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The conversation I just had with my mother, and you have to imagine me saying all of this through sheepish laughter:

Me: Oh, it's so bad.
Mom: (disappointed) Really?
Me: It's not even a first book, and ... and the passive voice, and the excessive use of epithets ...
Mom: (lost) Oh ...
Me: I swear, it's not you, it's me. I'm anal and elitist.

And also:

Me: Mom, think of it this way. If I took you to a miniature golf tournament played by middle-schoolers, would you like it?
Mom: Probably not.
Me: Exactly.

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I swear, I have to bundle up all of your DaVinci related posts and send them to my dad. He will love it, lol.

Heh...still trudging your way through the Da Vinci Code I see. *snerk*

Honestly, I just don't get the attraction.

SO funny!!
Its like the Senior Talk radio show my old boss (Dr.Hutter the chiropractor) had on in his office on weekends. He couldn't understand why the old folks loved the show so much- it was stupefying. I said "Ed, you feel the same way about Barney, right?" He looked confused. I said "You are NOT the target demographic. You do not need to be amused."

Back to the topic, tho, I admit to having read the damn thing in 24 hours. The premise was fun and anything that flips the Vatican the bird gets me going. If I read it now, I might have to barf.... (kinda like college cafeteria food tastes great for the first 3 minutes and then, once you're no longer starving, it sucks...)

TMI, I know. But...

I hate DVC so much. I read it during exams, so I was tripped out enough not to notice a lot of the bad writing, and just sort of skimmed over the faulty-logic expositions. I opened it up again a little while ago and whimpered in pain and shut it again.

Mostly I want to go stabbity at people who are like "OMG IT'S ALL TRUE!"

The book lost me a few pages in, when Dan Brown was introducing Robert Langdon and more or less came right out and said 'Harrison Ford should play Langdon in the movie version.' Which makes it even funnier that they wound up with Tom Hanks.

You know what really pokes my tomatoes?

Those people who hate DVC because it's "Destroying Christianity, OMG!" 'Cause you know what? Jesus's babies, if they even EXIST, hurt exactly nothing and no one, but bad writing hurts EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE!

Hate DVC for the right reasons, folks.

I made it to page 28. Since then, it's traveled to work and back with me for several weeks, it's migrated from the bedside table to the back of the toilet, and it's moved with me - all with a December bus pass wedged in at the beginning of chapter five. I keep meaning to pick the thing up and plow through it, but I don't think it's going to happen anymore. How disappointing. I broke down and picked it up in the first place because of my art history geekiness, but I think I could go back and read my old first year term papers and get more enjoyment out of them.

Got this link via

marag - the Dan Brown Code. It's no doubt exactly what you're talking about, and might be easy to print out for your mom.

Ha! you know what's awesome about this post? I totally read it without knowing what book you were talking about but the first to pop to mind was the Da Vinci Code. I feel vindicated.

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