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Originally Posted by kacir
The only reason I have started to read "Angels and Demons" and "The DaVinci Code" was that I found out that the catholic church has put the books "on the idex" - that means that the church does not want its members to read the books. Wow! A forbiden book. Let us find out why ...
I know next to nothing about the art and I am not vere well versed in the catholic church history, so I have read the books. There are some details that might spoil the story for a reader that is less tolarant than myself, but ... I have definitely read worse books. You have to take fiction books with a grain of salt anyway.
than I have made a mistake by starting to read The Digital Fortress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress.
Holy $DEITY!
Such a piece of total, utter, absolute, mind-boggling, ULTIMATE technical illiteracy!
If you know something - anything - about cryptography, computers, or technics in general, DO NOT READ THE BOOK.
And this is not just about lots and lots and lots (all of them!) of small details that author obviously does not understand at all. The base of the plot itself - that you can somehow "poison" the chipher breaking supercomputer and to destroy it *physically* just by feeding it a specially crafted "bad" input data.
I have totally lost any respect for anything Mr. Brown might ever write again. |
And, while I don't give a tinker's damn about what the Catholic Church dictates to anyone, if you know anything about the art or this history of the Knights Templar, or even the early history of the Christian Church and something of Opus Dei, you would know that the DaVinci Code is utter and absolute artistic and historical garbage.
Best selling garbage, but garbage all the same. Of course, Mr. Brown is laughing all the way to the bank.
Of course, when I read that, I didn't expect anything to be historically correct, so all the glaring errors didn't do anything to ruin my "enjoyment" of the book. I never got pulled into the book in the first place.
Really .... that's more the sort of thing I was talking about when I started the thread (although the other stuff has certainly been interesting). It was that awful experience of being really into a book, being totally immersed in the experience, and then being brought up hard and smack into a wall because of one (otherwise trivial) detail that you just know is plain old wrong.
For me, the DVC would not qualify because I never got pulled into the book. From the get-go it was just too implausible. I can't really enjoy a book if I'm constantly having a one-way argument with it. (And, no, I've never had a two-way argument with a book .... I'm crazy but not that crazy.)