Thoughts of LoWriter

DaVinci Crap

I usually wait until the end of the month to report my monthly reads, but this one really couldn't wait.

Beware, Dear Reader, spoilers abound.

The DaVinci Code is one of the worst books I've read this year. Lots of people get up in arms about how controversial this book is. I don't see why it should be BECAUSE IT SUCKS.

This is not to say that the book isn't what it is trying to be: A Crime Novel in a Series. It is to say that it is not what everybody heralds it to be: A Masterpiece. A Work of Genius. An Historical Document. Etc.

I listened to this book on CD. Not only was I 17 tracks ahead of the main characters in solving most of the "riddles," but I didn't even care about the main characters. The only one I liked was the English knight who [spoiler approaching] turned out to be the bad guy. And I would like to point out how it was virtually impossible to know that he was the sole bad guy and was not working with the head cop seeing as how they always talk about the knight (Mr. Teebing or Tiebing or who knows how you spell it; I'm certainly not going to waste more time looking it up) hobbling around when he is with the main characters but not when he is in his French accent "disguise."

Additionally, some of the Bible verses used were mis-quoted, some of the authors mentioned were taken out of context, and, according to a friend, a great deal of the "historical" data was inaccurate. None of this is a problem, except when people start trying to pass the fiction off as fact.

I wouldn't be so annoyed except that A) I wasted 16 hours of my life that I am never going to get back on a book that bored me until the last 7 chapters or so. B) People have cited this book when arguing with me about the existence of God, Jesus, an accurate Bible, etc. And C) The only character worth the read was the bad guy, and I knew he was a bad guy pretty much as soon as he said that people always underestimated him due to his disability.

Personally, I find it laughable that people believe this book and/or get so upset over this book that they ban it/burn it/tell the author anything other than "BOOoo, Hiss" regarding this book. It's pure fiction and poorly written fiction at that. Everybody should just calm down and ignore it because that's what people will be doing several years from now, anyway.

Posted by LoWriter at March 21, 2005 04:55 PM