Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

[K. Michael Babcock]

Unless it's shown on (now defunct) Mystery Science Theater 3000, it
probably isn't worth sitting through.

On 8/10/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>