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March 2, 2005
October 30, 2005
Reading the infamous
"Da Vinci Code" (2003)
by Dan Brown:
The pov:
A floating, fractured view,
oscillating between greater or
lesser knowlege than the lead A twist: the one
characters. viewpoint that
the narrative
The main male does not visit is
character is weak, the mastermind!
colorless.
Only a little better is the female
lead, which should be an important A monster: psychotic,
role in a book calling for recognition limping albino masochist.
of the "sacred feminine".
Her decade long emotional reaction is
a key element of the backstory; her
impulses drive the foreground story
and neither are terribly believeable.
The novelty here is
elsewhere though: it's
the sense that the
author may be serious. The background
material seems
But that intro! straight out
"All secret of "The
ceremonies Templar
guaranteed Revelation" --
accurate." How which I happen
*can* this be to own a copy
taken seriously? of... (oh don't
ask why).
And that book is
Strange that this book has *so* obviously
provoked so many extensive cranky and
debunkeries... why so crazy... it
nervous? doesn't seem
likely that a Dan
Brown would take
Perhaps the forces it as much more
of doctrinaire Christianity than fodder for
are not quite such the a story.
unassailable juggernaut
that they often seem?
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