The Da Vinci Code

[Ron_Mexico 4,220]

what makes you think I was talking about you? I was, but what made you think that?and I didn't read it.I am a music snob, so I can kind of relate. If its on the radio and popular, I get turned off a little. Which is stupid I know.I don't read deep stuff like you fine scholars. I want to be entertained when I read, not have to work. I read for fun. I like true stuff. Biographies, autobiographies, crap like that. I like fiction as well, and I agree, you can learn something from everything you read. Just because its fiction, doesn't mean there aren't facts about details thrown in. Reading is exercise for the mind.I've read most of the crappy stuff you listed, but then again, I don't read to have a list that is intended to impress people.For the record, a book that I loved was Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Read it way before the movie. Blows it away. Just my opinion.

[runthemover 39]

I am probably going tonight to see it. Anybody see it yet since it came out last night?

saw a matinee yesterday cheaper, nobody there, awesome. anyway I watched it with my brother who hasnt read the book, he says he liked it. I have read the book, I thought it was o k . not as terrible as the reviews give it but not great obviously. it does kinda drag a lil bit cuz it's 2 1/2 hrs long. so all in all I thought it's not bad but it's not good

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

what makes you think I was talking about you? I was, but what made you think that?and I didn't read it.I am a music snob, so I can kind of relate. If its on the radio and popular, I get turned off a little. Which is stupid I know.I don't read deep stuff like you fine scholars. I want to be entertained when I read, not have to work. I read for fun. I like true stuff. Biographies, autobiographies, crap like that. I like fiction as well, and I agree, you can learn something from everything you read. Just because its fiction, doesn't mean there aren't facts about details thrown in. Reading is exercise for the mind.I've read most of the crappy stuff you listed, but then again, I don't read to have a list that is intended to impress people.For the record, a book that I loved was Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Read it way before the movie. Blows it away. Just my opinion.

You were talking about me? Really? I was just looking for a chance to use that Di Vinci Chode pun.Didn't exactly take Inspector Gadget to figure it out, it's not like this is the first time jumped into a thread with nothing to add other than a slam on me. It wounds me deeply, truly it does. That being said, do yourself a favor, and skip the Di Vinci Code, your brain cells will thank you.

[Dirtydutch 8]

Di Vinci Code? More like Di Vinci CHODE Har har har, I kill me..

What an unbelievable coincidence! My new novel, due for release this fall, is called The Da Vinci Chode. It's about a disgustingly popular book, and a secret order that decoded its encrypted meaning: its author is an enormous chode. The rest will blur together, but before you get six pages in, there will be ten improper ellipses, and it will read like a screenplay.

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

What an unbelievable coincidence! My new novel, due for release this fall, is called The Da Vinci Chode. It's about an disgustingly popular book, and a secret order that decoded its encrypted meaning: its author is an enormous chode. The rest will blur together, but before you get six pages in, there will be ten improper ellipses, and it will read like a screenplay.

oooh... I am sweating right through my axe deoderant with anticipation for it.

[nickforgot 0]

i dont want to watch it because it will change my religion and my priest said it is the devil's work

[Dirtydutch 8]

i dont want to watch it because it will change my religion and my priest said it is the devil's work

I'd be a little more highly present in this thread, but most of the people I know are retarded Baptists, who don't understand the fiction isn't supposed to be real, and can't figure out how the hell to shut the fuck up about it. Few of them have read it, and all feel it should be burned.This has turned me off to its ridicule.

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

I'd be a little more highly present in this thread, but most of the people I know are retarded Baptists, who don't understand the fiction isn't supposed to be real, and can't figure out how the hell to shut the fuck up about it. Few of them have read it, and all feel it should be burned.

Ah yes.. I was raised Baptists.. just going over the joys of a youth spent being prohibitied from dancing, and hatting Fa gg ots.

[nickforgot 0]

so i watched brokeback mountain the other nightcomedy of the year!

[Dirtydutch 8]

Ah yes.. I was raised Baptists.. just going over the joys of a youth spent being prohibitied from dancing, and hatting Fa gg ots.

Religiously, I'm still Christian, but I only know two others who aren't borderline socialist. I stopped going to church years ago, and can't envision a future where Christians will stop thinking that dancing is wrong, and The Bible should be enforced by our government.I found this review of the movie amusing:"Luckily, Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist"

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

This has turned me off to its ridicule.

Yeah, its just another one of those cases of people being pissed off about the totally wrong thing. People shouting down the DVC because it threatens their own fictional view of the universe, not because it's shtty. I was at my local, left wing indy bookstore, picking up a copy of "Consider the Lobster, " a bunch of non fiction essays by David Foster Wallace ( absolutely hysterical, I know you'd love it Dutch), and I saw that they had a huge DVC display, in atticipation of the mass of people wanting to buy it now that the movie is out. So when I was at the cash register, I asked the hippy girl and guy who were working the register, in a polite and eagar way of a moron, what they thought of the DVC. They book looked kind of ackward for a second, looking at eachother, and saying how they hadn't had a chance to read it yet. At this point, I dropped the charade, and said don't bother, it's the worst book I've read in 5 years, since "Left Behind" which made them laugh, getting to let the nervousness out of having to be fakily enthusiastic about a book they had no intention of reading. But then the girl said, " well, actually, I think it's really cool it's causing all this controvesy, and getting people to think about all these issues' And I said yeah, to bad it takes a shtty book to get people to talk about stupid issues. " And that's really how I feel about this book. It's terrible, and the controversy is stupid. I'm said that I live in a world t hat sells 50 jillion copies of the DVC, and still gives a crap if Jesus had children. Imagine if they came out with a book Odin's Blood that said that Loki wasn't really Thor's step brother, but was truly Odin's son, and everone started flipping out about it, having book burnings, boycotts, deomonstrations, psyduo experts on the Loki lineage appearing on the O'Reily factor to get shouted down. Meanwhile, no one seemed to notice that the book was written for action movie and video game addicted 10 year olds, because america's attention for reading has athrophied so far that no one notices it's a crap fest.

I found this review of the movie amusing:"Luckily, Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist"

And that's not much of a compliement.

[Dirtydutch 8]

David Foster Wallace essays are one of few nonsexual thing that can give me a woody.

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

Religiously, I'm still Christian , but I only know two others who aren't borderline socialist. I stopped going to church years ago, and can't envision a future where Christians will stop thinking that dancing is wrong, and The Bible should be enforced by our government.I found this review of the movie amusing:"Luckily, Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist"

Ayn Rand wouldn't aprrove, and neither do I.Good link, however. Though Siskel > Ebert. When I lived in chicago, the three icons of the chicago media that I loved, Harry Carry, Mike Royko, and Gene Siskel all died, plus Chris Farley. I'm a plague on that city.

[brvheart 1,760]

on a side note... I saw MI3 tonight and it was quite good.

[dEv~ 19]

Saw the movie, read the book. Book > Movie. Both were made to make money and they've been hugely successful in that. I enjoyed both of them and Dan Brown is just counting his money while we debate this.

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

Saw the movie, read the book. Book > Movie. Both were made to make money and they've been hugely successful in that. I enjoyed both of them and Dan Brown is just counting his money while we debate this.

QFTI'm not hating the player, just the game.

[BearCanada 0]

If you want to read a great book about a fictionalized acount of Jesus I seriously reccomend Lamb by Christopher Moore. Seriously, check it out.Bear

[BigDMcGee 3,354]

If you want to read a great book about a fictionalized acount of Jesus I seriously reccomend Lamb by Christopher Moore. Seriously, check it out.Bear

Last temptation of Christ is another beauit

[custom36 5]

Saw the movie, read the book. Book > Movie. Both were made to make money and they've been hugely successful in that. I enjoyed both of them and Dan Brown is just counting his money while we debate this.

Lol, no_shit?There shouldn't be any debate, considering it's a fiction book. The fact that the Catholic Church is this upset about it shows how insecure they are about the base of their religion.

[CardWarfare 4]

i just saw the movie tonight and i absolutely despised it... they found a way to make a fairly entertaining book into a dragged-out grinder of a movie.. everything was over done, the acting wasn't great, and they changed a few things from the book and made them all worse... i did enjoy the book, say what you will bigd, and was really looking forward to the movie... after seeing it, i'm thoroughly disappointed, and want my $20 back (hadda buy two tickets, one for the lady=extra kick in the sac)

[timwakefield 68]

I heard that at Cannes the film received loud boos and hisses.

[CardWarfare 4]

I heard that at Cannes the film received loud boos and hisses.

people were walking out of the theater tonight.. i wanted to do the same but didn't for the sake of the lady and my $20 .. i was hoping something of value would happen, and theyd find a decent way to adapt the book .. nope

[timwakefield 68]

people were walking out of the theater tonight.. i wanted to do the same but didn't for the sake of the lady and my $20 .. i was hoping something of value would happen, and theyd find a decent way to adapt the book .. nope

Damn, my girlfriend wants to see it really badly. Maybe if I show her some reviews....

[CardWarfare 4]

Damn, my girlfriend wants to see it really badly. Maybe if I show her some reviews....

if you've never read the book, the movie is mediocre at best..if you have read the book, it flirts with awful

[Oziumrules 0]

Saw it last night. I give at 6.5 out of 10, very slow. I never read the book but my girlfriend did and said the movie was no where near the quality of the book.