HUMAN said:
Anybody know when The Da Vinci Code will be released in paperback? I don't feel like giving Brown $17 and using up some of my shelf space.
I also wish they would have done Angels & Demons first. The Science vs. Religion argument is a more potent debate today where as Jesus fathering a child is a subject people could care less about because it isn't true.
Oh well, maybe they'll pull the same thing with these books with Langdon like they with Tom Clancy's novels and Jack Ryan. They had three (I believe) different actors play the same character and the adaptations didn't come out in chronological order. Maybe we'll get an Angels & Demons movie one day.
I agree, I too think Angels & Demons was the far better book. The Da Vinci Code gets more recognition as it had a lot of controversy on being published. Angels & Demons is the better book, it has the better story and certainly raises more important questions.
Also, the book is already released in paperback form, that's the copy I own.
Originally posted by Darthkushdoes anyone have a synopsis of what the book actually is? All i've gathered from you guys' post is that some scientists research some rumors that jesus and mary magdalene had a baby in secret and that their are clues to the holy grail in the da vinci's mona lisa? Is that right? is that the general gist of it?
Harvard professor Robert Langdon recieves an urgent late night phone call while on business in Paris. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizzare riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci-and suggest the answer to a mystery that streches deep into the vaults of history.
Unless Langond and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever...
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I am not religious in any way. I wouldn't go so far to say I am an athiest but I do question most things that have been printed in the Bible and have been told to us throughout the years.
The Da Vinci Code is relativly harmless. It merely takes a 'What If' approach to the story of Jesus. It's nothing to be taken seriously. And the fact that the Vatican are so pissed about and make their anger known worldwide, does nothing more then help this bok reach more hands. The can be said for the movie when it is eventually released.
Although, I have watched some documentries on the subject, and some people (including Priests), suggest that some of the claims made in the book are not as far fetched as some would have us believe.
