blazinhead89 said: colonelstubbs said: The movie of the Da Vinci Code can suck my balls. Tom Hanks and his stupid mullet   Fixed for your sig

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I am not a good judge of literary merit by any means, and I admit that I don't have very refined tastes at all when it comes to literature. With that said I do very much like Dan Brown's novels. To be honest they are all very formulaic and similar to each other, to the point where when you're reading the last one of his 4 books you pretty much know who will end up being a bad guy and who will not. From his style I can certainly see how those of higher tastes would scoff at his writing. But I'm only into reading to be entertained, and his novels get the job done for me.

You could probably guess that my other favorite books are the Harry Potter series, another popular, yet discredited series. But I also like His Dark Materials which seems to get a decent amount of praise.

I've read three.

The Da Vinci Code - Absolute crap. I found the characterization and theories regarding the meanings of Da Vinci's art work to be very interesting, but I could have read about that anywhere else. The plot was shoddy and it just felt like it was relying strictly on the shock factor.

Digital Fortress - Interesting. I tought it was ok, but it falls into the same pit that many hacker/techno-espianoge flick falls into: believability. Like the last part when they are trying to crack the password is so dumb. For a good 10 pages I was literally yelling the anwer at the supposedly highly educated characters that specialize in cryptology.

Angels and Demons - Loved it. Granted Dan Brown's writing isn't that great, but the plot had everything. Partical colliders, mysterious historical artifacts and treasures, conspiracy, murderd cleregy men, and and M. Night-esgue twist (which I actually found fairly easy to figure out early in the book), and I am a sucker for an Illuminati premise. Also in this book he had better fleshed out theories and historical manipulation which I found interesting.

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The Da Vinci Code doesn't hold a candle to a plethora of other mainstream modern authors... Michael Crighton, Stephen King, Chuck Palniuhuk, Clive Barker, etc. etc. etc. are all vastly superior authors.

I finally read Silence of the Lambs and that was a waaay better book. But, Hannibal sucked so I'll leave Thomas Harris off the list.

I went and saw Amelie in the theatres back in 9th grade.  Let's just say I don't remember a single part of that movie due to my girlfriend at the time.  My mom was clever enough to know the real reason why we went to see a foreign movie.  I will agree that she is banging though.   So hot.

OT: I only saw the movie, didn't read the books.  I was told they were good but I don't want to read them.

I demand that you immediately go watch Dirty Pretty Things. That movie is fuggin' brilliant.

Well, you left out Frederick Forsyth there.

Conflictingly enough, Hannibal was my favorite of the series(except for the feeble attempt at justification of Lecter's "eccentricity", which Harris doesn't really follow through)

The end of Hannibal pissed me off so fucking badly... Clarice and Hannibal run off together? WTF? That completely defeats the nature of the characters... Hannibal is an uncaring sociopath and Clarice is a by-the-numbers overachiever. They were destined to be mortal enemies and dammit, Harris fucked that up by putting them together in the end.

The movie had a far better ending than the book. Even Ridley Scott saw the bullshit attempt at closure there and changed it around so it made sense to everyone not named Thomas Harris.

I loved Da Vinci Code. It was off beat and silly. I liked the short chapters as well the religious message is fiction tho I know and I am agonostic.