The Da Vinci Code (was Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

Entropy wrote:
> It is a very interesting story, and I'd suggest picking up "The
> DaVinci Code" if you haven't already read it.  It's fiction, but 
it's
> got lots of non-fic information about the Priori Scion, DaVinci, 
and
> the theory that Mary Magdelene is the Holy Grail.


I didn't like 'The Da Vinci Code' at all, really. I thought that all 
the Da Vinci theories that Dan Brown worked into the books ended up 
having no impact whatsover on the actual series of events the 
characters followed. It was like he was telling the story of some 
people solving a code, and he just wanted to insert a whole lot of 
backstory that never had any immediate influence on solving the code 
at hand. After all, the characters solved Jaques' codes, and just 
spoke about Da Vinci's.

I do find the whole backstory about Da Vinci and the Priori 
interesting, however. I think I would enjoy reading a non-fiction 
book about it better. The story besides the historical backstory was 
very flimsy and very cliched, IMO.

~<(Queen Laura)>~