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[apocalypsos]

So I went to my parents' house for dinner tonight, and my dad gave me one of his old prepaid phones, and my mom gave me her paperback copy of The DaVinci Code because I said I hadn't read it.

I just read the first page.

Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.

I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.

I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.

They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.

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[sadiekate.livejournal.com]

Oy vey. I work in a bookstore, and EVERY DAY, people come in and tell me how much they looooooooooved The Da Vinci Code, like they are in a special club of forty billion people. These are often the same people that bitch about the price of a cappucino, and bring forty books into the cafe and leave them there. In other words, they are all people who need to be punched in the face.

You know, someone gave me that book for my birthday a few years ago. I think maybe they just don't like me.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I feel a little sorry for my mom, because the next time I talk to her she's going to say, "Oh, wasn't it great?", to which I'm going to have to admit that I'd rather have brain surgery under the sedation of three weak cups of coffee than keep reading this.

[sadiekate.livejournal.com]

Rock on, dude. I wish I had stopped, but I just kept READING like it was going to get BETTER and ... it really, really didn't.

To make matters worse, it was a Jeopardy category the other night. I can never look at Alex Trebek the same way. It's like they comprpmised, and now there is just cross-promotional whore juice all over the studio.

I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THAT MEANS.

[fyrdrakken]

Many moons ago, I read an LJ discussion of TDVC in which someone said that it's basically a book that makes people who don't read that many books feel smart. You provide supporting evidence for this premise and fuel my conviction that it's just as well I refrained from reading the damned thing myself.