*snurfle* *snort*

[jeregenest]

bwahahahahaha!!!!

Can't...stop....laughing

Next I think Eco should slap Brown's face with a glove and demand that his honor be restored.

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[ptevis.livejournal.com]

Every time someone says, "I really liked The DaVinci Code," I hand them a copy of Foucault's Pendulum.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Every time someone says "I really liked The DaVinci Code," I drug them and sterilize them against their will, so they cannot breed.

I'd seen about the lawsuit before. Amazed it is still going forward.

[ptevis.livejournal.com]

My wife's parents liked it, and she turned out ok, so I think that's a little drastic.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

chrislehrich, who has the fascinating priviledge of being the only person I know with a phD in the area, had an interesting point l;ast night when he pointed out that there is a huge difference between being inspired by and just writing a character into an existing book. Which he felt the Da Vinci Code had done. Personally I never got beyond the first chapter so I don't know for sure.

The gossip about Biagent and Leigh was what really fascinated me.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

I got one of his other books, Angels and Demons, from some book of the month club thing and read it. It was a fun book to read, but the characters, writing and dialogue were all a bit too John Grisham-y for my taste. Sort of like fast food reading. Definitely interesting for those of us without a lot of background in such subjects, but it seems that anyone could have done the research and written a novel around it. The characters were very flimsy and stereotypical and some of the dailogue was actually embarrassing to read. I probably won't read The DaVinci Code, since I expect it to be pretty similar writing wise. There's my 2 cents!!

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I tried to read that book. I made it half way through before giving up in disgust.

[mytholder.livejournal.com]

Back before Dan Brown became flavour-of-the-month, cujovaltone ran a Hellboy game based on his stuff. We (the players) didn't know it was nicked from a novel, so we complimented the GM on the cheesy improbability of his dodgy pulp plot...

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

I will say that there are parts of the DC that are lifted almost word for word from their books; having read both, I was pretty surprised. Not that that means the suit has merit, but, still.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I don't think they really intend it to have merit. They just want a bigger slice of the pie.

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no doubt.