2006-06-28 17:22:26 · 16 answers · asked by Thomas 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes, finally I can say I think it is overrated. The movie was overrated, the book is overrated, and Dan Brown is overrated. The amount of other books out there now, with the same types of characters, puzzles and murders to solve, drives me nuts. What people need to do is stop their fixation over The Da Vinci Code and just move on to bigger and better things. It was good the first time I read it. 3 years later, it's become old hat.
2006-06-28 17:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by artist8604 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely overrated. EXTREMELY overrated. I suggest Christians here don't even bother getting offended:
1. It's simply too crappy.
2. The research is laughable - that little section he puts in about how the secret societies and stuff was all real, LOL. Heh, the Priory of Sion was a 50s hoax made by a bored and delusional Frenchman named Pierre Plantard. The rest of the research is just as shoddy.
3. It's crappy because in EVERY single book, he follows the same pattern - the old guy does it, the conclusion is exactly the opposite of the obvious (which ironically makes the resolution obvious), etc.
WAY overrated. Angels and Demons was better but I didn't even like that too much.
2006-06-29 02:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by rayndeon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Way overrated! I tried to read it when it was first published, before all the hoopla. I usually finish everything I start reading, but not this one. I didn't like the material, thought it was a rehash of lots of old anti-Roman Catholic slander, but more importantly I could not get into the story.
2006-06-29 10:13:36 · answer #3 · answered by Caffiend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is a very fun book and it makes you think about the Bible and Jesus. Isn't that a good thing. When you have questions about Jesus and your religion go to your church and get the answers. The book is fiction, junk food for the brain.
2006-06-29 00:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by WendyJean 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh god yes. the chrisians took off with it just like they did harry potter. to think they are threatened by works of fiction makes you wonder about their credibility! but any way the book was good until the last few chapters; then it kinda ran out of steam. danny boy just decided to see how wierd and fantrasic he could get since he ran out of interesting things to say.
2006-06-29 01:31:31 · answer #5 · answered by Vee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Too easy. But it's fun, too. I particularly enjoy that the author mixed fact and fiction so closely together that to unravel them, I had to do research on my own. What a great motivator!
2006-06-29 00:41:03 · answer #6 · answered by beastmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EXTREEEEEMLY over rated!!! as well as the movie, the hype, the documentaries et. Right and wrong are just words. If you do something right people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
2006-06-29 00:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by charity2882 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't waste my money on the book or movie personally.
2006-06-29 00:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by justmeagain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-06-29 00:26:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Arnold, it made the author very wealthy.
2006-06-29 00:25:54 · answer #10 · answered by rockEsquirrel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋