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15:30 / 13.04.05

is suffering from Dan Davinci Brown fatique, why now when the fucking tale has been around for centuries.?

15:35 / 13.04.05

A. Because it's an incredibly badly written bastardization of a dozen other books. NEXT.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:37 / 13.04.05

I wish everyone would shut up about Dan Brown. I don't want to read it but you make me feel like I've got to read it, just to see if it's as shit as everyone says.

Are there zombies in it?

15:38 / 13.04.05

...which has been dumbed down for the general populace. Next

Haus of Mystery

15:45 / 13.04.05

Dumbed down Zombies?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:49 / 13.04.05

BRAIIII- damn, it's on the tip of my tongue.

15:50 / 13.04.05

I don't want to read it but you make me feel like I've got to read it, just to see if it's as shit as everyone says.

You don't, and it's not. It's just profoundly mediocre.

Tryphena Absent

15:52 / 13.04.05

You do need to read the last paragraph of Angels and Demons though. I wouldn't bother with the rest of the book, the last paragraph tells you everything you need to know.

16:09 / 13.04.05

That is a horrible puishment to inflict on anyone nina...

16:28 / 13.04.05

I cant wait for the movie...its got Tom Hanks...so you know its going to be legit.

I think I'd prefer having Wilson in it.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:30 / 13.04.05

Does Tom Hanks get eaten by zombies?

19:44 / 13.04.05

Can I write a version which *does* have zombies in it?

I notice that the first parody has started being advertised on the Tube. "The Asti Spumante Code" or something. Reasonable, given that at any one time there is at least one person reading The Da Vinci Code in any carriage.

19:49 / 13.04.05

Haha, if you get irritated by the da vinci code now, where will you hide come july 16?

20:26 / 13.04.05

"The Asti Spumante Code"

Yeccch, not sure I want to know the big secret behind Asti.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:27 / 13.04.05

quitelikeAstiSpumentimuttermuttermutter.

Dammit, stop oppressing my CULTURE.

20:41 / 13.04.05

Eek! I seem to be unintentionally rubbing you wrong at every turn today, Mordant. I'm sorry! Let's be friends.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:22 / 13.04.05

(Oh, bugger, ibis? Argh no, shit, I didn't process the fact that it was you posting again or I'd have held my What Constitutes Foul Booze rant for another time, another place. I'm not hunting you across space and time for my own sick amusement, honest.)

Anyway...

Asti Spumante, Pomagne... I get why they're not as nice as proper booze but why, exactly, are they worse than Red Bull and [Insert trendy brand of spirit here].

I've just never undrestood why it was quote okay unquote to drink alcopops but not fake hellwine. See, if you actually just hate wine that is less than a tenner a bottle, that's one thing. But if you mock the Asti Spumenti (as you might yellow trainers) whilst necking some horribly expensive fusion of cranberry Bacardi Breezer and R. Whites' Lemonade with a homeopathic quantity of Some Melted Diamonds In A Tortured Russian Baby's Tears or whatever is the drinkfad these days, I fear you have lost my sympathies.

That will be all.

12:13 / 14.04.05

Ah, I make no bones about a cheap drink. It's not the cheapness of Asti. It's the sweetness. I have an abnormally small sweet tooth, you see. One bite of cake and I'm overwhelmed. So, I used to have this friend in college who'd always get Asti Spumante for us, and it seemed fun to get it, but then I'd go straight into a sugar coma. I like my drinks dry and bitter, with a pretzel on the side.

lonely as a cloud...

14:18 / 14.04.05

Mistoffelees - what happens july 16th...? Or is that a reference to something that happens in the book?
I'm kinda bemused at the industry that's sprung up around The Da Vinci Code, and the "Real Secrets Behind The Real Da Vinci" blah, and also at how Umberto Eco's really fun Foucault's Pendulum isn't getting a jot of publicity. As far as I can see.

14:36 / 14.04.05

at any one time there is at least one person reading The Da Vinci Code in any carriage.

There's been a shift towards Angels And Demons recently, so now might be a good time to write a cash-in parody of that (altho' if what I've heard of the final paragraph is true parody may prove something of a struggle)

14:40 / 14.04.05

Would someone please pm me the last paragraph? My curiosity is piqued.

14:49 / 14.04.05

I've heard people at work saying that both books are quite similar. I'm also curious about the ending of the new one now though! Might have to sneak into a bookstore to read it.

My mum sent me the sodding Da Vinci Code all the way from Australia for xmas. Because, y'know, I'm into books. At least she tried I guess. And now I have to listen to her asking me why can't I write books like this guy. After all, he sells millions! And why is my writing always so miserable? Mind you she probably has a point. Still, it's probably an improvement on when she used to ask me why I didn't write like J. K. Rowlling. Baby steps ...

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:04 / 14.04.05

I've heard people at work saying that both books are quite similar

Angels and Demons is in effect a prototype of The da Vinci Code. When it didn't sell, he obviously strip-mined its plot and characters.

15:26 / 14.04.05

I'm kinda bemused at the industry that's sprung up around The Da Vinci Code, and the "Real Secrets Behind The Real Da Vinci" blah, and also at how Umberto Eco's really fun Foucault's Pendulum isn't getting a jot of publicity. As far as I can see.

When I was working in a bookstore last year, I would get the "What would you reccomend to someone who liked The Da Vinci Code?" question at least every day. I always told them to get Focault's Pendulum... I managed to sell a few copies that way.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:38 / 14.04.05

What's the Anti-Dan Brown. Is it Tim Lahaye?

18:40 / 14.04.05

C.S. Lewis

19:40 / 14.04.05

"What would you reccomend to someone who liked The Da Vinci Code?"

A lobotomy?

20:02 / 14.04.05

Holy Fucking Blood and the Cunting Grail*

(*not an accurate representation of the book title.)

unheimlich manoeuvre

20:04 / 14.04.05

What's the Anti-Dan Brown. Is it Tim Lahaye?

Aldous Huxley or Charles Dickens?
Does Dan Brown warrant an opposite?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:57 / 14.04.05

Not read it myself, (other than the first chapter, which seemed gripping enough. Not enough to make me read the second, strangely) but the thing I wasnt to know, which nobody I know who's read it seems able to tell me, is IS IT ANY GOOD AS A THRILLER? Subject matter aside.

I'm none too tempted to read it, as it seems their silence might be read as a "no".

21:25 / 14.04.05

It's a pot-boiler. Entirely plot-driven, since the characters are shallow, shallow.

Only the twists propel it forward, and the chapters are all very, very short.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:27 / 14.04.05

That can work... does it?

21:30 / 14.04.05

cloud:
what happens july 16th...? Or is that a reference to something that happens in the book?

Harry Potter IV happens on july 16th. And whoever gets sensitive about the da vinci hype now, better starts looking for a place to hide then.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:12 / 14.04.05

Apart from people who like one and not the other, presumably. OHNOYOUCAN'TDOTHAT.

Why do... Oh never mind.

alejandrodelloco

00:57 / 15.04.05

KOMPRESSOR CRUSH DAN BROWN (and Paul Simon) BECAUSE DAN BROWN (and Paul Simon) LACK INDUSTRIAL MIGHT!!!!!1!

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