My wife borrowed The DaVinci Code, which is the current fiction bestseller. Everyone seems to be reading it. It was a quick read, a real page turner. But it's not difficult to be a page turner. All you have to do is have fairly short chapters, and end each chapter on a suspensful note.
All in all, I thought the book was fun, but kind of stupid in a lot of ways. Without giving much away, I'd just like to say that I totally disagree with it's theory of the Holy Grail. The Grail is, as far as I've ever read, just an Welsh legend of a horn-of-plenty that got Christianized. This fits with how the grail is portrayed in the ancient Parisifal and Le Morte dArthur.
Other comments made in the book about how things like Disney movies and such are "really" about the Holy Grail make the author seem like a complete loon. And he really seems to take this stuff seriously, as opposed to Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, whose Illuminatus! trilogy took an approach which made fun of conspiracy theories instead of believing in them. And Umbertco Eco's Foucalt's Pendulum is wiser still in the ways of conspiracy.
Posted by ahyatt at January 19, 2004 10:16 AMwww.cs.unc.edu/~taylorr/davincicode.html
Posted by: Russell Taylor on February 9, 2004 05:34 PMPlease do not read this trash. It is a disgrace to Yahshua HaMashiach and Mary Magdalene. Satan is using Dan Brown to lead people away from the Messiah and onto the pathway to Hell. Dan Brown, if you are listening, you have dishonored YAHVEH and YAHSHUA to make millions of dollars. You had better pay it back quick to promote the good news of Yahshua (also called Jesus) or God Yahveh will hold you accountable at your judgement for leading his children into the hands of the enemy.
Posted by: Matt on November 15, 2004 04:11 AM