9.21.2005
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown, 454pgs, paperback
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Overall Grade: C
I didn't have much but ire for this book until all my friends and family told me to just read the dang thing so that I could validate my opinion. So I did. May I first say that Brown did a fair to decent job of story-telling. He does pretty good at presenting how normal people like Sophie and Langdon would think & act in extreme situations. Things I did not like: obviously most all of the church history is largely biased and at least slanted to his own purposes (as I expected--might they consider Semetic religions and other ancient middle-eastern religions that did not have higher reverence for divine females?). The Church is not portrayed in a very good light and is vilified right up to the end. In addition to that, Brown does a good enough job story-telling that most people don't notice how inanely boring it is when he jumps off on expository tangents all the time. I personally thought his pace suffer because of this, and just his general inexperience at writing. If you haven't heard of this book, get your head out of the sand!
Amazon site
Overall Grade: C
I didn't have much but ire for this book until all my friends and family told me to just read the dang thing so that I could validate my opinion. So I did. May I first say that Brown did a fair to decent job of story-telling. He does pretty good at presenting how normal people like Sophie and Langdon would think & act in extreme situations. Things I did not like: obviously most all of the church history is largely biased and at least slanted to his own purposes (as I expected--might they consider Semetic religions and other ancient middle-eastern religions that did not have higher reverence for divine females?). The Church is not portrayed in a very good light and is vilified right up to the end. In addition to that, Brown does a good enough job story-telling that most people don't notice how inanely boring it is when he jumps off on expository tangents all the time. I personally thought his pace suffer because of this, and just his general inexperience at writing. If you haven't heard of this book, get your head out of the sand!
Labels: genre: fiction, media: book
