Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

[Otto]

Never felt any drive to read that book, and for the movie I can wait
until it's shown on free tv.

2006/8/10, The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>:
> > Yeah, I spent a lot of time yelling @ TDVC.  In
> > public.
>
> My biggest problem with "The DaVinci Code" was its idiot characters. I mean,
> Dan Brown has written these characters, see, that are supposed to be
> GENIUSES in their fields of religion, language,. Antiquity cryptography,
> etc. And then, every dozen pages or so, they all stand around with their
> tongues hanging out, stumped at some moronic "puzzle" that any half-way
> intelligent reader has guessed by the time his eyes hit the period ending
> the sentence.
>
> I shit you not -- at one point, a pair of linguistic scholars are staring
> befuddled at ENGLISH HANDWRITING IN REVERSE and they have no idea what it
> is. Once even remarks something to the effect that it looks "Semitic" or
> "Aramaic" or something. Oh my fucking God.
>
> It's like having Umberto Eco, Douglas Hofstadter, and Paula Frederiksen
> being completely flamboozled by a pre-movie word-scramble of CHESS JURIST.
>
> --Quail
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