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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Heh. One of the reasons I felt like throwing The Da Vinci Code against the wall was that I live in Paris. I don't know if Dan Brown ever set foot here; but if he did he obviously wasn't paying much attention. 
Of course, he didn't have to come to Paris to write about it. I don't think Michael Crichton knew all there was to know about the subjects he wrote about, but he hired assistants to research the facts before he wrote about them. Seems like a minimum level of respect toward your readers to me. |
Heck with respect to the Davinci code and some of the "science" and history behind it, there were flaws... I've never been to Paris, but what you said doesn't surprise me. I generally find it annoying when the locations of books or movies are flawed geographically.
As for Michael Crichton, he was actually quite well educated himself as a medical doctor in Boston (the basis for his novel
A Case of Need) and he loved reading about science, and of course taking his own liberties with it in his books. I could handle that to an extent since that is what science fiction is about, although it could get over the top sometimes, too.