NP: Dan Brown _Da Vinci Code_

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 1 of 2.

Mark wrote Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #4350:
> I paid no attention whatsoever to the Da Vinci Code thing,
> and haven't read it and frankly don't plan to.
> But to those of us who have read it I ask:

> Compare and contrast The Da Vinci Code with Gravity's
> Rainbow,
> in which P conjoins historical fact with fiction that is
> often all-but-indistinguishable from fact in a way that is
> perhaps meant to leave us without a clear figure-ground
> understanding of either.


I get no closer to books than drilling for web glosses, but...

        Best synopsis:
http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm
 Dismantling The Da Vinci Code By Sandra Miesel

> So, why bother with such a close reading of a worthless novel?
> The answer is simple: The Da Vinci Code takes esoterica mainstream.

        lengthy rebuttal:
http://www.tektonics.org/davincicrude.htm

        What Brown's novel taps into...
http://www.leaderu.com/focus/davincicode.html

        litcrit gloss:
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/mysteryreviews/fr/daVinciCode.htm?iam=metaresults&terms=dan+brown

        light spoiler:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d50.html

        Just the facts, Ma'am:
http://www.livescience.com/history/050524_davinci_code.html

        Opus Dei debunk:
http://www.opusdei.org/art.php?w=32&p=7017

        Atheists Con quickly:
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/115976.htm?terms=Dan+Brown
> I realized that it was just recycled garbage of no real value

        Pro w/info
http://www.mp2kmag.com/mappoint/discussion/da_vinci_code--5395.html
> reintroduces the sacred feminine into modern society.
> Brown is highlighting the closer gender equality...
> Langdon proposes that early Jewish traditions shockingly
> included 'ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less' (309).

        Transcript:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4872205/
> 10 books on the shelves, all responding...
> we're joined by the authors of ...
> Reverend James Garlow / _Cracking Da Vinci‘s Code._
> Reverend Erwin Lutzer / _The Da Vinci Deception._

        I barely ken German, but love this word: "Symbolologe"
        Note the German book title is _Sakrileg_ von Dan Brown.
http://buchwurm.powermetal.de/book/anzeigen.php?id_book=184
> Nach dem Showdown im Vatikan (siehe "Illuminati") ist nun ein
> knappes Jahr vergangen und Harvard-Symbolologe Robert Langdon
> ist ein wenig zur Ruhe gekommen.

        Or Symbologen?
http://www.libri.de/shop/action/productDetails;jsessionid=692DF64F9EF09092BB39F6D806B6DF4D.www01?artiId=2602303
> die Polizei und den Symbologen Robert Langdon

        Whose name is Borne?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001628.html

        Personal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3541342.stm

        Opines:
http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/dan%20brown.html

        ", Paid:
http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/reviews.html

        Spoof:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i8429

        Movie:
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=0f7cb467de2e6c22

        Hearsay:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-25618

        Misc:
http://altreligion.about.com/od/thedavincicode/
http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_davincicode.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0%2C1284%2C58378%2C00.html

        Frankly, Fr:
http://bd-livres.krinein.com/Brown-Da-Vinci-Code-2065.html

        Bio, Fr:
http://www.valmauges.centresocial.org/page/pages/portrait.htm

        Tantalizing mention -> TOC only:
http://www.biblia-cerf.com/
> Bibl'actu presente un long entretien
> d'Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt et Daniel Marguerat
> apporte l'eclairage du bibliste sur les
> affirmations du Da Vinci Code.
http://www.biblia-cerf.com/sommaire.php?refNumero=38

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