So.... The Da Vinci Code
Well I've read The Da Vinci Code and it seems like a bog-standard airport novel thriller with the addition of a couple of days of library research and occasional reference to a Lonely Planet Europe guide or similar. Presumably it got a fair bit of promotion when it came out, but why it has developed into a phenomenon is utterly beyond me.
Posting may be non-existent for the next few days since Castle Towers shopping centre, in the far north-western suburbs of Sydney, despite having more opportunities for consumer frenzy than you would think possible, has only one public internet machine. I guess you are supposed to buy a computer instead.
posted by Natalie Bennett at 4/01/2005 04:19:00 am
6 Comments:
I think you'll probably enjoy Language Log's review(s) of Da Vinci Code:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001628.html
(I haven't read the book. Someone offered it to me a couple of days after I'd read the review, and I passed.)
True. If you could write to the formula, and get a publisher to give you the promotion, then you could later write proper stuff.
very true - i thought the actual writing was less than inspiring (or captivating). the research into the secret society was the best (and only) good part.
of course my medical DaVinci code post (i think you read it) sucked too!
I'm not sure there's anything new about litereary trash. Having just been in the bookshop I note the latest Wilbur Smith is out - the display takes up half the window. He's been around for donkeys years and could be the definition of low standards.
Without wanting to sound petty, I do believe that in the time of www anyone that can string a couple of sentences together has a decent shot at becoming a writer of consequence. There is so much to cut and paste from that a distinctive thought turns irrelvant. Da Vinci Code is a case in point.
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