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Club Read 2009 : Wandering_star's 2009 reading		222	wandering_star, Hoje 7:56am
Folio Society devotees : Faux pas.....		36	SpoonFed, Hoje 6:25am
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What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		233	ThrillerFan, Ontem 12:03pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : lindapanzo's 75 books x 2		240	alcottacre, Ontem 10:41am
50 Book Challenge : Stretch's attempt at 50		54	stretch, Segunda-feira 9:19pm
999 Challenge : Zoe's 999		179	_Zoe_, Segunda-feira 4:10pm
Awful Lit. : I can't believe I wasted my time on this...		466	read-a-lots2, Segunda-feira 12:48pm
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Pro and Con (Religion) : Is Ayn Rand the Anti-Christ?		31	rolandperkins, Domingo 9:16pm
50 Book Challenge : Back for more in 2009...		80	kmbooklover, Domingo 2:13pm
Awful Lit. : What is the most offensive book you got through?		136	doggroomer, Sábado 11:32pm
999 Challenge : Deesiring's		8	Deesirings, Sábado 8:52pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Megi53's 2009 challenge		14	drneutron, Sábado 7:30pm
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1010 Category Challenge : CMBohn's 101010 list		46	cmbohn, Dezembro 15
50 Book Challenge : Trying Again in 2009		28	wkelly42, Dezembro 15
Lectures des francophones : Grimm - lectures 2009		46	grimm, Dezembro 15
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40-Something Library Thingers : Books you were "supposed" to like but didn't , and alternate recommendations		13	ca_dmv, Dezembro 13
50 Book Challenge : Kmarcil77's 2009 Challenge		69	kmarcil77, Dezembro 13
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The Kitchen, thread #6		301	richardderus, Dezembro 12
50 Book Challenge : annesion's 50 book challenge for the second 1/2 of 2009		49	annesion, Dezembro 9
What Are You Reading Now? : When do you call it quits?		53	DevourerOfBooks, Dezembro 6
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Literary Snobs : Dan Brown's latest attempt at grammar and narrative		145	geneg, Dezembro 3
50 Book Challenge : Smiler69's 50+2 books in 2009		152	Rebeki, Novembro 30
Awful Lit. : Awful Classics?		558	chapterofaccidents, Novembro 27
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1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		123	maryjanemanolos, Novembro 23
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The Prizes : 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award		16	avatiakh, Novembro 17
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? October 2009		155	rebeccanyc, Novembro 16
Science Fiction Fans : Best YA Science Fiction		120	rojse, Novembro 15
50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's 50 book challenge 2009		223	elliepotten, Novembro 13
50 Book Challenge : ashley21's 2009 book challenge		15	ashley21, Novembro 12
999 Challenge : Bucketyell's Part III		68	bucketyell, Novembro 10
What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books redux (Life is short. Don't read crap.)		232	sanja, Novembro 4
Pro and Con (Religion) : Does Christianity stand or fall on the truth of NT account?		81	timspalding, Novembro 3
Literary Snobs : Venting...the "I Hate James Patterson" et all thread		62	CliffBurns, Novembro 1
Banned Books : You are dictator. What will you ban?		45	bardsfingertips, Outubro 30
Club Read 2009 : amandameale 2009		156	cabegley, Outubro 29
50 Book Challenge : nannybebette---the 4th inning		301	nannybebette, Outubro 28
Hogwarts Express : I haven't read that... (IV)		220	mamzel, Outubro 26
Book talk : Books made into movies		107	Ape, Outubro 25
Bestsellers over the Years : 1954		16	aviddiva, Outubro 24
2009 Genre Challenge : October Genre -- Thriller		3	billiejean, Outubro 23
Travel and Exploration literature : Non Travel books that have made you want to visit a place		74	Booksloth, Outubro 23
50 Book Challenge : The second try at the 50 book Challenge!		1	moonchildoxo, Outubro 23
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : applebook1's reading list 2009		91	applebook1, Outubro 22
BookMooching : Approaching 2,000,000 mooches...		7	Trismegistus, Outubro 22
Club Read 2009 : Fullmoonblue		82	Fullmoonblue, Outubro 21
50 Book Challenge : TheresaHPIR's		105	lisaling, Outubro 13
The Europe Endless Challenge : Dragonfly310's Flight through Europe		9	Dragonfly310, Outubro 12
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The worst books I've read in the first quarter of 2009.		133	alcottacre, Outubro 8
Folio Society devotees : Popular Titles as Folio Editions?		25	boldface, Outubro 6
FantasyFans : Twilight: hate it		169	TransformersFanGirl, Outubro 5
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 26, 2009?		216	jnwelch, Outubro 3
Site talk : do ratings actually affect other features?		96	stephmo, Outubro 2
BookMooching : Pimp your inventory - September 2009		101	wisewoman, Outubro 1
Book talk : WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW? Where? Why? How? What? Is it? What?		160	callmejacx, Setembro 30
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in September?		104	Espeon200, Setembro 30
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Fantasy/SF		354	TadAD, Setembro 29
Hogwarts Express : books you won't read		62	biblioholic29, Setembro 24
Australian LibraryThingers : Dymocks Top 101 Books		31	shawjonathan, Setembro 21
50 Book Challenge : Kirconnell 2009		181	readinggeek, Setembro 21
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 12, 2009?		239	teelgee, Setembro 20
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : teelgee tackles 125 in 2009		275	teelgee, Setembro 18
Awful Lit. : I can't believe I wasted my time on this con't...		223	Depressed_Bird, Setembro 15
Book talk : Do you always finish every book you start? How do you decide it is not worth reading?		84	VetaTorres, Setembro 13
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : If You Could....		29	pinkozcat, Setembro 11
999 Challenge : Ivy's 999		176	ShaggyBag, Setembro 10
Book talk : Most abandoned book		142	petersonvl, Setembro 9
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Sgt Big G's 75 for '09		204	sgtbigg, Setembro 7
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Nickelini's 2009 Reading List		338	Nickelini, Setembro 1
Literary Snobs : a challenge		67	kswolff, Agosto 29
O que você está lendo? : Anjos e Demônios		4	uirandize, Agosto 27
Happy Heathens : The Dawkins delusion		245	darrow, Agosto 27
tHe bESt BoOKs fOR KIDZ : dan brown - da vinci code, angels and demons		1	theworldsbestbooks, Agosto 25
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Awful Lit. : 'Why are classics classic?		172	titusalone, Agosto 14
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Leonardo da Vinci by Sherwin Nuland

... ladies; the "little thing" painting in the park). 17. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Didn't like it as much as I liked The Da Vinci Code. The camerlengo's character was original and fascinating, while Vittoria didn't ring true. May: 18. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Pretty good. L ...

Someone suggesting that FS publish an edition of The Da Vinci Code.

... we should test it out with just one book to see if it would work, and if it doesn't we can put this to bed. Let's use The Da Vince Code and see if all those who have written reviews about Dan Brown and his work will not have their reviews praised or trashed for the wrong reasons but only ...

Thanks for visiting, ladies! I checked the Librarything predictor after I finished The Da Vinci Code and it said that I probably would not like it, but it's been wrong before! I also get tired of people criticising popular authors for not being Booker-winners - it's exactly the same with the Twi ...

I finished The Davinci Code and really enjoyed it. Went out and bought the movie. Only seen half of it so far since I started it late last night and left it at my friend house, but they seem to be following the book pretty well. I am now thinking of starting Angels and Demons...we'll see ...

... at popular writers like Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks and Dan Brown (and everyone who's ever read them); The Da Vinci Code may not be a top-notch prize winner, but I loved it and I couldn't put it down! A book can win all the prizes and critical recognition in the world, but ...

73. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I loved this. So many obscure details, clever codes and general running around - it's a real page-turner (and now I know why all museums and art galleries have that same smell that you only get in museums and galleries...). I think we have all the others at ...

I am currently reading The Davinci Code which despite all the bad reviews is actually very intriguing for me, I am really liking it so far and will probably give it a 4 out of 5 as I will probably only reread it once maybe twice.

... I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would, but it's finished now, so I'm adding it to my list. I've just started The Da Vinci Code, which I never read when it was super-popular, and it's lots of fun. There was a stack of them in the book exchange at work, so I decided to read it ...

... Mosley Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Post Grad by Emily Cassel Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

... 2-3 reviews, but it would be very helpful for some of the more popular books that have 100 or more reviews. Would I enjoy The da Vinci Code (744 reviews as of this posting)? I want to know how someone who hated Angels and Demons as much as I did thought about it, not someone who owns signed ...

I suspect D. Brown of wanting to become a new Umberto Eco for chavs. The Da Vinci Code and his Langdon series seem like a poor attempt at something like Foucault's Pendulum.

... fast-paced, with a main character who is under 25. But I do have my standards. I refuse to teach The Lovely Bones or The DaVinci Code (as some of my colleagues do) in a college level "literature" course. I'm working on an article about this situation.

... titles that I've never heard of, I've had The Lost Symbol which is quite popular as it's a recent release and a sequel to The Da Vinci Code. If anyone has any recommendations for me to read books that aren't very popular yet equally good, don't hesitate to post. Ok, I'm a little weary about ...

... lists from other years and I find the choices odd. The range goes from Pulitzer and Booker winners to best sellers like The DaVinci Code and John Grisham novels. Anyway, for a number of reasons, I read very few new books. I haven't read any of these, and I only have two in Planet TBR: Th ...

... wants it. He asked for an audio copy - it has a 12-month wait. I can't believe how popular that book is! I thought Da Vinci Code was pretty entertaining - and then EVERYONE read it and it was so ridiculous the fuss that was made over it. I didn't read Angels and Demons, but will ...

... I think I'll see how many copies of The Lost Symbol our system has ordered. It's not one I would request, though. Da Vinci Code was enough Dan brown for me.

... keeps popping up--obviously there's a sizable constituency of people who just want to believe it--most recently in the Da Vinci Code.

... of the book if you wish to do so. Ok then lets get started with: Book 1# The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons in about three/four days each so I reckon I could zip through this pretty quickly.

... (lol) So I guess that justifies why I can't seem to find it online and why library thing doesn't eve know it exists! 2. The Da Vinci Code 10-22-2009 I really liked this book. It was fun to read and not complicated at all. I know a lot of people knock this book and say that it was ...

... categories (call it the Unmoochable Constant): formerly popular mass market paperbacks no longer in high demand (think The Da Vinci Code); niche inventories (magazines, non-English language books, obscure subjects); or books that for whatever reason (improper entry, incorrect display of non- ...

I haven't read The Da Vinci Code, But I have read Days of Fear, Knights of Suffering.

Why do people think that they can (or need to) write the next Da Vinci Code? If you write medical thrillers and have made your fortune writing medical thrillers, please don't get sidetracked and try to jump on a new bandwagon. Intervention by Cook was awful.

I wanted to go ahead and post my list as I am leaving town tomorrow and won't be on LT. Here it is: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Patriot Games by Tom Clancy Survivor by Chuck Palaniuk Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen Map of Bones by James Rollins Mary, Mary by James Patterson ...

... (or groans). I must admit that I do enjoy the fact that Vatican City did get their underwear ruffled by such books as The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I just wished they showed that much concern about the children that were getting abused by their priests and bishops. . .

... back to you... slowly maybe.. but it sounds like she is on her way. huge hugs I like The Dan Brown books you mentioned.. Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.. and look forward to eventually getting to The Lost Symbol.

... not a quitter. She is not giving up. As long as she holds on, we hold on. Yes, I think everyone read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and some loved it, some liked it, some hated it and some were just ambivalant about it. But that's okay. We all have our druthers and sometimes are just ...

... must just be heartbreaking for you all, but she does seem to be holding on. A thumbs up! Brilliant. I read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code - didn't everyone? It was a page turner, but there was some awfully clunky writing that drove me nuts (enough with the exposition! on with the plot!) and I'm ...

Perhaps I shall have to give it a try. I am one of the few who "confusedly" enjoyed The Da Vinci Code and actually really Angels and Demons. Maybe this winter when I don't have so much going on and so many books lined up I will read The Lost Symbol. My family are not Masons, but as my ...

Book Started: Da Vinci Code Category: Audiobooks (Extra Credit) Is there a dividing line between morbid curiosity and outright masochism? I do believe I've crossed it right now. I actually expect this to be a somewhat less painful albeit blander experience than Angels and Demons since I' ...

In Edgerton, Illinois following da trail of Mr. X and in da Louvre trying to crack da Vinci Code.

Space- Nice job on the review! I must be one of the only ones who is completely indifferent to this release. I enjoyed Da Vinci Code but have had no desire to read any of his other work. Now you can move on to some quality!

... the next one: 33. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown Oh Dan Brown. What happened? You had such momentum from The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, neither of which were fantastically written but that had interesting stories and fast-paced plots. You had a good premise, ...

... by John Irving Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown The Island by Victoria Hislop Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Tribulation Force by Tim LaHaye and ...

How about The Da Vinci Code? Lots of good illustrations to be had there.

... school of writing. Frankly for me it got boring. After Angels and Demons I opted to listen to an abridged version of Da Vinci Code. I wasn't even moved by the prospect of the new book, so didn't even add it to by TBR list. What I did like about his books was the art history angel. H ...

91. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown I didn't love this like I loved Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code but I still really liked this. There was a great twist in there I never saw coming, which just made the book even better.

... bit like top bestsellers all being the best books. Highly-rated books and bestsellers aren't the same thing at all. The Da Vinci Code has an average rating of 3.53, which is very low by LT standards.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown **** I wanted to see how Dan Brown would follow up on the success of The Da Vinci Code and now I know - with more of the same. LOL. Instead of being set in Europe, this novel is set in Washington D.C. and the Freemasons are the secret organization whose symbols ...

... ever but fast-paced and interesting. There's a lot of talk about little-known D.C. so I enjoyed this one a bit more than The Da Vinci Code.

... ever but fast-paced and interesting. There's a lot of talk about little-known D.C. so I enjoyed this one a bit more than The Da Vinci Code.

... - Khaled Hosseini 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (own but have not read) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (a couple of times) 46 Anne of Green ...

... though, we don't have to! So far it's gripping and enjoyable. The writing isn't brilliant, although it's better than The Da Vinci Code, but I'm really enjoying the plot. It helps my enjoyment of reading DB that I'm 3 for 3 in having been to at least a couple of places mentioned in each of ...

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown *** I was excited to read this as I loved both Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. After reading it, I have to admit that I am a little disappointed. I felt the plot was the same as Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, with but a few changes. Helped ...

spacepotatoes - It was pretty much what I expected it to be. I enjoyed the novel, but not as much as Angels & Demons or The DaVinci Code. Some of the novel seemed to be geared for a future movie release. I particularly was excited to read the parts of the novel dealing with the Capitol Building. ...

Taking up the Chesterton assertion, people seem to still demand the Artifact Conspiracy Genre: Da Vinci Code and its million brood of knock-offs, imitators, and Mad-Libs variations. I'm sure Hammett and Chandler had compete with hordes of lesser mystery writers, but those two -- I'd even admit ...

... begun it. I am looking forward to the plausible mysteries that it is supposed to have. I enjoyed Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. 6. So far, is it better or worse than you thought it would be? The prologue was nicely enticing. Who is this guy? Why is he taking these vows ...

Geneg: Teaching The DaVinci Code, or at least passages of it, would be a good idea if 1) I were teaching the creative writing class (which I'm not--the guy who has that sewn up doesn't write and has never published) and if 2) I weren't teaching in a Catholic high school. . . .

Started The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown last night. If you loved The DaVinci Code, you'll like this, because it's essentially the same book. If you're expecting something better, or something different than The DaVinci Code, you'll be disappointed. I personally was not expecting different or ...

... understand the lure of breakneck pacing, but if that's all ya got, stay home. Geoff, did you ever think about teaching The DaVinci Code? If you thought it was terrible, and your students thought it was wonderful, it seems to me there is a teaching opportunity not to be missed. After all ...

That Cracked review was hilarious; thanks for that. I actually read The DaVinci Code cover to cover; my (high-school) students kept pressing it on me when it came out, and I finally decided to see if it was as bad as I'd assumed it was. It might be the worst book I've ever read, and I mean ...

... she advocated having the cross replaced, as a symbol, by the dollar sign ($). Iʻm not a "symbologist" like the hero of The DaVinci Code, but Iʻve heard that $, used for a Gothic, later Spanish coin, the "thaler" was an old Indo-European anti-Semitic ("Aryan, as the Nazis called it) ...

... my years spent in a university library has protected me. #22: Does Dan Brown belong to the same group? I recently bought The Da Vinci Code at a booksale. My husband read it and his cool "okay" has made me suspicious.

My husband immediately said The DaVinci Code and I would like to read these: (by author) Mary Stewart, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Tony Hillerman, Georgette Heyer, Carol O'Connell. I could go on and on, but I can't think of just one book or just one genre either. I can never think of ...

My husband read The Da Vinci Code and loved it. I tried to read it but I just couldn't get into it. Just not my thing. A Purpose Driven Life didn't really inspire me but several women in the church group I was in loved it. I'm a big King fan. I prefer his older monster books to the ones ...

... the last book in the Twilight series. She really wants me to read a book by Patricia Cornwell. It's funny I thought of The DaVinci Code when I saw this thread and here it is. I've actually read it, but I won't read any other books by Dan Brown connected to it for the same reason as foggi ...

... into HP (and when I did pick it up it was because it was literally the only thing to read at the time). I actually read The DaVinci Code as an ARC though. I can definitely be stubborn in the way MEM is talking about too, in particular if one of my sister's recommends something, (you all ...

The Da Vinci Code. I think it's a negative reaction to all of the hype -- it was just too popular. (Good thing I didn't feel that way about HP, I guess -- though I started reading it before I knew it was popular.)

I read The DaVinci Code just to see what was making my overly Christian sisters so hoppin' mad...only reason I got past the not-good writing was a need to know and needle. The Lost Symbol will be a library borrow when its popularity dwindles, because I just cannot endure another round of bad ...

... I find myself wondering what she's going to do after five more books? A-1 is for Steak? I see a sequel to The Da Vinci Code is due out, The Lost Symbol. This makes me put my credit card in a safe, chain the safe up and throw the safe into the ocean. ;-D

I currently only have the Da Vinci Code up for trade. It's the hardcover edition, and has slight shelf wear and slightly dirty. I'm currently still reading it, but it will be available to ship by 9/6/09. Just a side note for anyone who's interested, I have a catagory on my LT for books that ...

The Da Vinci Code The Secret Atlas Shrugged Aw, if I was a dictator I probably wouldn't ban a thing...

I haven't read Chasing Vermeerbut I have read The DaVinci Code.

... (Especially before the movie!) Has a good balance of gory/violence and historical fact. Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

... que seria outra coisa. Vou insistir mais uma vez, talvéz me ajude a entender o desenvolvimento do personagem principal do Código da Vinci.

... audiobooks) planned above and beyond what's in the category. One is Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar and the other is Da Vinci Code. Yes, I am a masochist. Actually, you have to love the plot synopsis on the back: The menacing secret Catholic organization known as Opus Dei has ...

The Da Vinci Code I read it at my teen's recommendation; I don't recommend it. What a bore.

... That for Kids, Secret Knowledge of Water, Genome: Autobiography of a Species, Advance of the English Novel - own, The Code Book, The Natural History of Unicorns, Vegan Soul Kitchen, An Imaginary Tale

... across as very ignorant and naïve. There is no real action in the book, and certainly no suspense, so comparing it to The Da Vinci Code, as the blurb on the jacket does, is highly misleading. Here’s an example of some of the dialogue: ““Let’s open it up,” Caleb said. “Do we ...

... across as very ignorant and naïve. There is no real action in the book, and certainly no suspense, so comparing it to The Da Vinci Code, as the blurb on the jacket does, is highly misleading. Here’s an example of some of the dialogue: ““Let’s open it up,” Caleb said. “Do we ...

... (however you define that!) would be interesting to see, but calling Sophie's Choice or Memoirs of a Geisha or, indeed, The Da Vinci Code New England books seems pretty silly. And of course, as with all Top {whatever} lists, the selection of particular books can be argued ad infinitum -- ...

... trials, healers, "cunning" women - with a bit of mystery thrown in. But it ended up being a cross between Harry Potter, The DaVinci Code and Garden Spells (a book I detested). Howe spent way too much time in the 1991 story of Connie and Sam -- with a most predictable budding romance from ...

... Starbird Category: World View Published between Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln's Holy Blood, Holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, this book is a moderately interesting link in the popular fascination with alternative views of the Gospels. Although she subscribes to the theory that M ...

170. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Before I read this, I read somewhere that it is considered the thinking man's Da Vinci Code. I don't know if that's true because I've never read the Da Vinci Code, but it seems like it could be the case. I know this is supposed to be a post modernist ...

... it, but I might get back to it one day. The Art Thief. This book is just incredibly bad. I know books in the style of The Da Vinci Code have a lesser standard than most books. Stories will be extremely far fetched or plain implausible (Steve Berry, I'm looking at you!), but that doesn't ...

... negative recommendations are just as useful as favorable ones. I do after all have to try to control my TBR pile, so the Da Vinci Code will definitely remain off. I tried a couple of times, but I really think I can skip One Hundred Years of Solitude. (...creeps away and braces for ...

... I can say is, read in small portions and skip any rambling parts. You may come to appreciate it a little more. I hurled Da Vinci Code and House of Leaves across the room. Before atempting House of Leaves I never thought I'd so vehemently dislike any book. Guess I was wrong.

I've done that quite often I think. The books I can remember at the moment are: The Davinci code A book from Somerset Maugham about an orphan, I can't remember the title If Only It Were True (left this one in a subway car in disgust) Florence

... But I really didn't care. I like a good meaty art story that teaches me something (which I think was part of the appeal of The Da Vinci Code--readers felt like they were learning some cool stuff while whisking along on a roller coaster--never mind that Brown's art history details were invented ...

... _.jpg> 53. The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry - finished 7/13/09 I get the impression this is the sort of book that Da Vinci Code would have been if it were written by someone who respected his readers. The novel is about Cotton Malone, an ex-intelligence agent, who gets involved in a ...

For my holiday reads I took Lifeless, by Mark Billingham, and The Da Vinci Code LOL. I also bought Twilight, from Tea & Tattered Pages. http://www.teaandtatteredpages.com/ I managed to finish Lifeless when I came back on the 13th. I thought about going back to Fingersmith, but my ...

... need to be. Obviously, rereading isn't necessary with all books - I can't imagine what could be gained by a rereading of The Da Vinci Code but I'd defy anyone to get the best out of Middlemarch on a single reading, unless the only purpose the reader has for reading is a very superficial one ...

... Legacy. I don't normally read thrillers, so this has been a present surprise so far. It has some similar themes to Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons, but is better written. Anyway, it's a lot of fun. I've still got Rant on audiobook. I have to give Palahniuk props for the ...

... up and down and throw the book thriller. Much has been said about Angels and Demons and of course the old tired saw, The Da Vinci Code, but this book was perfect in every way and I would not have changed anything. I got THAT book from Sam's Club. Two good reads from two box stores and I' ...

I also remember reading Angels and Demons after The Da Vinci Code. What surprised me was how very similar those two books are. The format is practically the same. It's as if Brown didn't quite have the success he wanted with A&D and simply re-wrote the book in an attempt to hit it big next time ...

... I found on Wikipedia. Maybe I'm just not a SciFi person. "Angels & Demons" - I really liked it, even better than "The DaVinci Code". It wasn't quite as readable at first for me, but it really pulled me along. A great, quick, don't-have-to-constantly-be-thinking book to help kick my ...

... out the reading between The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind. I guess it's like reading Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. I read The Da Vinci Code first and then followed it immediately with Angels and Demons and the latter really suffered for me. I would have enjoyed it ...

... et Jacques Ravenne J'étais un peu refroidi vis à vis des thrillers ésotériques après la mode lancée par le Da Vinci Code. J'ai hésité à ouvrir celui-là mais je ne l'ai pas regretté. Le commissaire Marcas est franc-maçon aussi se sent-il concerné quand 2 meurtres sont ...

As several people before me, I hated the Da Vinci Code. I actually felt insulted while reading it, both as a reader and as a French person. Sophie's World - I don't understand what would compel someone to write a book so huge about something that can so easily be learned through infinitely ...

... "I am a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told that she's here; could I see her please?" "No, I'm afraid she's memorizing The DaVinci Code." "I'll be back."

... three-part plot kept any one story from really standing out and drawing me along. Someone after a more verbose version of The DaVinci Code might enjoy it, or somebody who's lived in Jerusalem or Rome and recognizes the locations, but I wasn't and I haven't so I didn't. Onto Minaret by L ...

25) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Well, my hopes were high after The Da Vinci Code. I read that one in a day and couldn't put it down. Sadly, Angels and Demons didn't QUITE live up to expectations in terms of quick reading or 'not-being-able-to-put-it-down-ness' (there's probably an ...

... ded 1. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield (Read for bookclub - recommended by book club members) 2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Recommended by book club members. We'll be reading the new Dan Brown for our January pick.) 3. The Moment Between by Nicole Bart ...

... Willis This right here is a perfect example of why I like LT. The real world ends up loving books like Twilight and The Da Vinci Code, both of which fell quite flat with me (I know, I dissed SMeyer, please forgive me). It takes a little more than purple prose and a tired rehashing of ...

... English) This right here is a perfect example of why I like LT. The real world ends up loving books like Twilight and The Da Vinci Code, both of which fell quite flat with me (I know, I dissed SMeyer, please forgive me). It takes a little more than purple prose and a tired rehashing of ...

... His taste includes things like The Alchemist, The Name of the Rose, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, John Adams, The Da Vinci Code and writing by Janet Evanovich. Some of the things I've considered recommending so far include: Motherless Brooklyn, The Coffee Trader, Kitche ...

... Code". The latter is in my library, and the former should be. Also Angels and Demons, which I liked better than the Da Vinci Code and whose movie was also better.

... Monkey House 72. Revere Beach Boulevard 73. A Walk In The Woods 74. The Enormous Room 75. Strong Motion 76. The Da Vinci Code 77. One L 78. The Emperor's Children 79. Two Years Before The Mast 80. Blanche Cleans Up 81. The Secret History 82. Girl, Interrupted 83 ...

... toward trashier novels. I may as well get it all out of the way now because I'd hate to die with the literary equivalent of The Da Vinci Code on my nightstand!

Any list which puts The Da Vinci Code in fourth place ahead of Gone With The Wind is suspect in my opinion. But then I thought that The Da Vinci Code was a dreadful potboiler only written for its movie potential.

#106: I have never read Celestine Prophecy, but Da Vinci Code I did read. I never did understand what all the hoopla was about - the book was an OK read for me, but certainly not worthy of all that controversy. #107: Thanks, RebeccaAnn. Glad you dropped by!

... on your thread. You are amazing in your ability to generate discussion. Message #106. I agree with you on both the Da Vinci Code and Celestine Prophecy.

... I have had two other books that people begged me to read in order to discuss with them--the 2nd worse book I ever read, Da Vinci Code and the absolute worse book I ever read, Celestine Prophecy. Pope Joan is another one--but I avoided actually having to read it. I managed to find a ...

... Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margare ...

... it... just can't. I couldn't finish To Say Nothing of the Dog which I had really wanted to like. I really liked The Da Vinci Code And Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell and The Historian are on my beach vacation reading list for the summer, but it looks like a lot of people didn't ...

A few final thoughts on Angels and Demons: I skipped reading The Da Vinci Code--I opted for seeing the movie instead. It wasn't an unpleasant experience. If anything, I'd call it pretty entertaining overall. The parts I found most disappointing were the attempts at presenting the secret ...

135-138, glad I could help. 40. The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski. I liked the idea of The Da Vinci Code, unfortunately it was poorly executed, so I've been trying to find another author who writes the same type of book except better. For about 2/3 of The Lost Throne I thought I had done ...

135-138, glad I could help. 40. The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski. I liked the idea of The Da Vinci Code, unfortunately it was poorly executed, so i've been trying to find another author who writes the same type of book except better. For about 2/3 of The Lost Throne I thought I had done ...

#7: The Da Vinci Code. #2: Stephen King. The first is unlikely to change. The second is likely to.

... as much as I had Carmenere, I hope your reading goes well^^ 32. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown rate: **** 33. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown rate: **** this is my first time reading these..and I quite enjoyed it.. :)

well i only got as far as #7The Da Vinci Code - never *ever* gonna change that i'll skip around it thanks #2 Stephen King - just isn't my kind of author, i don't do horror. i'm not going to try and count how many of the top 100 i've read because i doubt i'll get very many.

Like The_Kat_Cache: 1. #7 The Da Vinci Code 2. #3 Terry Pratchett

#7 The Da Vinci Code #2 Stephen King . . . and no desire to change that, either.

#7 The Da Vinci Code #2 Stephen King *shifty eyes*

I loved Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code but loved Angels and Demons more. Can't wait to see the movie. I am still plugging away at The Girls for book club. Next up The Angel's Gamewhich another LT member very kindly sent to me. I loved Shadow of the Wind so cannot wait for this one. ...

... that book shifted anything in you or just provided a service: entertainment, relaxation, etc. That being said I thought The DaVinci Code was like a so so, expensive espresso you have on foreign countries: it makes you miss the good coffee and wish you hadn't bothered.

... I cannot believe that anyone actually reads every sentence of this book and enjoys it. It simply defies imagination. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. As the kids say, "Beyotch, please." The Firm by John Grisham So the evil plot involves putting me to sleep, right? Maisie Dobbs ...

Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code are BOOKS ! sheesh! They don't have to be believable, they are fiction. I enjoyed them both...although I liked Angels and Demons more. They were fun and exciting reads, and the endings were fun, too. So what if they were over the top.. They are ...

143 & 144 For many years I thought I was the only person who thought the endings to both Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code were just over the top. For me they were just plain silly. Especially Angels & Demons. I can't imagine what the author was thinking when he kept one upping himself. ...

... minor characters from Shogun, Tai Pan, or Noble House, whereas if I were to sum up the characters from (easy target) The Da Vinci Code, I'd come up with good guy, good girl, bad guy. Oh, yeah, and in the beginning, dead guy. Personalities? Nope.

... down. ----------------- Oh, yeah, I'm all over that. Both the book and the author give up all credibility. I hated The Da Vinci Code for exactly this reason.

8,9 - I totally agree about bad writing. My friends often mention the Da Vinci Code just to watch my face turn purple with rage. I read it maybe 5 years ago for book club and it still makes my blood boil!

I had friends who wanted to discuss The Da Vinci Code from a theological POV. I was completely able to take part in the discussion after reading only the first and last page of every chapter - the rest in the middle was mere padding. I still hated it mind you. And for junk, I usually read ...

>26 I read The Da Vinci Code and kept turning the pages, yes, but the thing that annoyed me most about it was the flatness of the characters. I couldn't have said anything about the personalities of the characters after reading the book--because the author didn't say anything about them. They ...

> 8 "By the way, who IS Dan Brown?" A forgettable name. Maybe you heard of the Da Vinci Code aka The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ? Well, I never took this challenge anyway :-)

See, all this is why I didn't bother to finish The Da Vinci Code.

I actually braved The DaVinci Code the 3rd time a student gave it to me; talk about toneless. The dialogue is the kind of thing 8th graders write. Throwaway prose at its worst. Steinbeck is pretty awkward, though I like him in spite of that. Bradbury is a terrible sentence writer--the ...

... I don't really remember! 14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as an adult? Some chick lit from the library, The Da Vinci Code, The Notebook, the Twilight series - and you know what, I loved every last page! 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? I tried ...

... I don't really remember! 14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as an adult? Some chick lit from the library, The Da Vinci Code, The Notebook, the Twilight series - and you know what, I loved every last page! 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? I tried ...

... has just been released to wide praise. Described as a Tony Hillerman meets Clive Cussler with a touch of DaVinci Code, this quick-paced, action-packed mystery thriller will leave the reader on the edge of their seat wondering whether it's real or just fiction. Elements of the ...

... to reread or not. Probably not, since I have so many other worthy books on my list! Still reading Bag of Bones and The Da Vinci Code...I haven't made much progress over the last few days - recent events have kept me from my reading, but I hope to make up for lost time over the next few ...

... read the book real fast since it is a Dan Brown book and they can be read real fast. I enjoyed it much like I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. I'm not a huge fan of Dan Brown's writing but his stories keep me entertained. What he lacks in character development and some lame contrived dialogue he ...

... even though it's not what I've usually come to expect from King. In addition, I decided it was finally time to pick up The Da Vinci Code to see what all the hype was about.

... to see it in the theaters, but I'd have to guess that Tom Hanks hair in this one would automatically make it better than Da Vinci Code! #110: I hate to tell you I was a bit worried about that when you mentioned it before. Being without insurance sucks, I went without for the majority of ...

... I can release it while the film adaptation is still in cinemas. I know nobody is supposed to like Dan Brown but I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code so I expect I'll like this one well enough. I'm also reading Bonk but I have to do so "on the sly" (and therefore slowly) as I don't wish to discuss ...

... da Vinci liked to send secret messages to his friends using a Little Orphan Annie decoder ring when you write a review of The da Vinci Code; everybody in the world should already know what it's about). As far as fiction, book reviews that don't even slightly allude to the plot seem like a ...

... begin with a confession. I have not read the novel by Dan Brown on which this film (directed, like its predecessor, “The Da Vinci Code,” by Ron Howard) is based. I have come to believe that to do so would be a sin against my faith, not in the Church of Rome but in the English language, ...

... Bar Code Tattoo (Suzanne Weyn) 2 - Citizen of the Galaxy (Robert Heinlein) 2 - City of Ember (Jeanne DuPrau) 2 - D.A. (Connie Willis) 2 - The Delikon (H. M. Hoover) 2 - Double Identity (Margaret Peterson Haddix) 2 - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Nancy Farmer) 2 - Fahrenhei ...

... I will reject a book if the writing is bad. Some people think this is elitist, especially when it comes to bestsellers like The Da Vinci Code or Twilight - they argue that it's just a fun story, and anyone who complains about the writing is a pretentious snob. But I feel the same way you do: ...

May: 26. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 26 / 62 books. 42% done! 8192 / 20000 pages. 41% done! Next: Sphinx by Robin Cook

... y Crime and Punishment Grapes of Wrath Chronicles of Narnia The lion the witch and the wardrobe Animal Farm Da Vinci Code Handmaid's Tale Lord of the Flies Atonement Of Mice and Men Oliver Twist Notes from a Small Island The Color Purple Charlotte's Web W ...

... Children of Morrow (H. M. Hoover) Children of the Atom (Wilmar H. Shiras) Citizen of the Galaxy (Robert Heinlein) D.A. (Connie Willis) Dragon and Thief (Timothy Zahn) Double Identity (Margaret Peterson Haddix) Emergence (David Palmer) Enchantress from the Stars (Sylvia Engda ...

... with! I'm finishing up two books right now; Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (I'm enjoying it a lot, still have to read The Da Vinci Code), along with The Truelove Bride by Shana Abe (Which I'm undecided on so far, it's a bit slow to build, but I have hope for it still).

... how most people seem to hate (and throw) most books I like. The Historian, The Eight, Twilight, The Expected One, The Da Vinci Code. I guess I read them (especially the last two) with a certain frame of mind. Yes it is cheap and mindless, yes the author probably believes whatever ...

the Da Vinci Code

17. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Got suckered in by the "combination of Outlander and The Da Vinci Code" I saw in a review when the book first came out... Another book that really could have used some serious shortening with no really big payoff...

flissp I'm with you on the DiVinci Code. For the life of me I simply cannot understand what is so special about this book and why it is/was a best seller.

... is the worst book you've read in the past year? Ah, the advantages of LT - any other year (bar the one in which I read The Da Vinci Code), I couldn't have told you. According to my threads, it is probably Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna. 8) What is the best book you've read in the ...

... and wanting to go to museums. America's Castles -- love that show. Then again, these same friends tell me how kewl the Da Vinci Code is. We're good friends from college, but in re: books and music, never the twain shall meet. He listened to Jimmy Buffett, I listened to NIN, yet somehow we ...

I find that if you take a copy of The Da Vinci Code, pour a little yoghurt on it and then place it somewhere warm for a week or two, you get an excellent book culture.

... literary character. I don't generally remember my dreams. 14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as an adult? The Da Vinci Code, I guess. I thought it was alright. 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? See, I really enjoy "difficult" books. It was tough to read ...

... character. None all my dreams seem to involve Zombies 14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as an adult? The De Vinci Code made worse by the fact I was teaching the Crucifixion for Relgious Studies A'level and all my students had read it and believed it, spent a lot of time ...

... people who are consciously trying to consider quality would consider stuff like the Mission Earth series by Hubbard and The Da Vinci Code to be of poor quality*. It may be a subjective thing but I don't think you will find anyone to stand up and defend those books although they have their ...

... For imagining that you might not be right, for not realising that you clearly have some sort of time machine to know that The da Vinci Code has vanished into obscurity 50 years from now.

... much that is subjective about appreciating literature, but there is much that is objective. Or are you going to insist that The Da Vinci Code is actually a good book and we're all too dumb to see it? #148 Bad argument. First, you've no idea if The Da Vinci Code will still be around in 50 ...

... is the worst book you've read in the past year? I try to avoid bad books, so I'll have to go back a few years and say The Da Vinci Code. 8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman. 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read ...

#165: Not yet, I was planning on read the Labyrinth this year sometime. Glad to hear it was better than The Da Vinci Code although I haven't read it yet either and I don't really think I want to. :) Catey.

... think of anything. I don't often remember dreams, though. 14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? The Da Vinci Code 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Complicated-difficult? Or emotionally difficult? For the former, and if we're only counting ...

... I watched) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ...

Shaggy.. Terrific story :) Now mind you, I did like Da Vinci Code but liked Angels and Demons more. I am glad that I didn't imagine Mcgowan's agenda! Please feel free to tell us as many stories as you like ~

... on a book he'd bought from a fellow named Dan Brown. Five years of back and forth trying to pull together something called The Da Vinci Code and still it stank. S&S got fed up with both their editor and Brown. And they fired the editor and told Brown to take a walk. They walked over to Random ...

... becomes this popular I'll have a look to see what all the fuss is about, so I may pick it up eventually. I read a friend's The Da Vinci Code when it was getting its most hype/stick, and while I wouldn't read another Dan Brown book, it was fun and entertained me for what it was.

... (since it's a library book and is due soon) 3. What book did everyone like and you hated? The Time Traveler's Wife, The Da Vinci Code, The Dante Club ....probably a few others too... 4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? Dance With Dragons ...

... nd 3. Dracula - Bram Stoker 4. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 5. Abhorsen trilogy - Garth Nix 6. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown 7. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 9. Sideways Stories From Wayside School - 10. N ...

... Persuasion, Twilight Director's Notebook and The Strain. 3. What book did everyone like and you hated? The Da Vinci Code 4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? None come to mind. 5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?" Non ...

... the list saying yeah, classic, great one... The Lovely Bone??? What the frick?? The Bible, but no other holy texts? The Da Vinci Code?? Oh, now I KNOW you are frinking kidding!!! I have read 30 members of the list and finished 25 of the 30.

... wis 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 60 ...

... wis 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 60 ...

... they read it as an adult. Yes, granted the differences are a function of size. No one knows why books like Harry Potter, The da Vinci Code or Twilight become such huge best-sellers, but you'd be surprised at how effective publishers are at gauging what readers want. The most effective in ...

... ky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 56 The Shad ...

... Hosseini 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 59 The Curious Incident ...

This is a strange list, as there are books on it I'm proud NOT to have read, like The DaVinci Code and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. That said, a list of the ones I've read, with italics for ones I've read part of. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 ...

What a strange mixture of books! There are titles on it I'm proud NOT to have read, such as The DaVinci Code and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. That said, 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry ...

... if it appeals to you!" (Roni said--I agree) MM's comments: There are a few on the list I will definitely pass up (Da Vinci Code I only read because i was asked to so it could be discussed with a friend) and there are some I haven't read YET, I own them and plan to get to them--I may ...

... and exported to the Middle East, Greece, and Rome thousands of years ago. You can read about this is in Shogun and The Da Vinci Code. Why do you think the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge were bonsai trees?

It seems like there's a whole cottage industry growing with Austen, akin to the merchandising burst associated with The Da Vinci Code I'm waiting for Pride and Prejudice: the flamethrower. Ya know, for the kids ;) 85: re: whingeing authors. It's not that he's whingeing, it's what he's ...

... liked Angels and Demons a bit better, I think. I had read Holy Blood Holy Grail years ago, and then again after I read The Da Vinci Code. The subject interests me. Furthermore, as I have said before, I enjoy books about shenanigans at the Vatican, both fiction and non-fiction. I am also ...

I liked The Thirteenth Tale . I also however have descended to the level of Dan Brown and enjoyed both The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I wonder of people realize how insulting it is to readers of a particular author to make comments like that, #8. This is a readers site, you ...

I admit having a fleeting pang when my mother handed my 13-year-old The DaVinci Code. I'm Catholic, she can't stand the Church, so I felt some of it was her passive-aggressive way of reminding me she doesn't approve of my belief system. On the other hand, I've read DVC myself, and my sense ...

I'll stop reading if the prose is awful. The record in this category is held by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code; I opened it at random, read a paragraph or two of gut-wrenching drivel, and shoved it back on the shelf. If none of the main characters are likable, I'll decide not to waste any ...

... Meanwhile, I'm enjoying your thread, Stretch! I love the basic action and relaxation reading, as well as my Kafka. Da Vinci Code has been in my tbr pile for a while now--I may just have to move it more towards the top :) Oh, and I especially liked your review of Joker One--I'd been ...

... LZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 441 Pages Fiction The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan This is a mystery along the same lines as The Da Vinci Code only more interesting in my opinion. It explores the prominent position of Mary Magdalene in Christ's ministry and her exclusion from main stream Christia ...

... and Punishment But maybe Twilight's popularity will be a blessing in disguise. How much has Dan Brown written since The Da Vinci Code?

The one that keeps coming up for me is The Da Vinci Code. I adore it and even have the illustrated version!

>32 Sutpen - don't be embarrassed! I loved my reading of The Da Vinci Code... I was at uni and everyone wanted to go and see the movie that evening but I was determined to read the book first. So I had a quick breakfast as soon as the breakfast room opened, took a mug down to fill to the brim ...

... which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

... which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

... think we ever did... I just finished The Book of Air and Shadows and found it Very entertaining. Much in the style of The DaVinci Code but Far better written (and much more plausible). Is there really that many lunatics living in Manhattan?

... truly had any staying power? Okay, Harry Potter is still pretty big what with the movies that are still coming out, and The Da Vinci Code still gets mentioned from time to time. But without looking it up, can you name the number one bestseller on the NY Times list from this week last year?

... that poor writing will distract me from enjoying what might have otherwise been a good book. A perfect example of this is The Da Vinci Code. The writing was so very poor that I could not enjoy the story. And I'm someone who reads popular mysteries as my escapist literature! So, if even you ...

... a low profile that will stay the course. Unlike those with a high profile which won't. I think a perfect example might be The Da Vinci Code. I've looked it up on wiki. There's a movie in the making. That might change things.

... it would generally be agreed by most adults that Anna Karenina has more qualities of a "good" (if not more fun) book than The DaVinci Code.

... - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 54 Sen ...

... at least TRYING to get people to read more. It's depressing how few people actually read anything. Who cares if they read The Da Vinci Code as long as they're reading? Maybe it'll be a revelation that there are other LESS crappy books they can read :)

... Weekly it's a bit hard to take seriously right off the bat. And any list that would say Eat Pray Love and the Da Vinci Code are modern classics is just pretty darn funny. Definitely one of the strangest mixes I've seen so far.

... objective standards about what is good, it's not simply a matter of opinion or popularity. Despite its great popularity, The Da Vinci Code isn't particularly well written, and Anna Karenina is, whether anyone is reading it these days or not.

... I had to wrestle with that for a while before I decided that there was nothing wrong with it. For example: When I read The DaVinci Code I was working close to 70 hours a week. Was I entertained? Yes, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Could I have handled Ulysses in its place? Certainly ...

... 'in' books because of their cultural impact - it's a case of belonging to the 'cool gang'. This is why books like HP and The Da Vinci Code stop being mere books and become 'events': they are closer to High School Musical or Michael Jackson's Thriller or The Dark Knight ...

... them, but the writing is dreadful. So many of the people whose opinions I respect have complained about how poorly written The DaVinci Code is that I know I'll never pick it up. I've also never read The Poisonwood Bible, nor anything else by Kingsolver, for that matter. I actually had a ...

... to my watchlist because I like sci-fi but have yet to actually get to it. On the other hand, I'll probably never read The Da Vince Code or 2666 because the premises just don't sound interesting. I don't care who recommends them to me. Then there's a middle area--books that sound kind ...

... Poisonwood Bible, to name one. --Or confirmed in your theory about best seller lists? Yes, Tuesdays With Morrie and the DaVinci Code (although the first was a complete and total waste of time, I am still glad I read the second, for some reason. It's a book I love to hate, while Morrie ...

... read the unbelievably putrid The Dante Club . . .) I've never read a Harry Potter book, anything by Sue Monk Kidd, or DaVinci Code. Just not the kind of thing that interests me. A few other highly-hyped books that didn't send me into raptures: The Birth of Venus, anything by Philippa ...

... no T-Stone) by Mary Summer Rain, which was not hyped, but The Shack reminds me of that book. I read and did not hate Da Vinci Code. It doesn't rank as a favorite, but as I have said before, I am entertained by stories ( true or not true) of shenanigans at the Vatican. I most often read to ...

I'll give anything at all a chance but I am extremely prejudiced against truly bad books (roll on up The DaVinci Code, that's a day of my life I'll never get back again!). Award winners, hmm. I must admit, Booker for me has come to symbolise mediocrity of recent years so I am always ...

... was usually quite fun and interesting to understand what others had been alluding to. I haven't done this since reading the da vinci code which I don't mind that much as a story, but do for the way it was written. I didn't pick up a book for a couple of weeks afterwards, I think it put me off, ...

... has everything to do with something in my personal history and not some larger cultural critique. I have read, for example, The Da Vinci Code,Water for Elephants and The Lovely Bones, but I read them prior to publication and hype (and the copy was free:-) Usually hype puts me off a book. ...

... into a contrived controversy that would make defenders and detractors rich at your expense? (Personal choice would be The DaVinci Code here.) (Entry edited in an attempt to provide sufficient examples of views expressed while in no way attempting to offend any individual readers or ...

... to all you LTers, when it comes to avoiding the true crap, I just can't go wrong. It's pretty easy to keep Twilight, The Da Vinci Code and Atlas Shrugged off my TBR pile.

... U.S. history bears no more a relationship with the actual history of those periods than Dan Brown's made up history in The DaVinci Code bears to the actual history of the Catholic church. Davis' actions were clearly treason. The only question was whether it was politically wise to try ...

... at my library on LT, you'll see that my taste in literature is far from populist. If society will accept the likes of The Da Vinci Code, which is an appallingly written book, but rejects the FFFC, that must mean FFFC is a very badly-written book. But since you don't appear to read anything ...

... title. I warned him that it was heavy, but he was attracted by the Templar and conspiracy themes, and he had enjoyed The Davinci Code, to which FP is considered the rough equivalent for the intellectually superior. To his credit he did get about halfway through, and told me that he ...

... good. A good book has to have some reason to be good. A qaulification it must meet. Though there is a great dislike for Da Vinci Code, and certainly its failings have been pointed out. What are the criteria to be called a good book that it has none of so the 2000 lovers of the book would ...

... title on lots of "best of" lists, but I have never stopped to find out what it's about (the title vaguely made me think of The Da Vinci Code, which is pretty silly now that I see it in writing).

Hated The Da Vinci Code and was mad at myself for finishing it, but I liked The Historian up until it just sort of meandered off in the last 100 pages. However, Foucault's Pendulum I have read twice, and that is rare for me. It is probably part of the reason I hated The Da Vinci Code so ...

How can one assume that the rating system is meaningless for the 2000 people who rated Da Vinci 5's unless you ask them? That is where the argument that a popular book is not a good book dies. Completely dead!!! If just one person thinks that the book is a good book, then you have a problem ...

... impressively well written, but pull a lot of readers along for some other reason, like Dan Brown's engaging puzzle plot in Da Vinci code. But it also can also be engaging and remarkably well-written, like Gilead. To me, both Dan Brown and Marilyn Robinson use transparent prose. So ...

... are actually quite good - like The Commitments or Marnie. OTOH, they managed to make a shit film out of a shit book, The Da Vinci Code... so I think your plan is flawed.

... British sf author in the UK. He also happens to be very good. So, yes, good authors can be popular. The reason The Da Vinci Code has five stars is because the stars are entirely meaningless. They could be for the best cover-art for all you know. There's no context. It's like tagging. ...

... or containing fully realized characters, or evocative of deeper thinking, that are nonetheless wildly popular. The Da Vinci Code is certainly popular, but it's an easy target because, as others have pointed out, it's derivative (to put it kindly); the plot is silly, and the ...

142 While I am interested in reading outside my zone of comfort to stretch my realm of literary experience, I think that The Da Vinci Code is a bad hill to decide to make a last stand on. A poor work from a stylistic standpoint, but more importantly (despite the legal verdict) ultimately it ...

... seemed to be about archaeology (which fascinates me). It turned out to be surprisingly good. A thriller in the manner of The DaVinci Code without the ciphers and relating a possible tale based on the existence of an unknown apostolic gospel of the first century. The writing was easy to read ...

... the rules they would impose were to be accepted, much of what is available would be excised. For Ian, an item like the Da Vinci Code which is tremendously popular is not good. For me too, it is not good. Several thousand LT'ers have given it a collective 3.53 rating, a high C, better than ...

... as an indicator of good, but there are a number of objective criteria against which a work of fiction can be judged. And The Da Vinci Code fails on many. It is not good, but it is popular. The plot of The da Vinci Code is an idiot plot. The central premise is stolen from another work, ...

I haven't read The Da Vinci Code, so i have no idea if the book's plot revolves around why ejj will never read Angels and Demons. It could do, but it seems a little unlikely. Isn't the main plot something to do with a religious conspiracy? Maybe ejj is in a sub-plot. I have read Papillion.

I haven't read Angels and Demons, and probably never will, but I have read The Da Vinci Code, which explains why . . .

I've just read your thread and had to add my voice to the Da Vinci Code fans. I read it in one hit too, and was the same with Angels and Demons. And I loved HP as well. Spacepotatoes, thanks for the warning on Deception Point. Elliepotten I haven't even attempted Joyce or Kafka... I ...

It's funny how people's taste varies. I found The Traveler to be a not-very-original wannabe thriller along the lines of The DaVinci Code, while I really enjoyed The Eyre Affair both for its plot and for its characters. I respect both of your tastes, having read your reviews, but in this case, ...

"Religious thriller" is what I call books like The Da Vinci Code, The Last Cato, etc. -- books that are at their core thrillers but involve some sort of religious controversy, mostly something that is "dangerous to the Church." I've read many of them (there are even some written from a fairly C ...

51 OK, waitaminit, so you're saying that there isn't any teabagging in The da Vinci Code?

I read The Holy Blood and the holy Grail back in the early 1980s, so most of The da Vinci Code was already known to me...

Ian, if I knew ANY of the particulars of The Da Vinci Code I would be ashamed of myself and certainly would NOT let on that I knew. Two more strikes on the snob meter and you may have to turn in your badge. That said, I got roped in to reading Angels & Demons, the guy does know how to ...

... is actually Teabing - an anagram of Baigent, one of the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. I'm not sure The Da Vinci Code would have been improved if Brown had included some teabagging in it...

These both sound great - thanks Zoe and Kiwidoc! And yep, I agree about the reviews. Have you read The Code Book by Simon Singh? (just thinking of other maths books that I've liked).

>42 Compared with The DaVinci Code, I'd rate Titanic as a movie masterpiece of the highest order. On its own merits, I'd rate Titanic as an overlong, overblown disaster flick with some good bits. (For example, I liked it when the elderly Rose, being prodded by one of the guys on the ship that ...

I have read the The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and believe me when I say that The Da Vinci Code was the best amongst the lot! I concur with the rest of you that he has a very torturous writing style and lack strongly in logic (in ...

>303: Whisper1, Angels and Demons was worse than The DaVinci Code. I had tried it to see if my reaction to the latter was just an anomaly. Nope! >305: Stasia, I think it's simply that anytime you revise Christian history and include attacks upon it, you're going to get a firestorm. It ...

Re: the Davinci Code - I did not love it, I did not hate it, I was just kind of 'meh' about it. I never did understand what all the hullaballou about the book was and I certainly never understood why we had to have documentaries on the Discovery channel and its' pseudoscientists explaining a ...

... up" to make a bet that most of the following responses (#298 until this one) will be nearly unanimous in their dislike of DaVinci Code. I had to read it because so many people in my area kept asking me my opinion of it--because I'm "the reader"--they wanted to know if all that was true! ...

Another vote against The DaVinci Code. I liked the first half or so but it went straight down hill after that. My wife didn't like it either.

ronincats... Whew...finally, I found someone who did not like The DaVinci Code. I read this when it first came out because all my friends were raving about it. They simply could not understand why I didn't like it. I remember telling them that I grew tired of all the illogical chase scenes ...

I read The DaVinci Code because a friend pressed a copy into my hands raving about it. I found it the most ADHD book I have ever read. 3 page chapters. Staccato prose. I had to read a chapter (all three pages), put the book down for a day, read another chapter, wait another day...you get the ...

I heard somewhere that The Club Dumas was the intellectual's Da Vinci Code. I loved the Ninth Gate: Depp, Langella, and Lena Olin as the "inconsolable widow." Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all? Old Ma ...

I have never read The Da Vinci Code but I have read Wicked Lovely

Ok long enough then....neeneer neeneer...ok now seriously I haven't read Gridlock but I have read The Da Vinci Code

#434 - ...and if he wrote a menu for McDonalds it would be a bestseller. I don't think so. I think The DaVinci Code was a fluke of timing. Don't forget, that was the guys fourth book. No one read the others (including the very similar Angels and Demons) until that book hit so big. He ...

... have been produced confirming this. The debunking was started long before either The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail or the Davinci Code were written. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion

410: I'm saying that the story in The Davinci Code is fiction, and Brown doesn't contest that. He has asserted that the details concerning the Priory of Sion, the secret rituals and other "historical" elements are true. This claim, if he has maintained it in the face of the various debunkings ...

... Grail. Not having read either book, but having had endless History Channel documentaries crammed down my throat during The DiVinci Code hype, it does look like he plagarized the book. Not a single documentary could air without having to reference that book multiple times. I wasn't surprised ...

I've just found your thread - what a great list for January. I really enjoyed the Code Book and Singh's book on Fermat's Last Theorem was excellent too if you haven't already read it. I just clicked on your profile and see we share Cathedral of the Sea (and 46 others). Have you read ...

... Gene is currently reading those novels. He doesn't seem to feel abused. Try looking around LT for some of the posts on The Da Vinci Code or even try going through some of the old posts here at Sci Fi Fans (the ones about old sci-fi films for instance). Sorry man, I just want to defend ...

... it was okay; I started Ulysses and had no idea what the hell was going on... I read Harry Potter and Twilight and The Da Vinci Code and laughed and cried and got so excited I couldn't put them down - and that's why they'll stick in my mind and on my bookshelves longer. That doesn't ...

See, I loved The Da Vinci Code - it was fast paced and exciting - and I'm sick of people constantly going on about how Dan Brown is only enjoyed by plebs whose only other reading is Heat magazine. I liked it! I think it's time we intelligent LibraryThingers ganged up on the literary snobs and ...

... Brown thing, stretch. He's not exactly quality literature but he's entertaining. I loved Angels and Demons and I enjoyed The DaVinci Code. I do have to say, though, that if I had the choice to make over again, I wouldn't go near Deception Point with a 10 foot pole :)

... more surprising, and far more than he has any right to hope he will ever see. I recommend this book to anyone who felt The Da Vinci Code was too facile and longs for a quest novel that will actually satisfy the real basis of the quest myth: “Know thyself.” I read this book, and at the ...

... But by the end, I was practically standing on my chair, cheering on our hero. And I agree, just because I've catalogued Da Vinci Code doesn't mean I thought it was a great book. It just means that I read it. (For the record: it was a badly written plagiarised page turner that I couldn't put ...

... the fact that he can make me read 400 pages in three hours. That said, of course I'd take The Secret History over The Da Vinci Code any day, so I'm REALLY curious now how I will feel about Calamity Physics, if you say it's somewhere in between :)

... parallels therein. I enjoyed it but wish to sound a note of caution: I see it as a cross between the Secret History and The DaVinci Code - it lacks the calm confidence of the Tartt book. That said, I'd still reccommend it - and look forward to your reaction

Mine is The Da Vinci Code with 28031 people, followed by 1984 with 24127 people. The top five most owned in my collection, excluding The Da Vinci Code are all classics. I don't feel so much like a dying reader breed now :D

5. The Va Dinci Cod by A.R.R.R. Roberts I read the The Da Vinci Code because I couldn't resist the hype. But it just wasn't my kind of book. It was an easy read and enjoyable but that's it. Last Saturday I found The Va Dinci Cod, a parody. And that's something I see the fun of, normally ...

... & enjoy the ride. I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories. But i do enjoy a mystery in exotic locations & so i enjoyed The Da Vinci Code what i have become rather annoyed w/is the constant retelling of history of the Templars. The fact that no new information is ever presented in any of ...

... rich, no matter how slight your other talents. Dan Brown's morale is probably very high. 5) If you see a person reading The DaVinci Code, slowly back away. 6) I broke out in hives. I hope this helps! Good luck with the project!

15. Splintered Icon by Bill Napier. This is a thriller written along the line of The DaVinci Code without a lot of the ciphers. At first I wasn't terribly impressed. I found the dialogue a bit stilted and the plot unoriginal. It got better after the introduction of Ogilvie's journal, as a ...

... Tuscan Sun Harry Potter Twilight To Kill a Mockingbird The Orchid Thief spawned a movie called "Adaptation" The Da Vinci Code The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Big Fish House of Sand and Fog Little Children The Ice Storm Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Inkheart ...

I found The DaVinci Code so ridiculous and overrated. What about "that book DaVinci Coded once the waitress quit her job"? (for example!)

I got my ER book, Connecticut Baseball, today. I will start it tonight. I'm also finishing my audio version of the Da Vinci Code. I have audio books on my computer, iPod, and as CDS, so I listen to them randomly. I'm also reading my textbooks. I read The Book Thief a few weeks ago and ...

... Night Live did a brilliant send up of this book w/Amy Pohler as the author. It's worth trying to find on YouTube. And The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown?!! This guy is laughing all the way to the bank. I imagine him thinking, mmm, what's the formula to getting on the bestseller list? I'm ...

... Should some user have to have every single one in order to comment on the series overall? Of course Twilight or The Da Vinci Code will get drive-bys but for the vast majority of series I think it's safe to say that that won't happen. Nothing can ever be completely safe from that, but ...

... 8th grade, so lets give them the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand we have a discussion going of Phenom Books. The Da Vinci Code needs to be read sometime in an avid readers life, just to ensure you are prepared for discussions such as this about what the fuss is. I read it and I ...

... is all about. It certainly seems to evoke strong reactions in people, love it or hate it. Of course, I said I should read The DaVinci Code for the same reason and I still haven't gotten around to that one.

Toch maar, net als zovele anderen, De Da Vinci code. Het boek is op zich niet slecht, het leest ongelooflijk makkelijk en is op bepaalde momenten zelfs heel interessant en spannend. Dan Brown weet duidelijk hoe hij een boek moet schrijven. Wat me vooral stoorde was het meer dan belachelijke ...

... a challenge indeed. Alright, so books on my (for now short) list so far: Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (check!) Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (check!) Deception Point - Dan Brown (check!) Digital Fortress - Dan Brown (check!) Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (check!) The Tw ...

Finished listening to Book of Air and Shadows and it was wonderful. Much better than DaVinci Code with a much more complex plot that doesn't get lost in all kinds of techno wonders and all that over-the-top ending for which Dan Brown is famous. This was truely a literary mystery. I even ...

... of the Bible --with essays written exclusively by liberal and skeptical interpreters. Then of course there is the Da Vinci Code. Now, few scholars orthodox or not would claim to take it seriously. But the silly assertions of the book owe a few things to arguments made in much more ...

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I've read the Da Vinci Code, but nothing by Janet Evanovich.

... get the game back on track . . . I've read Vampire Kisses (hey, it starts with the same letters), But I've never read The Da Vinci Code.

... reach these conclusions for us as individuals. ;) It guessed right that I probably wouldn't like The Bell Jar or The DaVinci Code while also right on that I would love The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte. I think it would be great if we could see an entire list of books at once for ...

... There was no particular distinction between the pop books I would never read and the classics that I have read and love (The Da Vinci Code and To Kill a Mockingbird received essentially the same score). So it looks like the common books are not falling in the middle, but the low middle. ...

... New Moon Eclipse Audacity of Hope Letter to a Christian Nation *God Delusion Charlie Bone and the Shadow *Da Vinci Code (audio version) *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone( both audio version and 10 year anniversary edition) *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (aud ...

... narrator that keeps the story alive. I'll set 2666 aside for a while. Let the buzz die down a bit. Is 2666 the Da Vinci Code for the sentient? (At least in terms of critical buzz and cultural impact.) Time to put Against the Day in the reading queue. I finished Crying of Lot ...

... says about Dan Brown's style, it's still a page turner and not a bad thriller for the buck. For the record I liked the The Da Vinci Code better because it dealt more with art, a subject that I'm unfamilar with, resulting in less internal arguments over the "science" presented in the book.

I don't understand all the hating on The Da Vinci Code. It's a work of fiction, and as far as I can tell, doesn't pretend to be anything else. The opening of "everything I'm about to tell you is true" is a pretty standard one for novels, especially gothic fiction. I thought it was a fun ...

... give in to certain books as often as the next person but some books, no matter how hyped, I simply am not interested in. Da Vinci Code for example (I can't think of another example right now) sounded awful and I never bothered reading it because I knew it really wasn't something I would like. ...

... unbelievable. Still, plenty props to the author for keeping me turning the pages. I had kind of the same reaction to The Da Vinci Code--I didn't think it was a particularly good book, but the story did keep me interested and wanting to find out what happened next, and a lot of books don't ...

... I'd be disappointed if they weren't. I'm curious about the alleged historical inaccuracies of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. It was more or less the essential ideas of Holy Blood, Holy Grail incorporated as plot elements of a mystery novel. As far as I have been able to ...

... et j'aime bien le rythme, plus lent: par exemple La fin du cercle de Tom Egeland est la même intrigue que le Da Vinci code de Dan Brown tout en étant complètement différent. (Attention, le livre d'Egeland a été écrit plusieurs années avant le livre de Brown)

... the English titels and also used touchstones. I've seen some of the books I'm going te read in other threads, like The Da Vinci Code, The shining, The shadow of the wind and The mists of Avalon.

Ach, de Da Vinci code, die stond in de boekenkast toen ik in Schotland griep kreeg tijdens een vrijwilligersweek. Wel blij dat ik hem gelezen heb, dan weet je ten minste waar mensen het over hebben. Je moet het gewoon zien als een detective, vooral niet serieus nemen, wat veel mensen helaas toch ...

... On other threads I've previously trashed Dan Brown. I couldn't get past the scene with the self-flagellating albino in Da Vinci Code. Lest I forget let's also include the author of The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield, who needs to go back and repeat third grade grammar and spelling. ...

#97: I'm having a hard time imagining the audio Da Vinci Code. Maybe that's because I have the illustrated version and I think the most fun part of reading that book is scrutinizing the art the reference. Okay, so glutton for punishment that I am, I left a comment on my blog to see if the ...

I had a random urge to reread the Da Vinci Code. I don't know where it came from. Must've been a subliminal message from somewhere. Anyhow, I have it on cd, so I'm listening to it while I study for finals.

... t/wj71jQ7/exercise.png"> Some options: - Kruistocht in spijkerbroek - Thea Beckman (Dutch) - De Da Vinci Code / The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Dagboek van een Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha - Athur Golden - Claim / Charles den Tex (Dutch) - Chocolat / Chocolat - Joanne Harris ...

... feel like the dialogue doesn't compare to what's in novels (at least the ones I read--I make no comment on the quality of The Da Vinci Code, which I haven't read, except to note that Stephen Fry described it as "arse-gravy of the very worst kind"). I was flipping through Watchmen at the ...

... several of the Sandman volumes) have made me think more and are better written than some of the regular novels I've read (The Da Vinci Code for instance)... If you're a big fan of graphic novels, are there any besides Watchmen (which I've read) and V for Vendetta (already on the list), ...

... so sometimes one can find 'new' authors this way. That said, the novels do vary (a reminder that, back some years ago, the Da Vinci Code showed up repeatedly on this list). Generally speaking, I see a lot of nominations from many countries for A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Reluctant Funda ...

... surrounding "the lady in blue", a nun who can bi-locate herself through time. I rather enjoyed this - it was a bit of The Da Vinci Code and Michael Crichton thrown in together. Also, kudos to the reader - he was very good with the different accents needed in the book!

... a best-seller when there are often similar books that are far superior. It's the subject of many a thesis, I would guess. The DaVinci Code is one for me that confuses. It's entertaining, but the supposed unsolvable puzzles are ridiculous. (The Will Shortz crowd must have gotten a good ...

... l'ho letto tutto di un fiato. Per evasione. La stessa cosa mi è successa con Angeli e demoni, mentre non ho ancora letto Il codice Da Vinci. Secondo me bisognerebbe essere aperti a leggere di tutto. A parte questo, cosa mi dite di Murakami Haruki? Io lo adoro. Il mio pseudonimo è il nome ...

... = 4.23 2. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution by Robert C Atkins. LT # 3763 - 749 owners - 5 reviews - rating = 3.1 3. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. LT #7 - 26,468 owners - 589 reviews - rating = 3.54 4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling. LT # 8 - 25,451 ...

... a book about George Bush on a book about George Bush, instead of looking at the real person. (Just a thought...) As for Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons I feel like I should have loved it, but...I just didn't.

... I finished it was because my older son and a very good "book friend" both recommended it and I felt sort of obligated. Da Vinci Code is right up there with Celestine Prophecy on my "worst ever" books list--not because of the stories but because of being very poorly written--Dan Brown ...

... version and felt Historian paled by comparison. I also got annoyed by all the coincidences (same reason I didn't like Da Vinci Code--please don't lynch me!) and although they went through the motions of using the religious symbols to ward off the danger they didn't really believe in the ...

... Demons 9. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot EC. The Last Templar EC. Da Vinci Code

The DaVinci Code ? Ok, i'm not really serious. But i'm seriously curious about this book.

... I've read them and the tag no longer applies). On the first page, working from the bottom, I was recommended: * The Da Vinci Code, even though I read Angels and Demons in August. * Century of Revolution, 1603-1714, even though I read A Monarchy Transformed: ...

... proportionality. A few examples from the Wikipedia list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books): Da Vinci Code 57,000,000 24141 0.04235% The Catcher in the Rye 65,000,000 20667 0.03180% The Hobbit 100,000,000 24364 0.02436% The wind in the willows 25,000,000 36 ...

#44 Bill Masom - I'm another Simon Singh fan. I really enjoyed both the Code Book and Fermat's Enigma. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis was a lovely maths read too. Has anyone read Simon Singh's book on alternative medicine Trick or Treat? I'm in the ...

#81 mamachunk: I read The Eight this year as well and agree completely that it is much better than The DaVinci Code. I do not think I enjoyed it as much as you did - I thought it could have been shortened by about 100 pages, but for a first effort (at least I think it was - she has since ...

... quickly, if I do I shall start Angels and Demons by Dan Brown as I've been told by a friend that it's better than The Davinci Code.

... that I hardly did any reading (I think that’s the sign of a good holiday: having too much fun to read). I finished the Da Vinci code. The plot was good and kept moving along quickly, though some of the attempts at character development were quite painful. There were also points in the ...

... me: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown which I have read but never owned. Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio which I read in high school and loved. Les Miserables by Victor ...

I was recommended The Eight by a friend after a brief discussion of Umberto Eco and, naturally enough, The Da Vinci Code. I loved Foucault's Pendulum and have always meant to read The Name of the Rose after seeing the movie. Neville's effort, regrettably, was for me laughable. At ...

... Fatal North by Bruce Henderson today. Bought 4 Non-Fiction books yesterday at Goodwill, so will probably read The Code Book by Simon Singh next, or They Met at Gettysburg by General Edward J. Stackpole, both which were in those purchased. Bill Masom

... that makes for interesting guesswork and conversation. Even the book's cover is meaningful. You might also consider The Da Vinci Code since it has received a lot of attention and is well known. Your No Country For Old Men could be a good choice except that it might be too severe ...

... one). Calling her books literature, however, might be a stretch, unless one is comparing them to my favorite punching bag, The Da Vinci Code. Georgette Heyer wrote some good novels as well and deserves credit for her vocabulary, which is good by most standards and extraordinary among ...

You've probably got a well-thumbed copy of The Da Vinci Code hidden away somewhere...

I didn't hate the The Davinci Code because it's deficiencies as fiction were almost immediately apparent. It's like drinking a can of grape soda at a barbecue -you know it's no good for you, but you drink it to be a good guest at the party. I am amazed when people take the thing seriously on ...

I didn't hate the The Davinci Code because it's deficiencies as fiction were almost immediately apparent. It's like drinking a can of grape soda at a barbecue -you know it's no good for you, but you drink it to be a good guest at the party. I am amazed when people take the thing seriously on ...

double post city....

I didn't hate the The Davinci Code because it's deficiencies as fiction were almost immediately apparent. It's like drinking a can of grape soda at a barbecue -you know it's no good for you, but you drink it to be a good guest at the party. Reading The Davinci Code was like going to see the R ...

... hated--3 page chapters, ADHD changes of focus, the style completely killed what might have been a tolerable story--was The Davinci Code. (ducks for cover) I read it because so many were raving about it, a good friend gave me the book. I could read maybe two-three pages at a sitting, then ...

... Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Beautifully written #19: Antigone by Sophocles - short but sweet #20: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - I was surprised by this. I liked it more than I thought I would; also read for school well, that's it for now!

... in with my dear LT family if this is worth a read. I heard it's an interesting story and less controversial compared with The Da Vinci Code.

Most readers apparently stick to what they like. Hence the flood of The da Vinci code-alikes after the success of that book. And some of those were quite successful. Unfortunately, authors who don't deliver books which are "like" their earlier, successful books also suffer. and that encourages ...

... by Stephen King. Who has a new or like-new copy? Who wants Memoirs of a Geisha or The Devil Wears Prada or The DaVinci Code or Once Upon a Town or The Testament for it? I have LOTS more.... tell me what you like! email me at: broomist@gmail.com - thanks!

I've read but haven't cataloged The Da Vinci Code. Right now I tell myself that's because I only catalog books I own. But when collections come I'll no longer be able to hide behind that excuse . . . .

I'm nearly finished The Da vinci Code, and am quite enjoying it. Knights, monks, conspiracy theories, all make for a good read. On the down side, some of the descriptions of characters are enough to make me groan and roll my eyes. The plot is fast paced enough to keep me going though, but I don't ...

... everyone else is reading (although I quite often will eventually, just to see what all the fuss was about - hence reading The Da Vinci Code, which I never would have read otherwise and still wonder why I did). Mostly though, this is because I have my head in the clouds a lot of the time and I ...

Well, I have three suggestions. I hate to say it but you may be describing The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. Despite its many weeks on best seller lists, it's not a great book, but it is fun and easy to read, and worth reading. My other suggestion is to try an old Agatha Christie short story ...

... a similar work will also do so. Despite the fact no one really knows why some books are runaway best-sellers - like The Da Vinci Code, a central concept stolen from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, badly-structured, appalling prose; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, just ...

I'm still reading the Da Vinci Code and should have it finished in a few days. It was my holiday read, but I was sick last week so started it early, so I have had to re-arrange my holiday reading. 3 weeks holiday starting on Friday, and I'm taking Watership Down, the Potato Factory and A man ...

... not enjoy. But I wondered if perhaps my dissatisfaction with it was because I had read it almost immediately after I read The Da Vinci Code which I did enjoy, and which has spawned my interest in the historical religious mystery genre. Having come from a very strict Catholic upbringing.. and ...

>7 fredbacon: "Fish fur" has made a huge hit in our house! The DaVinci Code wasn't my favorite read of the past 10 years, but I won't say the subject matter wasn't interesting. I liked that whole "women's role in history altered to please men" trope; it makes clear a societal attitude that ...

62- Angels and Demons is a prequel and I hear they are making it into a movie - with Tom Hanks, of course. I read DaVinci Code mostly because of all the hype around that movie - not understanding why all the hype, but I got to read a book I really liked as well as a new author and one my ...

... start in Angels and Demons in a couple of minutes. Which is a book by Dan Brown, and I believe also is the prequel to The Da Vinci Code. I really like Brown's writing style and he has me often in suspense while reading his books. Still a couple of similiar plots evolve throughout some of ...

... it for the group read, but it's a great book, I can see why it's good for book clubs. Lots to talk about. I started the Da Vinci Code last night. So far so good, although I've heard some not so good comments. # 70 richardderus. is My Lucky Star a new book? It doesn't seem to be in my ...

Mi diverto molto a leggere questi commenti. Concordo in pieno con i commenti su Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code ecc.) e Susanna Tamaro. A proposito di quest'ultima, quando molti anni fa ho letto Va dove ti porta il cuore non sono riuscita a capire cosa ci fosse di tanto speciale e di conseguenza, ...

... The one book that came close for me as being that bad (also required to finish) -- don't everybody yell at me at once!--was The Da Vinci Code--it had all the requirements of abomination: bad writing, uninteresting characters, predictable plot (I had most of it figured out half way through), ...

... but it looks to be some sort of a Hellboy-ish mixture of Nazis and the undead. The comparisons (however off-handed) to The Da Vinci Code are the only thing that worries me. I'll be tackling it once I complete the ARC book I'm working through.

I'm nearly finished with The Book of Air and Shadows. It's a terrific book. A snazzier version of The Da Vinci Code, with deeper characteristics and better prose. I don't know if this is taboo but I did see a film with literary nuances, that I highly recommend. It's called "Starting Out in ...

... di mode? Che si tratti di una specie di autocondizionamento universale? Per esempio, c'è qualcuno che ha detestato IL CODICE DA VINCI ? o che si è rifiutato di leggere l'ennesimo libro incentrato sull'Afghanistan? Ditemi, vi prego, che almeno uno di voi non ha mai letto Camilleri perchè ...

... person, so I enjoyed it all the more when I found out that it was. Thanks Prop2gether for the recommendation! 302. The Code Book by Simon Singh - nonfiction; I love this kind of stuff 303. Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb - audiobook 304. West with the Night by Beryl Mar ...

... isn't, & Saint Paul). http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/1647.html When the parish priest started spouting out about The Da Vinci Code (an appallingly bad book, but not for his reasons), I started wearing this button to services: http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/0087.html Fortunately, ...

... of the Wind which I had stopped reading temporarily. Funny, how Son of the Morning had this Knights of the Templar Da Vinci Code theme to it as does Foucault's Pendulum and Shadow of the Wind reminds me a bit of Foucault's Pendulum, probably mostly because of the setting primarily, ...

... by Linda Howard This was a great book! Technically, a Scottish time travel romance, but more like The Pelican Brief, The Da Vinci Code, Outlander and the movie, "Nurse Betty" all rolled up into one! A real page turner, exciting, sexy and a thriller - read it! ktleyed in Romance - from historical to contemporary : What Are You Reading the Week of August 25th? (Ago 30, 2008, 2:14am)

... liked it and now I'm reading Son of the Morning and am really enjoying it! I didn't realize it was going to be like The Da Vinci Code, The Pelican Brief, some Outlander and Nurse Betty all wrapped up in to one! So far so good!

... IS such a book (life-changing, worldview-altering, etc.) out there, I'd love to know about it. :) Take your pick: The Da Vinci Code, The Secret, whatever Mitch Albom has written lately? We've got a million of 'em!

... for crap is pretty amusing. The number one book tagged with that is The DaVinci Code. Heh. It was tagged 38 times with 'crap' and the next book on the list was only tagged twice and the rest only once each. A related tagmash is 'crap, -dan ...

... the same year as Foucault's Pendulum, 1988, this is a very different book along the same lines--age-old secret of power--Da Vinci Code type stuff. Problem is that both Dan Brown and Umberto Eco are better writers. Good story but a style that makes me want to say 'juvenile"--more YA than ...

60. The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis Rating 1/5 61. The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code by Robert Rankin Rating 4/5 62. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis Rating 1/5 63. The Secret - Das Geheimnis (Arkana) by Rhonda Byrne Rating 4/5 ...

... and Suspense Irish Whiskey An Occasion of Sin Contract With an Angel Sacred Visions White Smoke Da Vinci Code Blue Taper Woman Who Fell From Grace Western Trail from Taos Fort de Chastaigne Historical Fiction Girl With the Pearl Earrin ...

... of the time, I think you can. A lot of money goes into marketing books, and I think they get it right most of the time. The DaVinci Code reads like what it's cover looks like. Besides, I thought you just implied Robert Sawyer's books were stinkbombs...

Through a tough schedule I finished this book in a week. The book reads quickly similar to The Da Vinci Code which also has a narrow time window in which all the action occurs. While this contracts the events into an action-packed book it does not allow for filling out the characters fully. Man ...

... through one of them. Don't remember which, but it doesn't matter because after that one I'm never reading another); The Da Vinci Code (though I have no opinion of his others as I refuse to read another one by Brown in this lifetime); most of Rice's vampire novels, except I loved Intervie ...

... you? But no...I am 10 times as tired now. But, I have finished... Book 25: The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne - a Da Vinci Code wannabe without the page-turning thrill. Ho hum... Book 26: Jack and Jill by James Patterson - he churns them out at about a book a month, which makes ...

rant on topic off/ The da vinci code annoyed me (as a book) as much as anything i've ever read. Even though i knew i shouldn't take it "seriously" i couldn't get over being PO'd that something that shite was on top of the best seller list forever, it seemed. And the conceit that there was such ...

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... it when people read books JUST because they're popular (or because Oprah tells them to). It took me 3 years to read the Da Vinci Code. I'll read something because someone whose opinion I trust tells me too (sometimes), but not always just because it's popular - or if I discover it on my own. ...

... gelezen heb: Bezonken rood en Fantoompijn. Ook binnen de oeuvres van deze auteurs zeker de moeite waard. En de Da Vinci Code, ach... Ok, alle karakters zijn zwart-wit, het liefdesverhaaltje is belachelijk, voorbij de helft verzandt het steeds meer in rennen van de ene plek naar de ...

... are expected to admire. I nth Gone with the Wind not only is Scarlet irritating but she's also incredibly stupid. the Da Vinci Code do what I did, read the beginning and end of each chapter, then you can find out what happens without having to read his terrible prose. The History Ma ...

The Da Vinci Code. How, oh, how does anyone think this is a good book? Absolute garbage.

... and have encountered several customers who are all up in arms about Harry Potter or The Golden Compass or Twilight or The Da Vinci Code, and I've always wanted to ask them why, if their beliefs are strong and they've raised their children in those beliefs, they are so worried about a book. ...

... shelves at my local Powell's, so I'm not sure what all is out there to be read. So far, I either have read or merely own The Code Book by Simon Singh, Battle of Wits by Stephen Budiansky, Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F.H. Hinsley, and Enigma by Hugh Sebag-Montefior ...

... would change just about every time I opened and/or refreshed the page. (And I need it to change because someone has tagged The Da Vinci Code as historical fiction, and it's driving me crazy!)

#54 - There is that. :-D #55/56 - I was wondering the same thing. #58 - The Da Vinci Code? Also, I gave up on Darkmans very quickly, please tell me why fear of salad - it sounds like my husband and now I need to know.

... Books that aren't necessarily awful wastes to EVERYONE, but are to me include: State of Fear by Michael Crichton; The Davinci Code by Dan Brown; mostly anything by Sara Douglass, even though I started off enjoying her stuff... just that they kept eating away at me and making me ...

Not bad for a devil's advocate, WHL. I'm not going to read The Da Vinci Code, but I am also not on the bandwagon condemning it. Robert

An original New York Times review of The Da Vinci Code, before it became infamous, said something like it is a fast paced and intelligent thriller. I reckon it is cheesy as I said above and will not try to deny it, but, if I had read it when it came out, I bet I would have enjoyed the reading. ...

30> Although I agree with the principle of fiction revealing truth, I think even cheesy fiction, as The DaVinci Code, has some truth to it, especially about religious obsession in this case (I speak from having seen the movie, not from having read the book), I also believe that literature ...

... of fiction, particularly popular fiction, for me. Or when the book is full of historical inaccuracies (I would have to say The DaVinci Code qualifies in that category) or anachronisms. The other thing I find unreadable is metaphors or similes that are so tortured that figuring them out ...

... you're going to call what he did plagiarism, then a lot of historical fiction would bite the dust. I just objected to The DaVinci Code because I thought it was absolutely awful - badly written, dreadful storyline (the ending of which I'd worked out halfway through - unlike the incredibly ...

... fiction out there if people weren't allowed to use others' research for it. Quite aside from that, having read both The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail and others of Baigent's works, I have to say that they're really not that similar. Brown's work includes a lot of things B ...

I don't think of the time I took to read The Da Vinci Code as wasted because it took all of 45 minutes to read the thing.

... outside the claustrophobia and anxiety of frequent travellers. I suspect I would have a similar reaction if I read The Da Vinci Code which has neither the sheer gonzo outrageousness of The Illuminatus! Trilogy or the detailed scholarship of Foucault's Pendulum. (Or at least so I've ...

... the discussion no one could remember why we voted to read it in the first place. I agree with mckait - I found that The Da Vinci Code was middle of the road, I didn't love it but I didn't hate it. I also feel that way about The great gatsby but I think that's only because I had to read ...

I second the DaVinci Code and throw in Angels & Demons. I think I just dislike Dan Brown and his snide condescending characters in general.

The DaVinci Code - god, that missing time that will never come back to me spent reading utter tripe..... I weep!

... re-read, and I enjoyed it just as much the second time. The story is comprised of two time lines - 1790 and 1972. It's like The Da Vinci code but more entertaining.

... movies, the colours and layout is important the plot almost secondary. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows and Da Vinci Code are more action thrillers, get the heart pumping, music blaring and we race away. The language is simpler and there is a straightforwardness to the plot. Ok ...

... a hefty book. I read it in a week. The only other time I've read this fast was when I finished off Dan Brown's book The da Vinci Code and was dine 3 nights later. What goes into making a book a 'fast read'?

... Jane Smiley (1991) 94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001) 95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998) 96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003) 97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992) 98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988) 99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995) 1 ...

... medieval mystery book and Foucault's Pendulum was the first of the ancient secret society type books, the forerunner of The Da Vinci code, but I'll tell you, once you read Foucault's Pendulum, you'll think that Dan Brown was writing for grade schoolers compared to Eco. Oh, I almost ...

... Piers Anthony, or Danielle Steel. I've never read any Dan Brown and probably never will (unless I someday decide to read The DaVinci Code for the sake of the puzzle-geekery).

... all died miserable deaths, Diary was utterly stupid, even though there was a gem of a good idea behind it. I thought The DaVinci Code was a decent mystery novel, but simply could not understand all the hype around it. Everyone in my book club loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in ...

... by Noah Charney. Not worth your time. I started off liking the book as it was very reminiscent of Angels and Demons/Da Vinci Code/The Thomas Crown Affair movie. It seemed clever at first but sadly the whole thing began to go down hill. The writer would go off on these tangents giving you ...

... own mindless fun. (although I prefer when people realize that's what it is.) Oh how very true! I read and enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. It was a fun story. Twilight is definitely the most fluffy book I've ever read. I enjoyed it while reading it and it's fun to talk about, as most ...

I enjoy Maeve Binchy on occasion, too. I think the reason why The Da Vinci code gets so much flack is not because of the book itself but because of the idiot fans. You know...the ones who think it's REALLY TRUE. I like Tanya Huff's Blood series and Smoke trilogy (I specifically ...

I agree that The Da Vinci Code was a fun read, and I'm not ashamed of that. Who cares what others think about what I read - I certainly don't! I like Maeve Binchy's books too, and I have no idea what reputation she has (whether she qualifies as fluff or not), but the one's I've read are ...

My list is a mile long, but I'd really like to start with one that everyone loves to hate, The Da Vinci Code. Why does this book get so much flak? It doesn't pretend to be anything but what it is, good fun. What are some of yours?

I just didn't get what the fuss was about over Davinci Code, Wicked, The Historian and Eat, Pray, Love. I've found a lot of my favorites listed here so you never can tell!

I just didn't get what the fuss was about over Davinci Code, Wicked, The Historian and Eat, Pray, Love. I've found a lot of my favorites listed here so you never can tell!

... ince 14 - The Hobbit 13 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 13 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 13 - The Da Vinci Code 12 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 12 - Harry Potter and the Prince of Azkaban 10 - Jane Eyre 10 - Little Women 10 - The Golden Compas ...

No one hates any Ian McEwan? Leaving aside The DaVinci Code which I would never have picked up had it not been so mind boggling popular, my worst book that I've finished has got to be Saturday by Ian McEwan. I've been underwhelmed by plenty of books I thought I'd like, but this one ...

... on a remainder table a while back, but haven't found time to read it. Browsed Freakonomics, The World is Flat, and The Da Vinci Code to see what all of the buzz was about, but none of them passed the 50-page test. Actually, Da Vinci Code was so bad, it didn't pass the 10-page test!

I have read Five people you meet in Heaven read and owned but bookmooched away Da Vinci Code - read and owned Tuesdays with Morrie - own and have read - I really like this book. A child called it - read but don't own - I also enjoyed this book. Secret Life of bees - read and ...

I have read books from some of the lists Gilead Da Vinci Code Freaknomics

#81 I didn't say biblical, that was suge, I said religious narative, which it is. and I liked the Da Vinci Code, not enough to read it again, but I didn't dislike it.

The DaVinci Code bored me to tears. I figured it would be more interesting to someone who was religious. #81 bib: Thanks. #84 Mar: I'll probably get to it in one of the lit classes I'll have to take someday. :)

... manifesto or not. (I actually rarely have a problem with these kinds of books anyway, I thought the controversy over Da Vinci Code was stupid, we should have concentrated more on how unfortunate it was that he was such a bad writer!

... for your consideration. Okay, so, fyrefly98, The Darwin Conspiracy has to be an improvement on The DaVinci Code, right? I look forward to reading about it. For me, preferably a book that hasn't got a "date read" entry, but it can be anything I haven't reviewed, ...

... best way to ensure its popularity. Even the HP series benefited from this phenomenon somewhat, and I'm convinced that The DaVinci Code's runaway popularity can be also be attributed partially to the number of people who condemned it. - Harry continues to be an idiot. (I think this was ...

... based book myself, Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell. The best way to describe it is to think of The daVinci Code replace Robert Langon (expert symboligist) with Kate Stanley (expert in the more obscure Shakerpearen lore) and bam you've got quite the similar book.

... large libraries, but under Most commonly shared books (weighted) the statistic is "None." Not even 1984, the DaVinci Code or the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! I think this may account for the variety of answers in the gaylenevergail in Awful Lit. : What is the most offensive book you got through? (Abr 18, 2008, 2:40pm)

I too hated The Da Vinci Code for the same reasons as you, but ALSO because it was so clearly written to be turned into a movie! There was no respect for the written work - I only got through 3 chapters because each one ended with such a cacaphony of cliffhanger-ish crap that I couldn't stand it!

It seems like Da Vinci Code tops almost everyone's list. I don't know if I'd read it if I were alone with it on a desert island! But where do these strong feelings come from?

Now that I think of it, The Da Vinci Code was pretty offensive. The religion part didn't bother me, but all the historical inaccuracies did . . . and I'd be more likely to shrug them off if the book didn't open with the statement that "it's all TRUE!!" Give. Me. A. Break. Oh, and bother to ...

... random books: GoF Storm of Swords The Wind in the Willows God, the Devil, and Harry Potter 1st to Die Da Vinci Code the Island by Victoria Hislop

... and kind of enjoyed the page-turner aspect of it, but in the end I thought it was so silly that I didn't bother to read The Da Vinci Code.

... and well defended argument. I read Freakonomics and the two Dan Brown books a couple years. My family listened to The DaVinci Code on a car trip more recently, and I will say that book doesn't hold up on rereading.

Although I'm a Catholic, the negative portrayal of of the Catholic Church in The Da Vinci Code didn't bother me ~ after all, it's fiction. The reason I loathed the book is that the writing was execrable.

The Da Vinci Code as a book was quite a bit better than the movie. Towards the ed of the book, when Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland comes into play, the description of it in the book and the pictures I found on the web were more enticing than then what we saw in the movie. I would actually like to ...

... - 17% To Kill a Mockingbird - 13% Lord of the Rings - 9% Catcher in the Rye - 7% Gone with the Wind - 5% The Da Vinci Code - 5% The Stand - 4% Angels and Demons - 3% Atlas Shrugged - 3%

... Democrats and Independents, the top two books are the same -- the Bible followed by "Gone With the Wind." Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger rounded ...

But the top six books catalogued on here are 6 of the Harry Potters, followed by the Da Vinci code then The hobbit, then 1984 and the tenth is the seventh harry potter. Would it really be that different if LT users were polled? But then again the second ten are a bit more literary.

I swear, that copy of The Da Vinci Code is in my library only because it was given to me free for a book club I used to belong to at my job, and I just can't seem to bring myself to throw away any book, even one as dreadful as that one. :)

... (13) Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by JK. Rowling (12) The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (12) The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown (11) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (11) The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (11) Little Women by Louisa May ...

... Tomasz has recommended all sorts of stuff to me that I'd never have discovered on my own. And #106 - the idea that The Da Vinci Code would be shelved anywhere other than fiction is nothing short of frightening!

... one copy in humor and the problem remains. Also how frustrating would it be to go to the bookstore employee and ask for The Da Vinci Code and have the employee say that it can be found in either the fiction, history, religion or art sections? For that matter, how frustrating would it be to ...

Harry Potter series, Celestine Prophecy, and Da Vinci Code.

... of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka 1,485 copies 4. The Sounds of Laughter, Peter Kay 114 copies 5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown 21,610 copies 6. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown 12,060 copies 7. I Know You got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson 127 copies 8. The Undome ...

We could read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It's just as terrible as The Davinci Code by a little less read.

... computers on desks. Those are still off limits. These are touchscreen things.) As for bristling when someone recommends The Da Vinci Code, just remember, everyone likes something different. My experience is that most bookstore employees really like to read and know their stuff. But everyone's ...

... We're talking serious trauma. I had vowed never to read anything else by Mr. Brown after being previously traumatized by The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons* but one can only read a menu of poorly-translated Thai so many times. Shudder. I feel the bile a-rising. *I know that many ...

This is about the only way I'm going to read The DaVinci Code.

... Sky and enjoyed it, I plan to read the other Stross titles in your list. I don't care what anyone says, I enjoyed The Da Vinci code and I'm not ashamed to admit it. a fire upon the deep is great stuff. Oh, too much there to go through one by one!

... I put in my inventory are like that too. I seriously doubt that anyone from abroad will give three points for my copy of The Da Vinci Code when they can have it for one point from someone in the US. And there just aren't that many Swiss moochers, or they'd prefer German books. Two of the ...

... ejj1955 I bought the Dune series in one book, so I'm set to read the complete series. Can't wait. Also I really liked The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown so Angels & Demons will be braincandy. After Dune and before Angels & Demons in, I'm going to read the Farseer trilogy. But first let ...

I read 15 pages of The DaVinci Code and put it down. It's not so much that I don't like specific books that others like I just have unusual tastes. My reading is 80% non-fiction. I have always been interested in history and that is what I like to read. I read more to learn than to be ...

I just finished The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry which is more like what I expected The Da Vinci Code to be. Before that, I read Signs in the Blood by Vicki Lane. Set in NC and very well written, I enjoyed it more than any book I've read in awhile.

...seen the Northern Lights. ...read Da Vinci Code. ...danced with dolphins. ...seen a whale. (in the wild) ...been to Europe, Asia, or South America. ...tamed my raging math-phobia.

... out so no other person would have to read that crap and feel similarly soiled by it. The thing that most struck me about The Da Vinci Code was the complete lack of character development. I didn't hate it--kept turning the pages to see what happened, which is the least I expect from a book--bu ...

Well, I liked The Da Vinci Code (hated the movie). Totally avoid anything that looks like a The Da Vinci code knockoff. Ancient texts, clues spread all over the world, secret organization trying to preserve their power, strange murders that only make sense about 300 pages in, etc. I also ...

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Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Wasn't too fond of Angels and Demons or The DaVinci Code, but DF is much, much worse than either of those two.

... Thinking was #6 in 1952, and # 2 in 1953, and 1954, and 1955. That's quite a run. Right up there with Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and The Five People you Meet in heaven. Has Mitch Albom replaced Peale in the popular spirituality market?

I greatly enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude. On the other hand, I thought The Da Vinci Code was utterly dumb, and I have never read anything else by Dan Brown. All the puzzle inside a puzzle inside a puzzle stuff became very boring and repetitive and silly.

>26: It has to do with how common a book is. If you and I share, say, The Da Vinci Code, because it's so common, it doesn't count as much as say, Deer Hunting with Jesus would.

... written earlier so I decided to try The Jungle first. In my opinion Angels and Demons is a much better book than Davinci Code. There was more suspense and intrigue in A&D and though I liked Davinci codewell enough, I found that it was just a rehashing of A&D. The situations were ...

#9 No, I know I'm in the minority. I have no problem with that. I hated this book, and I hated The Da Vinci Code. But a lot of people loved them, and I hope they enjoyed them. As long as they don't make me read them again.

... ki? Pride and Prejudice by Albert Camus? Gone With the Wind by James Baldwin? The Iliad by Emily Dickinson? The Da Vinci Code by Franz Kafka?

... Feel free to repeat titles or authors. Just don't repeat the combinations! Cyrano de Bergerac by PG Wodehouse? The Da Vinci Code by Thomas Pynchon? Queen of the Tambourine by Lynd Ward? Cards on the Table by

#6 cat: Thanks! :) #7 Mar: I read The DaVinci Code, but unfortunatly I'm not one of the people who can recommend it. Maybe it's just because I'm not religious that I didn't like it. Eragon is in my TBR. I was actually reading it when Twilight arrived, and put it down because of ...

#5 Sorry K, I ran off to yoga and dance rehearsal. The top 5 I haven't read are: 11 The Davinci Code 13 Eragon 17 Angels and Demons 18 Eldest 24 Twilight

... Patricia Cornwell 1,158 copies 9. The Rule of Four , Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason 2,817 copies 10. The Da Vinci Code : Special Illustrated Collector's Edition, Dan Brown lumped in with #1 above 11. I Am Charlotte Simmons , Tom Wolfe 1,379 copies 12. Night ...

This is wikipedi's list of 2003 Bestseller novels from Publishers Weekly: 1. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 3. The King of Torts by John Grisham 4. Bleachers by John Grisham 5. Armageddon by Jerry B. Jen ...

I loved Flanders Panel, which I read after Davinci code so can't say that i had the same reaction as you. Although I enjoyed Flander's so much more. Loved the dual mysteries and the history of chess. Fell in love with Perez-Reverte because of this book. Here is my line: The first ...

... it, but didn't read it myself. I read Angels and Demons and thought it was dopey, so I didn't bother to read or see The Da Vinci Code. The Great Fire is on my list to read some time, since I really like the way Shirley Hazzard writes, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

... read any of them yet. Another Louis Bayard book, The Pale Blue Eye was a book club book, but I couldn't get into it. Da Vinci Code never appealed to me. Nor did the movie.

A friend brought me the Da Vinci Code when I was laid up in the hospital. I read up to the self-flagellating albino part and was so disgusted at how trite and badly written it was I just couldn't go on. You do have to admire his ability to make money.

The top nine of 2003 according to Peoples Magazine. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 20,232 copies on LT Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Norton) 1,163 copies The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage) 10,381 copies ...

... mysteries, since it is fairly easy to find ones that are poorly written, but still have an intriguing storyline (*cough*Da Vinci Code*cough*).

... last - most of the prints out there are rough at best). ps....I hate The Matrix - it's the sf movie equivalent of The Da Vinci Code; a big dumb film pretending to be clever.

... it was an intriguing plot all but ruined by James' self-indulgent, lethargic prose style. It almost makes me want to read The DaVinci Code just for a remedy... (slaps self back to senses) Next up is Demian by Hermann Hesse after my finals. I can't wait.

I am willing to admit that I didn't enjoy reading Da Vinci Code.

I read Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and Deception Point and I swear the man wrote the same book all three times!!!

#57 dihiba: Huh. I wonder, did you read The Davinci Code first? If so, maybe that's it, since I read Angels and Demons first, and they are similar in a lot of ways, so maybe whichever comes second is just too much like the first read? Anyway, I didn't even bother with the movie because I ...

Funny, I got through The Da Vinci Code but couldn't get into Angels and Demons - but most people seem to think it's the better book. They really aren't the kind of books that normally appeal anyway - but I felt I had to read Code... and I was working in a bookstore at the time and the whole ...

... you ever do find yourself just itching to read a Dan Brown book, I suggest that you make it Angels and Demons instead of The Davinci Code - the former is a much better read IMHO.

I still haven't read The DaVinci Code--and I doubt that I ever will.

... book that can and should be ignored (Atwood's The Edible Woman) 3 - Written well enough, but why? (Dan Brown's DaVinci Code) 4 - Neither memorable nor a waste of time (Murakami's After Dark) 5 - Well written, fun, not very filling and easily forgotten (Gabriel Garcia Marque ...

Yeah -- I wasn't too fond of Angels and Demons; I liked DaVinci Code better -- until they got back to London and Brown wimped out (at least for a former freemason, it seemed like a wimp-out!

Hmm...being a theology student it was hard for me to carry around the Da Vinci Code. Some of the more conservative students looked at me like I was a traitor to the faith or a heretic. Although it did start some good discussions and debates. Also reading Helter Skelter in high school, ...

... target="_blank">blog post where I'd confessed to books I'm hesitant to carry: Uncle Tom's Cabin (inflammatory), The DaVinci Code (pedestrian), and anything lately by Mary Higgins Clark (simplistic). LT's diversity of books and opinions makes me wonder: What books are you ...

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane The Da Vinci code : a novel by Dan Brown Rival crock-pot cooking by Marilyn Neill Human croquet by Kate Atkinson The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen Hometown killer by Carol J. Rothgeb The fourth hand by John Irving Married to ...

... Hemingway (don't like, but recognize his genius), Twain, Poe, Heinlein or Sayers. But I don't think that my opinions on The Da Vinci Code or the Harry Potter books matter one way or the other to my readers, and I'm not sure that I should have to define my dislikes in order to clarify my ...

... read it. I got rid of the book, but I listed it in my catalog so I could give it the 1/2* rating it so richly deserves. The DaVinci Code would also qualify for 1/2*, but I rejected it in the bookstore, and see no reason to clutter my catalog with it. If I see a 4 or 5 star rating from ...

... read it. I got rid of the book, but I listed it in my catalog so I could give it the 1/2* rating it so richly deserves. The DaVinci Code would also qualify for 1/2*, but I rejected it in the bookstore, and see no reason to clutter my catalog with it. If I see a 4 or 5 star rating from ...

I find it interesting how much hype affects how much I like a book or movie. I read Da Vinci Code before I had heard much about it and I really enjoyed it. I don't know that I would have if I had read it after all the uproar. Another example I can think of is the movie Titanic. I saw it after ...

12. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown = 489 pages. I've listened to a Audio book of this, but I believe it was abridged, and I wanted to read the whole book anyways. Still working on #11. Finished 1/15/08

the da vinci code is actually the sequal of angels and demons, not everyone knows that.

I liked both books, but nothing about The name of the Rose came into my head while reading The Da Vinci Code. I think that Eco caught the sense of religion better than Brown. I also liked the challenge of trying to translate the medieval Latin found in the NOtR, but realizing my classical Lati ...

Uh, Tim, did you mean read 600 reviews of The Da Vinci Code?

... War - Joe Bageant 46. Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life And Tragic Death Of Louisiana's Cajun Coast - Mike Tidwell 47. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown 48. The I Hate Anne Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity Reader - Clint Willis

... Albert Finney who was in A Good Year with Russell Crowe who was in Master and Commander with Paul Bettany who was in The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon

... Zahn 4. Iron Man by Peter David 5. The Incredible Hulk by Peter David 6. A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card 7. D.A. by Connie Willis 8. Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling 8 Non-Fiction DONE!! 1. The Know-it-All by A.J. Jacobs 2. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ...

... I don't see how the fact that some people are more sensitive than others will ruin it for everyone. If one review of The Da Vinci Code had only been marked as a spoiler once or twice, while another had been marked as a spoiler fifty times, I think it's clear that one of them isn't really ...

... lier 5. Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor and CHarlie Borman 6. The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracey Chavalier 7. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown 8. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Peter Hedges 9. Drowning Ruth} - Christina Schwartz 10. Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitch ...

Cell and The Mist by Stephen King Angels and Demons and DaVinci code by Dan Brown Evangelical Theology by Karl Barth The Five books of Moses by everett fox Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

So what did you get for Christmas as far as books go. I got the following ones: Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code by Dan Brown Cell and Mist from Stephen King The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox Evangelical Theology by Karl Barth Shadow of the Giant by OS Card Or any book ...

... the Special Sauce recommendations for fiction, I basically get a list of the most popular works here (it starts with the Da Vinci Code and then the Hobbit - you get the drift). When I click on Why?, most of the recommendations say it's because I own Talking from 9 to 5. It does ...

... will read again Two books that I haven't cataloged yet, and will get the only 1 and .5 stars I'll have only given. The Da Vinci Code - .5 Stars The Name of the Rose - 1 Star The Da Vinci Code I just couldn't finish and when I got the movie from Netflix I fell asleep shortly after ...

... good if you enjoy other Dan Brown work. I'm finding this one slightly over-the-top but it's holding my attention. I read The Da Vinci Code at the beginning of the month. Enjoy!

... They think I've abandoned my own faith just because I've read the books. To me it's the same thing as all the hoopla over The Davinci Code. You just have to read the book knowing that it is fiction and it is written with the author's beliefs behind the plot, not your own. Read what you want ...

I agree - found this book at a $1.00 bargain sale and fell in love with it. I was just off my The Da Vinci Code high and wanted more art historical fiction. This was absolutely perfect because it involved a lot more about the physical makeup of the artwork and the iconography more than ...

... Keith Ablow 26. Mystic River Dennis Lehane 27. Psychopath Keith Ablow 28. Everything She Ever Wanted Ann Rule 29. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 30. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt Anne Rice Fiction=27 Non-Fiction= 3 Total= 30

I do agree that The DaVinci Code was poorly written. I could not get connected with the characters at all. I felt like I was reading an encyclopedia for The Last Supper and The Holy Grail. Blah!

... it dragged a bit. I disagree. It was very good and kept me turning pages quickly throughout. It reminded me a bit of The Da Vinci Code only with the writer actually having literary skills. The last few pages of story wrap up did feel a bit rushed, but overall a solid mystery novel and a ...

Finished the Da Vinci Code last night and started Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt today. I'm only in it by the first chapter but enjoying it so far.

29. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (***.5) The book had an excellent storyline to it and the coding and trekking to find The Holy Grail was quite intriguing, but I was not able to fully connect with the characters and feel what they were feeling. Also, the jump in narration was just a bit ...

I see a "new" genre of publication. There were all the anti-Harry Potter books. There were all the anti-Da Vinci Code books. Next there will be all the anti-Golden Compass books Why not anti-Richard Dawkins God Delusion books Should be for some "fun" reading.

... the Holy Grail died in London on November 21 at age 64. He gained fame for his lawsuit against Random House challenging The Da Vinci Code.

... enjoyable novel. In terms of international thriller with occult/esoteric elements, I'd say it lies somewhere between The da Vinci code and Foucault's Pendulum. (Personal opinion may determine which represent the lower and upper ends of that spectrum.) Could have used a little more Drac ...

Still reading the hobbit. btw #4 hope you enjoy the davinci code. Despite what may be said about its author and historicity of the content, I enjoyed it as a good read. Good luck

... outside the Temple Church. The rough-hewn stone shimmered in the rain, and doves cooed in the architecture overhead. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Deep in the heart of the Grand Gallery blinked a tiny red dot. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

I finished Everything She Ever Wanted and started The Da Vinci Code and I'm enjoying it so far. My next few reads are: 1. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt 2. Fault Lines 3. The Short Forever and 4. Blood Red roses I'm hoping to get #1 & #2 done before New Years.

Starting on The Da Vinci Code today after finishing Everything She Ever Wanted. That book was great and fascinating. What an evil woman.

The Da Vinci Code. Started that today after finishing Everything She Ever Wanted. Great book. Really enjoyed that one. Had to skip the one I was going to read next because Brown's book was leant to me.

... were hearing and smell what they were smelling. I have highly recommended both of these books to friends and family. Now-The Da Vinci Code is another story. I put off reading it forever but finally had to see what all uproar was about. What a waste of time!

Just finished up Everything She Ever Wanted and instead of starting on Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt, I'm starting on The Da Vinci Code because someone leant the book to me. I've heard so many bad reviews of it from people here that I have to check it out for myself. How ironic, huh?

... never have made it through Howl's moving castle, at least not far enough to actually get to Howl. Glad I did though. The DaVinci Code. Caddie Woodlawn. Les Miserables- I really, really, really tried on Les Mis, because I had a friend who lived for it, and we both loved the musical. But ...

Bit of a change in my TBRN line-up. Had a co-worker lend me a copy of The Da Vinci Code so that will be next after I finish up Everything She Ever Wanted. I know I have heard a lot of negative reviews about Dan Brown, but I just want to experience it for myself. I'm thouroughly enjoying ...

The Da Vinci Code sparked a renewed interest in the origins of the New Testament, unfortunately based on a lot of misinformation. This misinformation has by some (too many, and maybe a lot) been taken to be the historical truth.

... over on facebook.com). Which is a sensible way to protest rather than trying to get the thing shut down entirely. Like The DaVinci Code and Left Behind series, I'm not too interested in "Compass," but feel compelled to read just to know what the hooplah is about.

... not interested in his fantasies, though ;-). Congratulations on the baby! How old is he/she? Oh, and I haven't read The Da Vinci Code, and I don't plan to. I hate conpsiracy theories, and he seems like such a bad writer.

... and Demons. This came out in 2000, and was not a bestseller in any week of that year. But it became a big seller after The Da Vinci Code was published a couple of years later. It is ranked 21st in LT and hmore owned than iany of the official Year 2000 best sellers. There was only one ...

... others listen to academic lectures for five hours! I'm a grad student and that might cause me to jump out of the car :). Da Vinci code is good on Audio I second Harry Potter by Jim Dale, its great.

... very worthwhile reflections for me, and even tickled my funny bone a bit. I always enjoy offbeat comparisons. I did read The Da Vinci Code, because my husband brought it home - he's the reason I ever read any thrillers at all. Brown lost a good deal of my respect in an early chapter after he ...

... issue here, beyond questions of literary merit, regarding the connection between people and the printed word. I know The Da Vinci Code draws heavily on Holy Blood, Holy Grail a book I read when I was younger, and I can certainly identify with the feeling of "Wow, this would make a much ...

>29 Does The Code Book get into cryptography at the algorithmic level? I am working semi-seriously on an encryption/authentication scheme for a CGI app; I always like to know how things work down in the guts of the libraries I'm using. Do you think this book is rigorous enough that I'd get ...

... ielding In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Cross About a Boy by Nick Hornby The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Readings on Heart of Darkness by Clarice Swisher Too Cute Crochet for Babies & Toddlersby ...

... seem to be a lot of 'gnostic' or 'hidden gospel' books on the shelves at the moment. Some of them riding on the back of The Da Vinci Code although many others were present before, so that book could be taken as a sympton of the interest in these aspects of religion. Conspiracy theory often ...

... between art and commerce. For every J.K. Rowling, there's probably a Dan Brown. And I could even be wrong about The Da Vinci Code. Perhaps Brown just wrote the sort of book he imagined he would like to read and happened to have tastes similar enough to millions of people. (I'm not ...

... Good Pig 646 Sewing, Clothing, Personal Living - They Call Me Naughty Lola 652 Processes of Written Communication - The Code Book 658 General Management - The Long Tail 781 General Principles and Musical Forms - Love is a Mix Tape 786 Keyboard and Other Instruments - Chopin's Fune ...

I bought the following today: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Fire Lover by Joseph Wambaugh The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver The Shark Net by Robert Drewe

... I suppose) and it breaks my heart. Anyway, I can really only think of two books I hated that everyone seems to love - The Da Vinci Code which has been mentioned a few times already, so I won't elaborate on that one. But another well-adored book that I found awful was Saturday by Ian McE ...

The Davinci Code

... series and agatha christie novel, as well as heaps of comic fantasy. However, Dan Brown is an awful writer. I read The Da Vinci code and although I was hooked on the plot, the writing was really poor. Then I found out that his other books are pretty much the same plots but with names/pla ...

... has already proved to be successes, eg. buying the rights to translate books that already has had success elsewhere (think The Da Vinci code here...).

... (759 pages) 25) The Skystone by Jack Whyte (489 pages) 26) Almost a Miracle by John Ferling (575 pages) 27) The Code Book by Simon Singh (350 pages) 28) Green Rider by Kristen Britain (471 pages) 29) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (244 pages) 30) First Rider' ...

I'm glad you admitted to that, mackan, because I couldn't help enjoying The Da Vinci Code. It was so much fun trying to solve the puzzles before the solution came up a couple of pages later. I have to say I didn't enjoy Digital Fortress so much. The terrible writing and total predictability ...

... a Renaissance tale of passion and blood, a hidden crypt and a secret worth dying to protect... Review: Dubbed “The Da Vinci Code for people with brains,” the back cover screamed a promise that wasn’t really, in my opinion, kept. Yes, it was an interesting story, but much of the ...

... It's rather mysterious yet rather down-to-earth and realistic in a way that Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code were perhaps lacking a little. It's also set in England, which makes rather a refreshing change for this kind of thing. There's a lot of intrigue, ...

... reeling and at the mercy of a seemingly invincible enemy. Review: Although not quite so well-known or talked-about as The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons is now more widely publicised along with the rest of the Brown back-catalogue - and rightly so. Angels and Demons, like The Da V ...

... assumptions and dialogue. Once again, the lead female character, Susan, could have been lifted directly out of either The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons, except that this time she’s American rather than European: She’s frighteningly intelligent, fiercely loyal, extremely capable ...

Of course The Da Vinci Code's not a classic. If it were, we'd all have to hang ourselves. Besides, a classic has to "withstand the test of time." If anyone remembers that piece of drivel in ten years, let alone one hundred, I'll... well, like I said. We'll all have to hang ourselves.

... a book, the message stays with you longer and more thought has to be applied. (The reason my father allowed me to watch the daVinci Code but not to read it.) 35: The reading of something increases the thought applied and opens up new possibilities of thought on the subject. (In most cases, ...

... children's classics over time. I guess we'll see in 50 years, if we're still around. The book that I just do NOT get is The DaVinci Code. I dropped out of a book club because they wanted to discuss the book as a work not only of serious literature but as a work of actual history. I confess ...

... Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 34. Good Women of China by Xinran 35. Castle in the Air by Diana Jones 36. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 37. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner 38. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 39. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kin ...

The bestseller books on LT like The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have their various translated versions combined without much argument. And this is where the thinking starts about the sameness of the work regardless of the language it is sold in. I agree with ...

I enjoyed Angels and Demons also. I liked it better than the Da Vinci Code. Then, I did a tagmash on Rome, novel and among all the books about ancient Rome, a book came up with one that I remember from my high school days: The marble faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne; a story of ...

... Once again, Dan Brown can be a nice companion for a visitor - there is a lot of Parisian detail as well as suspense in The DaVinci Code, although the writing is not top-notch. The Hunchback of the Notre Dame, of course, and the comic books of Tardi, especially Le Cri du Peuple ...

... the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is a satire. And finally, Canterbury ...

... of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is a satire. And finally, Canterbur ...

... and trite and irritating. I've never read Dan Brown, although a roommate of mine who enjoyed both Angels and Demons and The DaVinici Code had an arrangement with me that if I read fifty pages into The DaVinci Code, (after which he thought I would get into it) he would read fifty pages into ...

#2 You are so right about Tom Hanks in Da Vinci Code but he would be perfect as A. Leon Spaceman in Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine!

... Just like Amazon LibraryThing gives book tips. Thus is possible to see what are the favourite books of people who have read The Da Vinci Code, or who are interested in books concerning the same subjects. The site also gives suggestions concerning books which would fit well in your own collection. ...

The Concert The British Museum is Falling Down To the Hermitage The Museum Guard The Da Vinci Code * *Leonardo was certainly cultured, whatever you may think of the book! ;-)

Impressionist Women by Edward Lucie-Smith The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet:Theory and Technique by Cyril W. Beaumont Degas: Dancers by Claude Roger-Marx The Infinity Concerto by Greg Bear

Well, my wife read all the previous Dan Brown books prior to The Da Vinci Code, but I could only read Angels and Demons which I thought was better than the Da Vinci Code, but couldn't drum up an interest in Deception Point or Digital Fortress. I guess the author I read all the way ...

... about half of my books are shared by 100 or less. As for the most shared, discounting the Harry Potter books and the Da Vinci Code, then it's the Hobbit, the Great Gatsby and the LOTR books... then we get some more interesting ones the Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime ...

... Paradise and had to drag myself through Beloved. Someone out there, tell me why I should give Beloved another go! Da Vinci Code? Blech. Sure the ideas are interesting, but the writing style and character development leave much to be desired. I was very disappointed when I read The ...

... a new author, I select the most popular of his/her books. But I think my brother shares your views. He refused to read The Da Vinci Code because of the "hype." I told him I thought it an entertaining action/adventure book worth reading, whether or not you buy into the premise. I do not ...

3. The DaVinci Cook by JoAnne Pence. A little mystery in a series about Angie Amalfi, a cook who wants to make her career something to do with food, but not actually being a chef. She tries different things, but always runs into a homicide which she has to solve. A little bit of fluff, ...

After I read The Da Vinci Code, I definiely wanted to read everything else Dan Brown has ever written. The same thing happened with James Patterson and Stephen King. However, when I read Interview with the Vampire, I was hooked on Anne Rice's work forever. I plowed through ...

... drivel, you know, little blonde children who write cute little stories and then skip down to a tumbly moss-covered wall. The Da Vinci Code's popularity makes me want to weep. How snobbish. But really, how can people be blind to the lame writing? And why does no one care that 'Da Vinci' wasn't ...

Oh, this is fun. philosophy, unread - Confessions. trash, mystery - The Da Vinci Code. banned, 20th c. - Lolita. (I predicted that last one exactly!)

... only make it a few pages before I fall asleep. At this rate it's going to take at least 15 years. Someone brought me The Da Vinci Code when I was in the hospital a few years ago to keep me entertained. I got as far as the self-flagellating albino before I said you've got to be kidding ...

... innocent young reporter who gets caught up in this murky undertaking totally by chance. It is slightly reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code, although the ancient "secrets" of THAT book were all fairly well-known to me when I read it. Violating one of my rules, Fasman told us, rather than ...

The problem is that Dan Brown and some scholars actually support and believe the 'facts' as presented in Da Vinci Code. The problem with the book and promotion was the ease with which Dan Brown was able to spook and confuse many Churches and Christians. He brought up a few historical and ...

... back-catalogue. All credit to you, jhowell, for making the effort. A tangential thought: what use are the 382 reviews of The da Vinci code currently available on LT? It's almost certainly quicker to read the book than to read all those reviews, analyse them, weigh up whether you trust the ...

... - and thus, we observe the graying of the genre. Yes, there are 40 million Harry Potter books in print, 10m copies of The Da Vinci Code. Yes, the most recent collection of Howard Waldrop was issued in an edition of 450. But the trick is to move the audience from A to B, not ...

... 4. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J.K. Rowling Popularity 4. 15587 copies. 99 reviews. Average rating 4.35. 5. The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown Popularity 7. 13960 copies. 371 reviews. Average rating 3.47. 6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Popularity 8. 12726 copies. 85 reviews. Av ...

... and Lies, by Jeanette Winterson Art Objects, by Jeanette Winterson The Matisse Stories, by A.S. Byatt The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown The Girl With the Botticelli Eyes, by Herbert Lieberman

... - they are generally short, and as such might take a whole second to scroll by? From Zeitgeist the most reviewd book is the Da Vinci Code with 380 odd reviews. Even this only takes a few minutes to persue. Most books have Less than 10 reviews or so. Yes, the review feature could be ...

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... of worsts. Also, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The Secret Life of Bees, and of course The Da Vinci Code.

... in part because it came out when all eyes were on Afghanistan, so it really touched a nerve. I would also argue against The Da Vinci Code because, while it's a lot of fun and it really took the world by storm, it's not well written, like Child_of_Light said. I think Stephen King's Dar ...

I would actually argue against the Da Vinci Code, as its really not in any way great literature, and, honestly, its poorly written. As far as ideas, it isn't that special either. There are dozens of books that make similar claims, and the only reason there is such a hoopla going around about it ...

The Da Vinci Code has an average LT rating of 3.47, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has 4.04, so I think Huck has a better rating. For some people, the problem with Huckleberry Finn was that it was required reading in high school or college. The books listed in Zeitgeist with the ...

... from newspapers. How and where will people get information about books? I have never tried to denigrate anyone's faith. The Da Vinci code, for example has a lot of readers and some may find it entertaining but I find it poorly written and specious. Just because 917 people gave it a five star ...

The Da Vinci Code and The Kite Runner. I don't care how fascinating the plot is, I expect the book to be well written and those two are not, in my opinion. One thing that really annoys me is when the author painstakingly describes EVERYTHING, especially feelings, and even takes the trouble ...

... isn't what I like. I do read books if everyone is talking about them because I want to be able to understand, like with The Da Vinci Code, but generally that doesn't happen, and I prefer to stick with what I know I like and expand with authors from that area. I'm not enough of a snob to ...

... heard of that one. If I hear about a book that's really popular and that a lot of people like, I'll go for it. I read The Da Vinci Code just because everyone was talking about it. But mostly, I just read whatever looks good in the bookstore. I don't depend on the media to search those ...

... just call an average) is highly influenced by the books that everyone has and which you also own, Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code. The median is a better attempt to see how uncommon your library (or how obscure to use the LT term). My numbers are 8/193. These lower numbers result ...

I was showing the LibraryThing to some folks - and I tried to get some suggestions based on the Da Vinci Code. However, LT gave me no suggestions. Perhaps there's a bug dealing with the most popular LT book?

... hackneyed, romantic crap (excusez le mot). Most of my American friends love them, most of my Dutch friends are unmoved. The Da Vinci Code: seems I'm not alone in this. Actually thought it was pretty funny, when you leave aside the terrible writing, because he uses just the right amount of "di ...

It would be a toss-up between The Da Vinci Code and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The first was so bad, I kept reading, just to get some more laughs. The second was just bad: hokey prose, bad dialog, annoying characters, more annoying sentiment, unbearably annoying philosophy. I ...

... my sophomore year I couldn't go back to simple. Anyone else experience this? Oh, and also: I thought I'd hate The Da Vince Code, but I actually liked it. It just seemed a little too easy for the subject matter. On the other hand, I LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVED Angels and Demons. For ...

The Da Vinci Code has overtaken The Hobbit. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I didn't think The Da Vinci Code was all that bad... ending was horrible, but I liked the adventure and treasure-hunting side to it xD I'm also 17 and obsessed with controversy too... I thought Angels and Demons was better. Eragon... meh :/ Murtagh is the only reason I read it xD As to ...

... know that I wouldn't like it myself, I just choose not to waste time or money on those books. Controversy made me read The Da Vinci Code. Bad idea!

I criticized The Da Vinci Code before and after I read it. Can't stand it.

... it, actually. To have some knowledge of it, yes, but to read it? Not necessarily. For instance, I will criticize Da Vinci Code and Eragon without having read them. But I have read about them - from a variety of sources, pro and con - and heard about them from people who liked ...

Completely agree with all the DaVinci Code votes. Talk about a TV movie plot. I'm going out on a limb and say Angela's Ashes. Day 1: my father got drunk and beat my mother Day 2: my father got drunk and beat my brother Day 3: my father got drunk and beat us all Definitely not my thing. ...

... on Herbert's book. You know how screenplay writer's can screw up a decent book e.g. Plant of the Apes (Pierre Boule), The Da Vinci Code, etc. I'll have to check out my local video rental place now . . .

... right back on the shelf. This approach has saved me from reading many of the truly awful titles listed here, including Da Vinci Code, Celestine Prophesy, Bonfire of the Vanities, etc. Unfortunately, a dear friend gave me a copy of Red Storm Rising, and then kept asking me what I ...

... an interesting question... Well, other than betting on people analyzing Harry Potter until the world ends... I'm thinking The Da Vinci Code, because there's so much TO analyze... Also, Speak, which I think is already required reading for some schools... Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wick ...

#7 Thalia: I, too, hate The Da Vinci Code. #17 Phlox72: I can't stand The Great Gatsby, either. #23 pandora22, #27 Bookmarque, #33 physik: Gasp! # 34 blackcat: Okay, I can't gasp at you 'cause I already knew how you felt about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. :) #40 ...

I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, it was not a great work but it was a (mostly) fast paced book of intrigue and puzzles to keep you wondering. I truely like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and it seems to be on the short end for a lot of people. I'm sure there are a couple others but ...

I listened to The Da Vinci Code audio book and also enjoyed it. I bought a copy of the paperback in case I decide to read it again in the future.

I thought I'd be a little different. Okay, a lot different. I see The Da Vinci Code trashed alot here on LT. Not only do I love it, I got the (*insert squee-fan-girl*) illustrated version in hardcover. I have to admit the movie was awful. I also see The Five People You Meet in Heaven ...

For me it's also The Alchemist. Pure drivel. The other is The Da Vinci Code. Yeah, I know, a lot of people here on LT also despise it and I don't really want to start another heated debate about it... But I have yet to meet a person in real life who hated it. A few people have admitted that ...

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... Please. Don't waste my time. More dreck. And I agree that Catcher in the rye is unworthy of notice. As for DaVinci Code, I haven't read it. Just not my cup of tea. But I loved one reviewer who said the novel was the 'heuristic equivalent of painting the Last Supper on velvet'. ...

... although more for the history and the view of the south of France than for the plot per se. While it's been compared to DaVinci Code, I found it to be more more similar to Katherine Neville's The Eight (which I loved). And, like many horror films, if the protagonist behaved rationally, ...

I am trudging through The Da Vinci Code, which for some reason I can't seem to get in to (I've been trying to finish it for months and I can easily knock a book of that length out over a weekend). I'm also reading Eldest, which I'm thoroughly enjoying, although not quite as much as I enjoyed E ...

... of the redwall books when i was younger. i enjoyed them, but i wouldn't have said they were anything special. read the da vinci code, and quite enjoyed, though it's kind of a guilty pleasure - many of my more literary friends make fun of me for it

... say I was that enthralled either because despite it being a thin book took me about a week to complete what I did read. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown I thought was readable but not great. Good story which I enjoyed, but his writing style is just really thin and amaturish. I can't ...

... if they strike a nerve with the public by bringing out a particular idea when the time is ripe for it. The central idea in The Da Vinci Code is so simple, it stands out in sharp relief, and stimulated a huge swath of the general public to read and talk about this one basic idea at the same time. ...

I'm kind of middle of the road on The Da Vinci Code. While I enjoyed it pretty well as a fast-paced thriller, I would by no means describe it as well written. There were too many things that felt contrived and I thought that the hype for it was way over-the-top. It was an entertaining read that ...

... being sloppily written and yet having an abiding impact particularly struck me. I'm thinking of the many reviews posted of The Da Vinci Code, another book that a lot of people (myself included) found badly written, but which has made a huge impact. People seem to either love it or despise it. Br ...

Yes I agree The Da Vinci Code was very good and SOOOO Much better than the movie!

... I would only call it a crime against books if she was using books that were rare, or the only copy or something. Stuff like the Da Vinci, etc, I don't really care if this is done. Try this with the first folio and you might find your head on a pike. Either way, books should be read and cherished, ...

#6 - Yup, actually adding up all the numbers (from the ratings graph) I get 27% for Half Blood Prince. And 34% for The Da Vinci Code.

Just like the Da Vinci Code the best way to debate these speculations is to debate it on historical terms. Any sort of theological speculation usually devolves into verbal sparring and nothing gets accomplished. The history is so implausible behind this new "discovery" that arguing on those ...

... to avoid Immanuel Kant like the plague! I've entered three books: Little Women, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and The Da Vinci Code - and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason comes up as the book I would least likely enjoy every single time! ;-)

I don't normally go for religious reading (let's DON'T count the side reading on which the Da Vinci Code sent me, 'kay?) but if you know Anne Rice only as "the vampire writer" I'd highly recommend picking up her Christ the Lord Out of Egypt. I got it when it came out in paperback. I think I ...

... Witchcraft $1.00 Magick In The West End $2.00 Craft of the Wild Witch $1.00 Foundations of Magic $1.00 The Da Vinci Code $3.00 Spellcraft for Teens $.50 Witchin' A Handbook for Teen Witches $1.00 Wiccan Warrior $1.00 The Practice of Witchcraft Today$1.00 The Son ...

I did a major change that will stick, namely making it faster if you give the exact title (eg., The Da Vinci Code). It still waits behind other requests, but the actual request is almost instantaneous. If the exact title isn't found, it does the guessing. The guessing takes time. But with more ...

... code is getting reworked daily! Popularity should not be swamping things, eg., Michael Innes, Michael Chrichton, Da Vinci Code, Da Vinci Decoded.

I picked up a used copy of The Da Vinci Code today at the bookstore. The audio book of this that I've been listening to and enjoying is due back at the library tomorrow so I wanted to be able to at least read the rest of the story since I won't be able to listen to it.

... Atwood 513 pages. The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice 1182 pages. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 569 pages. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 449 pages Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 476 pages. Emma by Jane Austen borderline big book 395 pages. One Hundred Y ...

... read so far is Christine, which might be a shameful fact to admit but I'm not sure. I also nominate Dan Brown, whose Da Vinci Code I found to be appalling. Last Christmas I lent my copy to a visiting pal during the course of a night of wine drinking and well, try as I might now I cannot ...

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown would definitely have to be up there. Badly written, poor predictable plot and downright silly. Oh, and White Teeth by Zadie Smith - another one of these vastly over-rated, en vogue books that will never stand the test of time.

... (from what I can tell, the leading woman seems to die in a lot of his books, but I may be wrong about that). Enjoyed the DaVinci Code the first time I read it. I tried to read it a second time, but since I knew what was going to happen I was actually paying attention to the writing, and ...

... significant than the things that everyone owns (e.g. it's more useful to know that you own an RPG book than that you own The Da Vinci Code). I've run into this quite a bit, and agree that the solution is to either exclude books for recommendations, or dismiss recommendations you're not ...

Dan Brown.I am ashamed to say I read the The Da Vinci Code shortly after publication and disliked it so much - and hated myself for finishing the wretched thing. Everytime I go on holiday I see people reading the book, and I have to stifle an urge to tell them not to waste their precious ...

For me I'd have to say Dan Brown. I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, and may well reread it, I enjoyed the movie and bought it, but I couldn't get myself to read any of his other books. They all just sounded too similar, like he only had one story to tell, but kept changing the details in order to ...

While I agree with you about the Da Vinci Code, it seems Brown only had one book to write and just wrote it multiple times. However, I would have to disagree with your opinion of Pullman. His Dark Materials is an amasing peice of fantasy. While I disagree with his extremist Atheist views, I ...

My only real problem with DaVinci Code was that it wasn't anywhere near as clever as everyone made it out to be. You mean DaVinci used mirror writing in his journals?!? Good thing a lifelong DaVinci scholar and the world's leading cryptologist were on hand, since the general public couldn't ...

... drivel. >381 and >382 I just ~KNOW~ I'm going to catch a lot of heat for this, but what the heck... I agree that The Da Vinci Code was no literary masterpiece, but you have to admit, it was a well researched piece of writing. Keep in mind -- IT IS A WORK OF FICTION. It's not ...

... made a travesty of Christianity and the life of Christ, but that he did it with such dreadful writing! THAT's what makes The Da Vinci Code so trashy (at least in my opinion).

... is back to the idea that they give the review a thumbs-up because they agree with the sentiments. I earlier mentioned the daVinci code there is an entire list on the Zeitgeist : Books "25 books people can't agree on Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—ho ...

I think the system like this is pretty easy to be manipulated. Would all the reviews that are positive towards the daVinci code suddenly attract a bunch of negative votes. It's less about is this review accurate then does it agree with my perspective on the material. Yes I do occasional use U ...

I'm listening to The Da Vinci Code on cd right now in my car. I've decided I definately want to check out the movie when I've finished.

Well I learned a lot from The Da Vinci Code: 1. Stop reading things written by Dan Brown 2. How easy it is to get dreck published and make tons of money 3. How gullible people are 4. How to get away with plagarism (Read Holy Blood, Holy Grail to see if you think Brown ...

Oh my gosh - has to be The Da Vinci Code. It is so poorly written and the author throws in everything but the kitchen sink. What really makes me cringe, though, is when someone talks about how much he or she learned from reading the book.

... boring, but because he really only has one story to tell, and keeps writing it over and over with different details. I read the Da Vinci Code and enjoyed it, but then started reading Angels & Demons, and ended up putting it down after the first two chapters at the most, because I could ...

... now I can't stop! Very, very, very good books...better than I expected. edited to add: I'm also listening to The Da Vinci Code on cd in the car.

... des Himmels liegt in meinem Hinterkopf noch obenauf. Die fürchterbarste Enttäuschung war der Da Vinci Code von Dan Brown. Grüße, K

... in a famous museum for all the world to ogle and wonder about. Too bad Dan Brown didn't see it before he wrote The Da Vinci Code! LOL.

January 23, 2007: #6 Cross Bones be Kathy Reichs I give this book a 2. The blurb said it rivalled Da Vinci Code and it did have an interesting premise. There's a skeleton in Masada (the Zealot's last stand) which may have been Jesus . . . because people are getting killed over ...

... and the information dumps that emphasize Brown's research over narrative coherence or characterization. In short, The Da Vinci Code strikes me as a nifty idea held hostage by a bad writer who could at the very least use a stronger editorial hand.

#1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (if I had cataloged my son's books, then it would have been Harry Potter...) #100 The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury 10% (#71) The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White 50% (#354) Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy by Baxter Black ...

Looking at the Zeitgeist, the Harry Potter books are the most popular, followed by The Da Vinci Code and then 1984. So the #1s listed here kind of make sense.

Number 1 most popular = The Da Vinci Code Number 100th = Angels and Demons 10% = North and South by John Jakes Interesting that Dan Brown's books are numbers 1 and 100 and I haven't read either. I bought them as a set.

rebeccanyc #43 -- I don't own a Harry Potter book either (hate fantasy) but my number 1 book is The Da Vinci Code and I haven't even read it.

How fun. Here's mine. Most popular = The Da Vinci Code 10% = The Dead Zone 50% = The Minotaur (which touchstones to Ruth Rendell which is close, but not quite right) 60 unshared books the last of which is Hard Bodies Express Workout

... from entering a hard copy book that one has borrowed and read. Tags permit designating these as not owned. I've read The Da Vinci Code. I don't want to own or re-read it. If I list the book, does it distort the Zeitgeist figures any more than do the numerous books people list that they ...

I did not read The Da Vinci Code because I remembered how bad the Holy Blood, Holy Grail stuff was when I tried and failed to read it way back when.

... of Mary Lawson's Crow Lake has A novel printed on the cover, it does not on the title page, and though my copy of The Da Vinci Code : a novel has a novel printed on the cover, it does not on the title page. Both books have been widely entered into LT with a novel ...

... Brown's works due to their predictable nature, not due to a misplaced sense of elitism. Both Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code are very formulaic mystery/thrillers that, with an infusion of "controversy", managed to earn a veil of credibility and and the aura of "literature".

... to books to make good use of the time. Usually they're books I won't get to in written form. Recent listens have been The Da Vinci Code (glad I didn't waist my time on the book), To Kill a Mockingbird (Looking forward to renting the movie), and currently listening to The Hobbit. I ...

... have been much different. As for Thud! (which I haven't gotten to yet) the plot outline struck me as more of a Balkans/Da Vinci Code combo. I've actually found his recent books to be better novels than his earlier works. They work better as a whole, rather than being a laundry ...

... read in English, and since I'm not very good at it, I didn't notice anything bad about Dan Brown's writing and I liked The Da Vinci Code. The Harry Potter series, written for children (you also have to remember that), was easy for me to read and I enjoyed it. I also have a lot o fun with ...

... Also need to add The Notebook to my list. I own that movie as well. What a great story! Men cried during that movie. The Da Vinci Code was....well, pretty much what I expected-just ok. I'm probably going to watch the movie just to put all the peices together. I haven't seen anyone ...

The Da Vinci Code. Well, I didn't like the whole book (yeah, I'm of that fraction...), but the ending just killed it. It was so incredibly stupid and to me it seemed like he couldn't think of anything better or more original. I was sitting there just going, "what...?" and couldn't believe I had ...

Yep, The Da Vinci code is absolutely scoring my ten top worst readings ever. Mostly because it's so awfully bad written...Have never managed to finish À la recherche du temps perdu by Proust either. It's a little bit like the To the lighthouse/Tolkien -syndrome, it's sooo slooow and ...

... really. I saw the movie first (which I enjoyed), then read the book. I like them both as two separate entities. The Da Vinci Code - (I'm scared I'm going to be beat up for mentioning this one, but ah well.) This stayed pretty close to the book. Tom Hanks played Robert Langdon well... ...

Dan Brown - the one who wrote the poetry book Matter is not the Da Vinci Code author.

Easter Island made me want to visit Easter Island, but you could guess that :) The Da Vinci Code nourished my wish to go to Paris and visit the Louvre, something I really need to do soon, especially since I visited a tiny village mosque in Iran with something that looked like a destroyed wall... ...

I personally found The Da Vinci Code an amusing read; a wild tale. It wasn't all that good, but it wasn't horrible either. Digital Fortress on the other hand, was awful, and should be left well alone. Dan Brown proves he has absolutely no clue on how crypto or computers work, and when ...

... carefully considered whether the book gives the flavor of that area or if it is "just" the setting. As an example, yes, The Da Vinci Code is set in France but I wouldn't recommend it for that country. However, I WOULD recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. In Count you get a sense of "place" ...

>10 I very much enjoyed The Da Vinci Code and I couldn't get past page 50 of Jonathan Strange. Everyone's tastes are different.

... Winter by Felice Holman, a young reader book that was originally written in the sixties. This past week, I listened to The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown in my car. Right after I was finished, I read The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple by Robin Griffith-Jones. This little ...

... of those very plastic type books where everyone is rich, young, good-looking, well educated, and has a dramatic life. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, it was written at about the 7th grade level, and a silly story with cardboard characters, though the movie actually managed to be worse. ...

#8 - It has happened in my family, but not with The Da Vinci Code (no one is that mean). My uncle bought a book for his wife, she bought the same book for my dad, and my dad got it for my uncle, all in the same exchange. I guess you can chalk it up to things that happen in bilbliophile families. ...

... etc.). Anyone else care to continue with 'holiday2006'? Maybe we can spot giving trends. "ExVivre got three copies of The Da Vinci Code? Poor bastard!" Happy tagging!

... that think it's one of the best books they've ever read. Actually, the premise is pretty good (it's sort of like the Da Vinci Code), but it's one of those cases where somebody got a decent idea that they then proceeded to ruin. Oh, and I heartily agree with the Mitch Albom comment . ...

... is not the true 'objective' value of the work, and it is the 'objective' factors that makes something a classic. Take The Da Vinci Code, does it have value to some people? Yes. Does it have any characteristics that could make it a classic? Is it well-written? What does it say about society? ...

AS I said before, I think the Da Vinci Code is well-written. However that Dan Brown claims it's based of facts is utterly ridiculous. The biggest 'laugher' that I noted (and strangely I haven't heard anyone lese mention it) is that Issac Newton was leader of the cult of the Priory of Zio ...

Whew, I should know better by now than mentioning The Da Vinci Code anywhere on LT. A heated, long discussion is bound to follow. And all I did was list it as one of the books I thought was awful, but that came highly recommended to me. And just for the record, I didn't mind about the false "facts ...

I thought somewhere in the foreward to the Da Vinci Code, Brown says something like the book is based on historical fact or something like that... Anyway, its been over a year and half since I read it.

Stephen King is another author I could never get into. The Da Vinci Code was well-written and an easy read, IMO, even if the 'facts' Dan Brown presented were total bull-plop.

Definitely The Da Vinci Code and The Fountainhead as a close second behind it. Although I only struggled through about 120 pages of the latter before giving up, I mourn every minute I invested in it. Both were books highly recommended to me by not one but several friends.

... and fall out over each other's personal opinions... So, from books that I've read over the past two years: 1. Da Vinci Code - almost goes without saying - badly written, poor characterisation, banal - I don't mind that the ideas are un-original, plenty of good books are like that, ...

The Da Vinci Code wasn't so bad. LOL!!! OK, it was horrible, but it was easy, fluffy reading. I think I finished it in about 2 1/2 hours. On the other hand, I wasted my time on Snow Falling on Cedars and made myself finish it, even though it was bad from the beginning. I think that ...

we had a problem just once. permit me to paste something from a journal about the meeting where we discussed "the da vinci code": The meeting did not go well I felt. Main reason was that M. had told her husband that he should attend. For quite a while now she's been feeling unhappy that with ...

... my books aren't sorted in any fashion recognisable to any human other than me. Right now, from where I'm sitting I can see the Da Vinci Code next to the Secret of the Incas and a collected works of Hans Christian Andersen - turn my head this way and we get Labyrinth next to Inside Out ...

The Da Vinci Code (movie) was awful!

I know this isn't a children's book, although many young adults read the book, which I didn't, but The Da Vinci Code has to be my least favourite film from a book.

The opposition to Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown doesn't make much sense to me either. The book is fiction, it makes claims about Jesus, yes, but its not saying those claims are true, they are just part of the reality of the novel.

Very cool meme! The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger His Dark Materials ...

... the ones in your library now. 4. Add two recent reads to the end and touchstone just those two. The List: The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams The ...

... blah. and then there's the geographer's library by jon fasman. i bought it because (ulp) i just finished reading da vinci code (double ulp!) then and was in that historical-whodunit zone. never advanced after the 4th page. have no energy to pick it up again, even if the softbound ...

If I had to pick just one ... Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is the worst waste of paper and ink I have ever had the misfortune to read. It is easily the most poorly-written international bestseller foisted on an unsuspecting and undeserving public. If speculative novels about the fate of ...

Well, I didn't buy it, but I recieved The Da Vinci Code in the mail today.

... freshmen a decade back. That one made me want to Lysol my brain. Other people have touched on books I love to hate . . . The Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four (which I also admit I bought 'cause of the blurb), and anything by the highest-grossing bad author of our time . . . John Grisham! ...

... couple of titles off of Zeitgeist) American Gods (3,064 copies) in a catalogue tells you more about that person than does The Da Vinci Code (6,078 copies).

But I don't WANT to go back to MySpace! (I got three: Bridget Jones's Diary and The Da Vinci Code for "crap" and "overrated.")

... "stupid": Moby-Dick and Kung Fu High School. 3. chick lit: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. 4. crap: The Da Vinci Code. Also used to tag The Mary Kay Guide to Beauty, The Biblical Approach to Alcohol, and Jane Eyre. 5. trash: The Da Vinci Code. Runner-up: Valley ...

... I am listening to The Jester, by James Patterson. A very entertaining book, it kind reminds me of a cross between The Da Vinci Code or The Eight and Robin Hood. I look forward to finishing it on my road trip to Cincinnatti, OH (where I get to see Stephenie Meyer!) Both of ...

I really like The Rule of Four on audio. It reminded me of The Da Vinci Code. I am currently reading/listening to The Jester by James Patterson which brings in the historical fiction a little more than the other two, but has a similar flavor.

... enjoyed reading How to be French by Margaret Ambrose although the author tends to be a little condescending. I loved The Da Vinci code because of the location and cultural setting. I enjoyed the film too because of this same fact. How great to hear the French language spoken in an American ...

Going along with Amazon mess-ups, the Dan Brown who wrote Matter (a book of poems) is not the "famous" Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code et. al. However, since Amazon thinks they are, they're listed together here in LT, and I don't know how to separate them. Nor can I think of a good (and fair) ...

Readingmachine, Here's part of a sales pitch on abebooks for The Da Vinci Code and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I think you'll be amused: "UNIQUE, SPECIAL OFFER LISTING: An interesting sub-genre appears to be forming right now in the collectors' market and has drawn together some of the ...

... About the one that got away.. I have been collecting modern first editions since about 1992. I remember when the Da Vinci Code was first released. I held it in my hand on its release day and put it back on the shelf because I did not any money (poor graduate student). Even though its ...

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown was horrific. I won't go near The Da Vinci Code because this guy is such a god-awful writer. (No offense to those who were Da Vinci Code fans!)

Well, I can't argue that I hate The Da Vinci Code or Dan Brown, because I am one of the 1% of the population who has never read it. It came out, exploded, the movie came out, and I'm just shaking my head wondering what the big deal was. I've never had any desire to read it. Then again, I'm not ...

... top my story of newbie collecting foolishness. Once upon a time I worked in a bookstore where we had roughly 100 copies of The Da Vinci Code stacked around the store a couple of months after it came out. In came a gentleman looking for a first printing, first edition. Since I'd read about the ...

... with it. George R.R. Martin's series is also wonderful and very gripping. I read Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code Brown's books in particular are badly written and lacking in logic, and plausibility and written at about the 7th grade level. Still he some how sucks ...

... me his books were great, so I kept buying them and slogging through them. I may give them another chance, someday. The Da Vinci Code was not terribly well-plotted or written, but The Rule of Four was even worse. Totally agree with ExVivre (message 25) there. Read Angels and Demons ...

... Brown: bazillionaire and yet one of the (if not THE) worst prose writers of the last 100 years. I LOVED reading the Da Vinci Code for the sheer joy it gave me in laughing at its stupidities. Truly dreadful book. I'll never weed it from my collection!

The Da Vinci Code is the worst book I ever read all the way through. There are, I suppose, lots of worse books that I never bothered to finish. I think I kept reading DVC because I was having so much fun laughing out loud at the awful prose. It was also fun mocking the stupid characters who ...

Jot down another despiser of Dan Brown. I read the Da Vinci Code and found it plain bad in just about every way. I'd almost forgetten that I'd read Pillars of the Earth, but would largely agree (the only part of the book I liked was when Follett wasn't dealing with any of his ...

... hers: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. And I have never read The Da Vinci Code and have no wish to. That said, I loved The Poisonwood Bible, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Middlesex, and much preferred The Little Friend ...

... but are there some out there that are just so bad, so completely schlocky, that they are good? I'd actually put The Da Vinci Code in this category - come on, can you get past the first chapter and still take the thing seriously? After that, don't you know you're in the middle of a "B ...

I'll have to agree with The Da Vinci Code... bad all-around. I liked Angels and Demons to a point, bad prose, characters, and his so-called "research" aside. There was just something there that made it "okay," but after I read The Da Vinci Code, I was turned off to Dan Brown in general. You' ...

Count me among the Da Vinci Code detesters. I tried to read it three times and couldn't get past the second chapter. I'm in on Emily Dickinson, too. I think of her stuff as twilight twaddle, like those late-night radio "inspirational" bits or really bad Hallmark cards. And put me down for ...

... hate is The Rule of Four but Ian Caldwell and Dustim Thomason. I admit I fell for the cover blurb relating it to The Da Vinci Code and The Name of the Rose (and for the 30% off bestseller pricing at B&N), but it was incredibly bad. The entire premise is: lost Dad to unpronounceable ...

I also disliked the Da Vinci Code: I only read it so that I didn't seem like an uncultured twit at champagne-sipping lit. parties. :P I just couldn't get into the author's voice and the style that the book was written in. I read the first three 'Harry Potter' books and disliked them immensely ...

Unfortunately, most of the lit I really hate is lit other people really like. The Da Vinci Code, for example, or Philip Pullman. (Not sure why the first two examples that leap to mind happen to be on the Christian nutjob censor-list.) Or Life of Pi, in which the protagonist tragically fails ...

... than $15. During the annual National Book Week fair in Bangkok I got a beautiful hardcover copy of the Thai translation of The Da Vinci Code Special Illustrated Edition for $10. 'Twas lovely. The cheaper books published on the paper of the quality usually found in American mass market ...

... the middle school wanted each one to have a summer reading book - their choice. I sold lots of YA. But I sold OUT of The Da Vinci Code and everything we had on Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan. I think maybe boys especially veer away from YA fiction early. Sold lots of adult sports ...

... books become the most commonly shared. As for why The Demolished Man and A Fire Upon the Deep and not, say, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and The Da Vinci Code? Maybe Bester and Vinge fans just like primary material? One might assume that The Da Vinci Code ...