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The Da Vinci Code 'Lets have a heated debate'
HappyEeyore Started conversation Oct 22, 2005
It seems like everyone is reading or has read the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. People who I didn't even think could read are walking around proudly waving their copy in the face of those who 'just don't get it'.
In order to continue the conversations that have been fuelled by this book, I would like to throw the floor open to H2G2 to find out if there are any other codes, maybe even an universal one out there.
Any code breakers out there?
The Da Vinci Code 'Lets have a heated debate'
HappyEeyore Posted Oct 22, 2005
What about all the spooky symbolism on a dollar bill?
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Wyatt Posted Oct 22, 2005
I don't know. what about it? I heard that if you look closly, there's a picture of George Washington.
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HappyEeyore Posted Oct 22, 2005
If you look on the back there are 13 layers to the pyramid...Oh yes 'the pyramid' (bit odd in the US) and the 'eye of Horus'
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Wyatt Posted Oct 22, 2005
on the 1$ bill, does it have any Paul McCarney death clues?
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Oct 24, 2005
Practically everything in the Da Vinci code which Dan Brown presents as fact is crap. And don't even get me started on Digital Fortress.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Oct 24, 2005
The Da Vinci Code is a resonable work of fiction, I prefered Angels and Demon
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Oct 24, 2005
Agreement: Angels and Demons was rather good.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Oct 24, 2005
Agreement: Digital Fortress was cr@p
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pffffft Posted Oct 24, 2005
I think thats the point Reefy, 'Reasonable' work of fiction. It's not particularly groundbreaking or enjoyable. The writing is only of a 'reasonable' standard, the characters are a tad one dimensional but 'reasonably' acceptable, the plot is 'reasonably' intriguing, but a bit long winded and self indulgent, yet the 'Da Vinci' Code is a total phenomenon. Translated into every available language going, the publication of several analysis books and creating the inability to step onto a train or a plane without seeing someone reading a copy and generating the author feller a shedload of greenbacks in the process. All this in response to a 'reasonable' book. Do we live in such mediocrity that a piece of 'reasonable' work can have such an impact?
Gah. I'm just glad they've cast Tom Hanks in the Movie adaptation, which gives me another good reason for going to see it when it's released.
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pffffft Posted Oct 24, 2005
NOT going to see it, NOT going to see it.
Ahhhh that was the worst unchecked post before previewing mistake ever made, ever,
*slams head against desk in punishment*
NOT going to see it
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 24, 2005
Digital Fortress was probably the biggest waste of £6 I have ever encountered. And that includes going down the pub and shovelling it all into a fruit machine.
I had the entire plot nailed by page 100, and the less said about the closing chapters, the better.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Oct 24, 2005
I found it enjoyable-but-brainless, but when he wrote about being able to check if a mainframe was working by "refreshing the monitor" I realised that Dan Brown knows far less about computers than he likes to think he does.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Oct 24, 2005
I think the reason The Da Vinci Code sold so well is the subject matter, everyone loves a good scandal and what is more scandalous than saying that Jesus had a thing for Mary Magdaline, look at all the trouble there was 20 odd years ago with the Last Temptation of Christ, the only reason people went to see it was to see what all the fuss was about and it's the same with the Da Vinci Code. The only reason people read it is because there was a load of hoo ha when it came out because of the subject matter
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 24, 2005
There certainly doesn't seem to be any other good reason for reading it.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 24, 2005
I found the Da Vinci code hilarious. I read it on a long plane journey (10 hours). My brain isn't able to think very well in aeroplanes because of the oxygen starvation, so it was great to have something that didn't require too much brain power.
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