Dan Brown's Angels & Demons

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We currently have two books on the Da Vinci Code at work- Cracking The Da Vinci Code and Decoding The Da Vinci Code. They both purport to be guides to the fact/fiction aspects of the original.

I read a little bit of the former yesterday, and it’s nice to know that Mary Magdelene and Jesus were definitely married, and that their kids became the Merovingian Emperors. And that Paul was just trying to create a nice, non-offensive religion. Of course. It all comes clear, now.

I think I’m just annoyed at the books because there’s so much hype, and so many people seem to be treating Dan Brown as Giver Of The Truth. That’s the impression I get working in a bookstore, anyway.

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Using a tarp sounds plausible. Jumping out of a helicopter with one sounds plausible. Surviving the “sudden stop” at the end is what hits me as not plausible. :wink:

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A&D wasn’t bad - probably because I skipped over parts of it. I read DVC first and thought it was pretty entertaining. It was interesting because I’d just seen something on the History Channel (or one of those) about the “other” gospels. I also got a kick out of the Affleck/Damon movie Dogma which seems to appear on the Comedy Channel every week or so.

I started Digital Fortress but can’t get very far because the pattern is so obvious. Maybe I’ll just read the last two chapters and call it done.

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I read Digital Fortress. Not as formulaic as the others, I don’t think. YMMV.