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It's so easy to use and very informative.

I'm re reading The Da Vinci Code because the movie is due out soon. It's surprising the results that you get bu looking up items in the book.

For example, did you know that you can buy a cryptex online?

Does anyone else use Wikipedia a lot?

Take care,

Gordon.

I've read the Da Vinci Code, it is pretty good, but don't plan to see the movie probably. My daughter will though, and is reading my copy of the book now. She will give me a good review-if she is watching the movie and not her boyfriend!

Ha-ha-we would pile up the car with 5-6 girls, and go to the drive-in. We were never in the car! Strolling up and down the rows, talking to friends, flirting. And if you went with your boyfriend........................

Drive in Movies were big in my day...guess what they are coming back in a big way

Oh and yes Wikipedia is very cool..

Can't understand the fuss about the Da Vinci Code. It's plagiarised and badly plotted. Dan whatsits too full of his own importance to bother about writing a well-crafted story. didn't bother reading his second book because my old man did and said it was the same as the first.

And it's not going to destroy the Church.

gordonartist wrote: It's so easy to use and very informative.

I'm re reading The Da Vinci Code because the movie is due out soon. It's surprising the results that you get bu looking up items in the book.

For example, did you know that you can buy a cryptex online?

Does anyone else use Wikipedia a lot?

Take care,

Gordon.


:wah: I did the exact same thing when reading The Da Vinci Code

I think that Wikipedia is a really good site, it certainly has a lot of informative things on there that have really helped me learn a lot, since I first found it.

Tigerlily wrote: Can't understand the fuss about the Da Vinci Code. It's plagiarised and badly plotted. Dan whatsits too full of his own importance to bother about writing a well-crafted story. didn't bother reading his second book because my old man did and said it was the same as the first.

And it's not going to destroy the Church.


I read the Da Vinci Code and enjoyed it - I cannot comment on the information content as I don't have enough background knowledge but I did enjoy it as a story.

I then followed it up with Digital Fortress. Unfortunately I do know something about computers, codes, cyphers and the like and the author obvoiusly didn't. The holes in the plot ruined any possible enjoyment from the story - it made me wonder if the Da Vinci Code was similarly flawed.

One thing that does make me laugh is the sudden spate of people who are treating the Da Vinci Code as if it's a leaned treatise and meant to be the truth.

It's a work of fiction written as a novel with the "facts" adjusted to suit the storyline.

Bryn Mawr, my comment about plagiarism was based on the fact that I read all the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail stuff they first time round, but the authors there never pretended it was anything other than speculation. It was extremely well-written.

I have a very well developed plot-sense, if that's what it's called, and the Da Vinci Code is full of descriptions of actions that don't gel. People run through doors followed by other people and don't shut the door behind them - to name one irritating example of many. They don't take elementary precautions while supposedly super-intelligent. The characters come across as idiots and I remember feeling that the end was a massive anti-climax.

Tigerlily wrote: Bryn Mawr, my comment about plagiarism was based on the fact that I read all the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail stuff they first time round, but the authors there never pretended it was anything other than speculation. It was extremely well-written.


At least that was proposing a serious theory - if speculative. The DVC is purely written as a novel not to be mistaken for fact

Tigerlily wrote: I have a very well developed plot-sense, if that's what it's called, and the Da Vinci Code is full of descriptions of actions that don't gel. People run through doors followed by other people and don't shut the door behind them - to name one irritating example of many. They don't take elementary precautions while supposedly super-intelligent. The characters come across as idiots and I remember feeling that the end was a massive anti-climax.


Ah - I missed things like that. My objections to Digital Fortress were technical but so much so that I couldn't enjoy the plot at all.