# I am so feckin' sick of The DaVinci Code! (lame)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 28, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586 "2005-03-28T08:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/61 "2005-03-29T22:51:36Z")
There’s a cartoon in I believe the current _New Yorker_ which shows an all DaVinci Code bookstore, selling only the book, and the books about the book.
You can always do what I did – read just the last chapter. People kept urging me to read the damn book, and I was kind of interested in knowing the big secret, so one day I picked up my parents copy and just skipped right to the end. It was very badly written and annoying, but the big plus is the reaction I now get when people ask me if I’ve read _The DaVinci Code_. Just watching them go apoplectic when I tell them that I only read the last chapter makes the grief well worth it.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/62 "2005-03-29T23:12:41Z")
All the secrets are revealed if you have A DaVinci Decoder Ring.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/63 "2005-03-29T23:20:35Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> What’s wrong with that?
It get kids to read. But it sucks.
It get kids to read. **But** it sucks.
It get kids to read. But it _ **sucks** _.
It get kids to read. But gives the idea the religion might not be all good, and furthermore proposes a cool conspiracy theory that I always found to be cool, back when I read [Holy Blood, Holy Grail](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440136482/qid=1112139561/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2849989-5068637?v=glance&s=books&n=507846).
_Ding!_
Cool 😃
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/64 "2005-03-30T02:49:11Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#):
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> It get kids to read. But it sucks.
The Harry Potter books are clever and decently written.
Since you mention religion, I’m going to assume you’re talking Dan Brown. I asked a question regarding Harry Potter.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/65 "2005-03-30T12:08:20Z")
Sorry for the confusion, jsgoddess. However, you understood me correctly when you figured my statement is ambiguous, able to be applied to HP books or the DC, minus the last line. I love the Harry Potter books. However, when post 56 said:
> [@gigi](#):
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> Was it “The Daily Show” that had Dan Brown on saying how, regardless of how you feel about it, the book has caused a resurgence in questions about spirituality and religion?
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> It was almost as bad as “At least ‘Harry Potter’ is getting kids interested in reading again.”
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> There aren’t enough rolling-eye smilies in the world.
I figured that was expressing the sentiment I jokingly expressed in my previous post. I might have been wrong about how gigi feels, but that is how I read it.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-feckin-sick-of-the-davinci-code-lame/296586/66 "2005-03-30T13:18:59Z")
I just don’t get the majority of the complaints about _The Da Vinci Code_ (except, of course, for the fact that his name was Leonardo, and Da Vinci just refers to where he’s from). Is it great literature? No. Is it true? No. But it was an enjoyable book. I liked the previous book (_Angels and Demons_) better, actually, but DVC was a pleasant way to spend a long plane trip.
I have rather eclectic taste in books. I enjoy things like _The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime_ (best piece of fiction I read last year), _A Mathemetician Reads the Newspaper_, _The Illiad_, _The Soul of a New Machine_, and _Under the Banner of Heaven_. I also, however, enjoy James Bond novels, Janet Evanovich’s silly mysteries, and (yes) Dan Brown’s books.
Why is enjoying Dan Brown’s books pitworthy? It’s the anti-DVC people I want to shake sometimes and say, “ **It’s fiction, people!** It’s just a novel! Get over it!” The fact that I enjoyed reading the book doesn’t mean that I believe any part of the storyline. I just thought it was fun to read.
And yes, by the way, it’s gotten a _lot_ of people more interested in history, and specifically in religious history. Is that really such a bad thing?
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