Dan Brown~ Discussions

[daryl]

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With all the hype going on around the works of Dan Brown(specifically the Da Vinci Code), I feel that there are lots of good authors that have gone overlooked.

Allow me to point out the following...

The DVC is an average book. It is very predictable. And no, it is not a long book. It is a thick book. It has big letters and small pages. And as far as aesthetics is concerned, there is nothing extraordinary about Mr. Brown's writing style.

Despite comments by a lot of people that it is original, many authors have already flirted with excommunication by writing about the alleged affair of Jesus Christ with Mary Magdalene decades before. And I am very sure when I say that they have done a better job. Some of these books for example are Foccault's Pendulum(I reccomend that you read this; naa siya sa National), Holy Blood Holy Grail, Church Blood, and many more. Yes, DVC-fans the whole Holy Grail -> Sangreal -> Sangre -> Blood. I know. I know.

And another thing, you can feel as if Mr. Brown is dying to turn his book into a movie. I mean, did the bad guys really have to get caught at NIGHT and while it's RAINING?

With regards to Angels and Demons, I will have to admit that it is a good book.

With regards to his other books, I have no right to comment on them because I have not read them.

This is just my opinion. I have tried to make this as constructive as I can possibly can. You are also entitled to your own opinion. I have no right to tell you what to read.

NOTE: I did not start this thread with an intention to flame Mr. Brown(well, maybe naay gamay hehe). And I know that you'll probably place this in your Friendster bulletins with the title: "Pataka Ra Ni Siya". Also, please do not make your comments personal. And please do not beat me up when you see me walking in the mall or some other random place. I have nothing against you.

[yen]

For me, constructive criticism is ok. Pero, little doubt there will be people who might feel defensive.

Don't worry about me though. I'm staying on the neutral area when it comes to Dan Brown's books. I actually just bought the Da Vinci Code because I thought it was about Leonardo da Vinci, whom I admire very much. I was very surprised when I got to the part about Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

[daryl]

Nanghuwam ra ko hehe. I read it out of curiousity. Daghan man gud sige ingon nga angay nako basahon.

Yeah, nag expect na ko daan nga daghan ma defensive. Kibaw gani ko nga "risky" kunohay ni akong gibuhat. Bahala na. Hehe.

[kenoidz]

i bliv he did a grt job n wrting his buks (especially DVC and A&D)...but as i cn c many authors hv don it betr b4 he did...pro maybe na-controvrsyl rni iya coz timing sa tym nga dghn probs ang church....lyk prsts dt wntd 2 hv a fam, blablabla....bt i ges evry1 has d ryt 2 bliv nd nt 2 bliv dba?....anywys, f u r rili a relgius prsn nd tke DB's buks positivly, u cn c dt it cn (n 1 way or anthr) strngthn ur faith to Him...wel, its my own opinion lng...dunno sa inu...

peace out...

[lunateec22]

well, his crticisms and revelations are being backed up by facts and evidences.

its hard to argue with that and given the fact that his books are widely recornizable and is considered as reputable, dan brown is at its best indeed. :mrgreen:

[samokan]

His writing pattern is/was very obvious. After reading both DVC and AD, i started reading deception point but then murag na bored na ko , his style is predictable. Though i am thankful with DVC, since it was one way of pointing me to the "real books" like HBHG, messianic legacy and so on

[thisbe.ara]

well, he's a great writer coz he backs it up with a lot of evidences and facts. as in grabe research siguro ani. pero as most writers, dan brown's books can turn out monotonous na baya.
except angels and demons...ayaw lang na hilabti. it's one heck of a book.

[daryl]

His research is imaginary. Those thigns that he said are already part of the whole Church Conspiracies Community. And those things that he presents as facts(I just can't HATE it when he presents things as FACT), well most of them are either false or go against most of the Church conspiracies that make sense.

What I'm saying is....read Umberto Eco. Hehe. Toink.

[comicGeek]

I like Dan Brown's work (Angel's and Demons and The Da Vinci Code). What we should do as readers is to take caution because he blurs the boundary between what is actual fact and fiction. This confuses some readers who might just believe easily on what is written in the first pages of the books where he mention it being fact where in reality it can be debated.

[Carlo Borromeo]

With all the hype this book had, I really expected a lot from Da Vinci Code. But instead of reading a really cool book about religion, conspiracies and murder, I felt that it was a pretensious, badly-researched book with shallow characters in a thin plot.

First of all, it insists that it has a "world-changing" revelation that the church does not want exposed. But in the book itself, it mentions two other books, NON-FICTION books no less, that reveal the exact same thing. This is not the first book to explore the idea of Jesus having a family. Almost a century ago, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST postulated this. It did not change the world.

Second, the author makes really outrageous and often ridiculous statements. For example, there is Brown's insistence that the Catholic church has eradicated the worship of the "Mother Goddess" from the western world. REally? How about The Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church venerates her as almost an equal to Jesus, going so far as to call her Mother of God. Don't believe me? How many Our Father's are there in the Rosary? How many Hail Mary's? Nuff Said.

And for a guy who claims to be a stickler for details, he even gets the TITLE OF THE BOOK very WRROONG. Da Vinci was not the name of the artist. It was the name of the place where he came from. The artist who made the "code" was named Leonardo. No one in the art community or the scientific community today worth a damn calls him "Da Vinci."

I could go on and on, but I'm hungry and I'm going to have lunch already.

If you want a mind-blowing plot connecting all religions, read AMERICAN GODS. It's a billion times smarter.