2006-07-20 06:54:50 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
fiction
2006-07-20 06:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fiction
2006-07-20 07:08:12 · answer #2 · answered by Minina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dan Brown was taken to court for plagiarism recently by two authors - Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln who wrote a book called the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. This book was based on their researches for a BBC2 programme called Chronicle. In the programme they had been following up clues and records left by a seemingly real organisation called the Prieure De Sion. This organisation and the documents it claimed it had inherited from previous generations of Prieure Maters - including Leonardo Da Vinci turned out to be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by four Frenchmen - exposed in a later BBC2 Documentary. Many of the ideas that were thrown up by the book were incorporated in Browns book.
They provide food for thought and amount to a sort of jumping off point for anyone interested in the origins of Christianity. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail certainly did that for me and led me to study many different areas - Middle Eastern history, the quest for the historical Jesus, New Testament studies and much more - well worth a read.
2006-07-20 12:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by Mick H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the author says himself in the first few pages that his work is fiction. art historians have already knocked out the claims the book makes about Da Vinci giving us a clue in one of his portraits about Jesus having a wife. The author uses his book and the "conspiracy theory" that people get so caught up in, to establish his fictional claims in the book as truth.
2006-07-20 07:26:52 · answer #4 · answered by dplovincalvinist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the consensus is Fiction.
So is the Bible though. So even if it claimed to be fact, it falls apart re: science - not testable, repeatable observations.
Great entertainment though. Very well written - great plot twists - well worth the read and the movie was decent as well. Must be a Tom Hanks thing - his movies are usually top notch.
2006-07-20 07:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by jjttkbford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction that has been designed around fact in order to make the reader more intricately involved in the plot. Brilliant, but Angels and Demons is better in my opinion.
2006-07-21 02:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by Teacher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction, though he boasts at the beginning about how carefully researched it is. He not only gets wrong important things about Ecclesiastical history, but lots of minor details about places in London and Paris that should have been easy to check.
2006-07-20 10:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although some of the facts are true, all of the stuff about Jesus and Mary Magdalene being married is purely fictional.
2006-07-20 07:01:02 · answer #8 · answered by magnoliapeachblossom13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha you can't be serious
if you have read any of his other geeky books then you would see they are all the same crappy bullshit style.
Not that I have, I skimmed bits to get the general idea cos everyone was "wow what an amazing book", like harry potter this too is crap. I watched the film as well the other day and realised I was right, it is a poor mans x-files.
though Leonardo Davinci did invent base jumping.
2006-07-20 09:57:32 · answer #9 · answered by Dirk Wellington-Catt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's fiction. Including the introduction that claims the "facts" the novel is based on are true.
It's a book made up of conspiracy theories, faulty suppositions and downright bad scholarship.
2006-07-20 09:28:20 · answer #10 · answered by poohba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction mixed with factual History.
2006-07-20 07:22:22 · answer #11 · answered by Krystin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋