Da Vinci code what do you think?

Question

It was very offending to most Christians, What do you think of it?

Answer 1

A very entertaining FICTION.

Answer 2

It was very stupid. The writing was god-awful. His facts were anything but. The ONLY things he got right was that the Louvre is in Paris, Paris is in France and the Channel seperates England and France. Everything else he tries to pass off as fact is wrong.

My friend is a couple credits shy of being an art historian and he barely made it past the first chapter. The dimensions of the Mona Lisa and other Da Vinci paintings are off. Major. And his historical facts don't check out. Anybody with half a brain would have sh1t canned it. The only way they could get me finish reading it was by betting me I couldn't do it.

Answer 3

It's interesting that people will read a book as old as the bible and claim it to be all non-fiction and gospel. I never read the book but, I heard enough about it not to take it to heart either. Regardless of all of the things that can be dispelled I think that Jesus was in love with Mary in some way and that being what he could have been as in a healer could have also created life within Mary without procreating sexually. After all if he was the product of immaculate conception anything else like that would be possible. I n the end the fact that Mary was exalted the way they claimed in the movie was romantic.The secret love story of Jesus and Mary is either hidden or lost. But the idea still lingers.

Answer 4

Dan Brown took an intriguing concept (with lots of sloppy research, but cool concept, nonetheless) and wrote a schlocky, piss-poor, half-rate thriller out of it.

Out of the gate the story is initially very compelling, and the intial code-breaking is kinda interesting. But then Dan gets so excited about telling the reader what he thinks is the truth about the Grail, Jesus, and Mary, that he forgets that there's a story to tell. The interactions between Langdon and Teabing degenerate into a horrible series of "As you already know, the blah-blah-blah...8 pages of exposition...blah-blah-blah Leonardo." "Why yes, Robert, and that's why, as you know..." And God help me, why is Sophie so dang slow to pick up on anything? Well, I know why, it's because Dan needs another excuse to explain something again.

Add to that some ridiculous leaps of logic and horribly wooden characters and what you have is a really marginal book that sold monumentally well because Danny claimed that all of the art history and church history was "true," and people just want to believe they are getting in on some big secret.

Frankly, his Angels & Demons was far more entertaining for the money.

Answer 5

I'm not Christian, so the religious aspect doesn't bother me, but I thought it was way overrated. It really isn't that good. Dan Brown's previous book, Angels and Demons (I think it was called) was superior to the Da Vinci Code.

Answer 6

I never read the Da Vinci code.

Answer 7

I personally think it's a great fiction. Love the way everything ties in so nicely.

Am not a Christian though. However, i believe that fictions should be read with an open mind. It's afterall, fiction, and the beauty of fiction is the imagination and events beyond truth.

Answer 8

I'm a Roman Catholic, born and raised, and quite frankly my thoughts are that throughout the centuries, the Catholic Church has gone through many "stages"....not all of them good...Do I believe that there are secrets that Popes and other "higher UPS" know and don't/won't disclose...absolutely! Am I upset at the thought that Jesus had a human side with all the wants and desires that regular people have...NO! If anything, I say, bring it on and let the priests have wives, for Christ's sake...and children...seriously, unless you have the experience, how can you preach with any sort of intellegence/experience about the subject...Time for the Church to wake up!!!

Answer 9

I myself is a practicing Catholic but I did not feel offended by the book. This is because we must always consider the fact that Dan Brown is a fiction writer and that he is not writing those things as a fact. I believe the best way to read his books is to take it with a grain of salt and not to heart. Christians are afraid that it might influence the believers' way of thinking but we must also give credit to them that their faith might be strong enough not to be influenced by a FICTIONAL BOOK :-)

Answer 10

Irrelevant balderdash, like most things built around people's myopic addiction to sky-gods. Especially offensive when the sky really is "falling down", in a way, with climate change, and overpopulation, and the growth of consumer economics robbing all future generations of most of what we have had, and possibly life itself. I despair, while most people seem to assiduously avoid confronting reality and prefer to argue over fairy tales. Not a good answer, perhaps, but I'm old and exasperated!

Answer 11

it was a very badly written book. i was always yawning. Dan Brown can't create a climax or suspense. evrything is really predictable and obvious. he can't even get the name of a major attraction in London right, i dont think that he's worth beleiving. the priory of sion dosn't even exist