswalker]

It started out great...around halfway through it began to drop in quality...its just the same thing over and over again. "Cryptex" this and "Fibbonacci" that >.>

[emmasu]

well, you made me like the book and since its ficition, i will read it, i love ficition, at least it will not have those ugly pics, like the movie

[Hits]

The book got so predictable at the end. A monkey could've figured that Teabing was the "Teacher".
The concept of the book is so pretentious. They make it out that the secret can devastate the entire world and only few people know it. As if....

[Planeswalker]

The book got so predictable at the end. A monkey could've figured that Teabing was the "Teacher".
The concept of the book is so pretentious. They make it out that the secret can devastate the entire world and only few people know it. As if....

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I didnt pick it at first...I dont think its that easy, but once you get around to the last quarter or so you know that a powerful new character isnt likely to be introduced so one must begin suspecting ones we already know...


If it were true that secret would devastate the world. Look at all the damage it is doing when its just fiction :/

[Qc0Jh1axT]

It's true the book is overrated. And it's true it is fiction. But lots of people believe in those kind of crap anyway. I read somewhere the Louvre Museum and that Church where the supposed 'Line of the Rose' is got flooded with tourists all of a sudden just because of his book.

Also. No movies can ever match up to the book. It's never going to happen. If the movie is as good as, or even better than the book itself, nobody would bother to read the book at all. And that is bad. For book sales.

NEver in this lifetime will movies match up to the books they're based on. Except maybe for boring Biographies and Autobiographies movie crap.

[MasterX25]

I believe that Angels and Demons is a bit better than Da Vinci Code.

[Kzimask]

Da Vinci Code was enjoyable book id say... Mysteries and stuff...

[Kootje]

The book is really good teaches u something yet is reallly thrililng, though I think the Berninni Mysterie is alot better, the should movie that

[Wolfman Walt]

I thought it was a pretty boring book with stuff that wasn't new or exciting, nor was Dan Brown's writing style really that great in my opinion. Ofcourse, I think J.K. Rowling is an over-rated hack, so you may want to take my words with a grain of salt.

[grieversangel]

This book caused so much contrivercy,but i like it anyway.

[Avenger]

The plot was a little crazy with history but I liked it.

[Rayster]

I was expecting soooo much from the book when i read it last year...november i think...but it did not live up
i liked it...but i guess the anticipation really ruined it for me..