The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

I just finished reading this book, the da vinci code... geez I luv it so so much... i mean it opened my eyez zo much, and it made me realize that the world that we're livin is filled up to the limit with simols, and all those ancient stuff... it obsessed me! I mean now i have a full CD filled up with Da Vinci stuff... I'm tryin' to discover simbols in different paintings of da vinci...
So has anyone red that book?!

 

no. but i hope to over the christmas holidays along with paradise lost...eep! still havent started either of them. :H
Roly.xxx

 

you must read it... it's really cool...it's one of my new passions... along with lotr

 

I have heard about this book, Suppose to be fucking excellent. Really want to read it.

 

i read it few months ago, just because everyone seemed to be talking about it. i was really blown away with all of the information dan brown gives us to think about, and i tripped out when i looked at da vinci's last supper and realized that it's a woman sitting next to christ. how did i never see that? i wish the book had been written in a more rugged format, rather than in that crystal clean popular fiction style.

 

I've read both Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. I thought they both were great. I've actually heard theories long before Dan Browns novel about Jesus having a wife and the other Christ related stuff. Dan Brown has actually written alot more, but the other stuff was not as big of a hit I guess.

 

doesnt angels and demons have to do with basically the same ideas as Da vinci code? mary magdalene, christ's bloodline, etc? im trying to find out if its worth my time to read.

 

dude, that book is under the fiction genre..yea its a great read. but nothing in that book is real, besides the facts about da vinci and how he was in cults and what not......think for yourself, do you really think jesus had a wife??? maybe, but just because dan brown says so doesnt mean its real....yea symbology is cool

 

The point of the book is to keep an open mind and not ASSUME anything. Why couldn't Jesus have a wife? Because the bible says so? The book is about possibilities, not about some "truth". I believe the book should be read with an open mind rather than a closed, vindicitive attitude.

The book is a great work of fiction and one of the best new books written. It is a book that you either "get it or don't."

Peace & love
kim

 

I've only read Angels and Demons but I liked it a lot, I loved how everything tied into each other

 

i agree with what antelope is saying... i think the most interesting stuff in the book is not the information concerning theories on christ, but just the small tidbits about symbology and word origins--those were the things that blew me away. some people fully accept the text as if dan brown is God himself trying to set the record straight. its not. obviously its fiction. however, the thing that really annoys me are the people who negate the validity of the book as a whole because it presents such outlandish ideas. as soon as the book is mentioned, the first comment they have to say is always, "well, it doesnt matter...it's all bullshit." i think they're the ones who need to be reminded that the book is indeed fiction.

 

hehe that book is funny. it definitely keeps you reading it, but it's like it's targeted at 12-13 year olds.. it reads like a nancy drew or hardy boys mystery with tidbits of history thrown in.

to my knowledge, there is no statement "JESUS DID NOT HAVE A WIFE" in any of the canonical gospels. and of course if you look into the gnostic gospels (particularly that of, um, mary hehe), there's great evidence toward mary magdelane being not only a disciple but indeed jesus' favorite disciple.

however, dan brown certainly did not discover any of this he essentially capitalized on a theological debate by turning it into a teenager's mystery novel which grabbed the attention of a lot of adults due to the religious subject matter and the way americans so desparately want to be thought of as at least outwardly pious. so good for him i guess hehe.

 

I'm reading Angels and Demons because the DaVinci Code is always checked out at the library. >.< I'm really interested in the DaVinci Code because I'm going to the Louvre this summer so I'll be seeing some of DaVinci's works.

What Dan Brown writes about has long been a theory, so it's not like he's pulling it out of his butt. Since I live in the deep South, there's nothing that amuses me more as people trying to ban the book because it's "lies about Jesus" when in reality, no one can know for that for sure or even know for sure that he existed.

 

...look who's sitting next to Jebus...

 

that whole "it looks like a woman" thing just struck me as "so what?"

i thought it was funny how the painting was presented as evidence of the mary magdalene theory. now brown did not say that exactly, but it was definitely implicative of "hey look at this painting, it's a woman next to jesus! it must be true!" but then that painting is just da vinci's own opinion.

i thought it was so funny how that female protagonist in that book was all gasping like "oh my god! you're right!" hehe

 

It's all based on theory. Who can possibly know the truth? I gotta admit, though, Dan Brown's got a really good case in this...

 

About the Last Supper, a lot of historians, theologians, and art experts say that the person at Jesus's right is not a woman. They say it's John, who is a very young man and is almost always portrayed as rather afemminate and beardless. If it's Mary Magdalene, then where's John?

 

Either way...whether it targets 12-13 year olds, or adults...whether it is fiction, or theory, I thought it was a very good book. It held my interest to the last page, and although I've always been open-minded, it helped me look at things in a different way.

 

There is an even better book (can't remember the name) talking about all of the half-truths and full out lies in The Da Vanci Code. It is very interesting any fan of The Da Vanci Code should pick it up.

 

Apologies. I just began a new thread on the book and see that there are several already. To repeat and paste in:

The author of this book is not accepting correspondence even from major TV companies right now. He was just completely exposed on a major UK TV show over two hours.

In this novel, Dan Brown opens by stating it is a "FACT" that the Priory of Sion are a secret society which has existed since 1099. He surely knows he is duping millions of readers?

It has been known for at least twelve years that this "Priory" is a silly hoax perpetrated by just three Frenchmen beginning in the 1950s only, two of whom admitted to the hoax. They lived in the village of Sion and became a kind of prank club.

So how come Dan Brown can inflame millions, and his publishers, Random House, allow him to, when he's claiming his fictions to be fact?