And boy, is my tolerance for self indulgent intellectual pretension tired.

Way to ruin the plot for me, ass. Tom Hanks must be spinning in his grave.

I've been wanting to read that book- a friend of mine has it.
I shall be seeking to borrow it soon.

I considered it to be pretty bland myself. What really bothers me is how pop-culture works like this are taken as worthy historical reference by the uninitiated.
I'm sure the French and other European countries that pride themselves on history are laughing their asses off at us over this one.

sounds like the bible.

dumbledore dies on page 596.

poorly written piece of shit.

i never bothered finishing it.

DAMMIT!! i was only 3 pages away!

...so who killed him?

but to remain on topic, the huge cult of people reading it freaked me out. i made a sound decision to have nothing to do with dan brown. no book, no movie.

the book is actually pretty good, i'm sure the movie will be decent as well.

It was a decent book. The movie ought to be not bad at all. Tom Hanks is a great actor..... at first he did not seem to fit the part..... but after seeing the preview it looks like it may be well done.....

I'll just be watching the movie. I'd read the book, but I don't enjoy putting my learnings on history to test. As for Tom Hanks, everything that guy says is hilarious.

I liked it, but I DO think that it over hyped. I think I would have read dispite the hype. I think I liked it mostly because I have a personal interest in art history whereas I think the normal person finds it very boring...

My flatmate has the fully illustrated version of this book which is awesome. It always helps to have the images in front of you. I'm sure if you weren't familiar with all the paintings and architecture, it might just fly over your head.

i was really pretty familiar with the art before reading the book and to be honest, i really enjoyed the book. i found it to be a great read!

i wonder if the movie will do it justice. i really saw Harrison Ford playing Robert Langdon tho.

I wonder if that's because the book describes him as looking like Harrison Ford.

The movie might be okay. I was discussing with my brother how once you get past the complete fabrication and falsification of facts, the terrible dialogue/characterization, the lame and overly obvious political agenda, the poor spacing of important plot points, the demonization of the male gender coupled with the tragically ironic, unintentional, but blatantly chauvenistic stereotyping of women as being serene, perfect, good, pure, but completely useless (we had that already, thanks.), the terrible writing...


Once we get past those initial flaws, it's not a bad story. Cut out 400 pages or so and it might be worth reading. I'm going to finish the last hundred pages I have left out of pure masochism, though.

how the hell did i forget that i read that?? i guess the mental picture stayed in my head but i totally forgot reading the words.

The dialogue actually is not all that bad.
As for fabrication and falsification of facts let us not foget that this book is FICTION!!! Wow... fiction.... I think you may have forgotten that one important fact.... fiction is storytelling... stories may resemble reality and yet in no way do they have to impart any truth

What got me was figuring out important plot twists pages before the ivy-league scholar and the Interpol cryptographer. Man, I must be some kind of frickin' genius...either that, or Brown just isn't smart enough to write really smart characters.

the movie is generating a lot of interest...i guess the book does too, when i was working in florida some of the most rented disks were two we had done documentry style about the codes peceived in davinci's work...tempting, it would even have two people discussing the disk in line...one pro and the other con.

i'm expecting the movie to do well...it could do it by star power alone, but people are fascinated by the conspiracy.

That's even worse. There is no conspiracy. The book is a work of fiction. Brown, unlike some other authors *cough*Frye*cough* isn't trying to pass this off as actual fact.