Why Mr Da Vinci? Why your code so phamous?
Found this article on a News link: The riddle of the book Da Vinci Code's mindboggling popularity.
Publishers and would-be best-selling authors are racking their brains to discover (and reproduce) the recipe for one of the greatest publishing phenomena of all time, which has sold more than 40 million copies in hardcover and has now settled in for what's expected to be a reign of Victorian proportions at No. 1 in paperback.
Is it Brown's canny combination of religious conspiracy theories, secret societies, code-cracking and art-historical mumbo-jumbo? Has it tapped into a wave of anti-Catholicism following a rash of sex-abuse scandals in the church? Does it satisfy an emerging hunger for feminist theologies? Is it the novel's choppy but breathless pace, with nearly every one of its 105 brief chapters punctuated by a cliffhanger? Or is it, by now, chiefly a case of snowballing fame, with many readers buying the book just to see what all the fuss is about?
So being a queen at wasting time, i am going to skulk around (on people's blogs) and unearth the mystery...
I'll start tonight. For now, back to surrogate mommies...
PS. If anyone who has read the book stops here - pls leave a note as to why you loved/liked/hated/were indifferent to THE BOOK...
Thanky oo
Results: 1 hate blog , I (I would infer) Love Blog
1. Da Vinci is a Steaming Pile of Horse Manure: I infer, that the problem the haters have with the Code is that it tries too hard to make fiction look like fact. I confess that I had forgotten that Brown says on his first page that the book is based on true historic facts (ok kill me for missing the most important fact!). I just assumed that it's the usual "inspired" piece - take the "facts" with a truck-load of salt. Ohho, did a couple of you actually take EVERYTHING seriously?? Tch Tch, poor naive souls :)
2. He who traced the footsteps of Langdon: This chappy must be a lover cos he actually remebered all the places Langdon visited in the book. I am sure that's one charm of the book - all touristy destinations you have already/or plan to visit. makes the book more identifiable. (But then why is Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter such a hit? No one's been to Rivendell or Hogwarts!) Ok cancel inference.
Publishers and would-be best-selling authors are racking their brains to discover (and reproduce) the recipe for one of the greatest publishing phenomena of all time, which has sold more than 40 million copies in hardcover and has now settled in for what's expected to be a reign of Victorian proportions at No. 1 in paperback.
Is it Brown's canny combination of religious conspiracy theories, secret societies, code-cracking and art-historical mumbo-jumbo? Has it tapped into a wave of anti-Catholicism following a rash of sex-abuse scandals in the church? Does it satisfy an emerging hunger for feminist theologies? Is it the novel's choppy but breathless pace, with nearly every one of its 105 brief chapters punctuated by a cliffhanger? Or is it, by now, chiefly a case of snowballing fame, with many readers buying the book just to see what all the fuss is about?
So being a queen at wasting time, i am going to skulk around (on people's blogs) and unearth the mystery...
I'll start tonight. For now, back to surrogate mommies...
PS. If anyone who has read the book stops here - pls leave a note as to why you loved/liked/hated/were indifferent to THE BOOK...
Thanky oo
Results: 1 hate blog , I (I would infer) Love Blog
1. Da Vinci is a Steaming Pile of Horse Manure: I infer, that the problem the haters have with the Code is that it tries too hard to make fiction look like fact. I confess that I had forgotten that Brown says on his first page that the book is based on true historic facts (ok kill me for missing the most important fact!). I just assumed that it's the usual "inspired" piece - take the "facts" with a truck-load of salt. Ohho, did a couple of you actually take EVERYTHING seriously?? Tch Tch, poor naive souls :)
2. He who traced the footsteps of Langdon: This chappy must be a lover cos he actually remebered all the places Langdon visited in the book. I am sure that's one charm of the book - all touristy destinations you have already/or plan to visit. makes the book more identifiable. (But then why is Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter such a hit? No one's been to Rivendell or Hogwarts!) Ok cancel inference.
posted by Amrita Pande at 8:36 AM
1 Comments:
babes, do you like the book?
for me its okay, another random reading, leaving little memory behind. The soggy corners of my mind remember as shit falls from the sky into the lap of the tom hanks- in the book that is. WHAT? blasphemy-- arent you catholic.
I must dive into the aromas of the deep underground & confess- I love your writing.
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