sadakoyamamura
Danshaku Sadako
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Aria28 said:... "La Commedia" (The Divine Comedy) -Dante Alighieri
Yup Dante is a good read.
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
The Hunchback of Notra Dame - Victor Hugo
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Aria28 said:... "La Commedia" (The Divine Comedy) -Dante Alighieri
danfaz said:I just finished a book called Snow Wolf Very good Cold War espionage book!
Now I'm just starting Angels & Demons after reading the Da Vinci Code...
Miss_apollo7 said:...Have you read this bestseller?
Miss_apollo7 said:The Angels and Demons is worth a read I agree....I actually liked it better than the Da Vinci Code..Have you read this bestseller?
danfaz said:Sorry, which book are you asking about?
sadakoyamamura said:I've read that and I agree with you but I'm still looking forward to the movie version of the Da Vinci Code.
What I like about Dan Brown is the energy that you feel when you're reading his work. So let me recommend another of his work, Deception Point.
Miss_apollo7 said:Da Vinci Code
I liked Angels & Demons better.danfaz said:Yes, I've read that. I liked it alot! So, I decided to read Angels & Demons. So far, the beginning is very similar to Da Vinci Code.
senseiman said:I watched an interesting documentary on Dan Brown's Da Vinci code the other day.
It turns out that a lot of the stuff he presents as historical fact is just garbage. The Priory of Scion, which he states in the foreword is an actual historical body formed in 1191 whose leaders have included Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, was actually a hoax created in the 1950s in France by someone trying to prove he was descended from French Royalty. It was exposed years ago as such but he presents it as uncontested fact.
The stuff about the hidden messages in Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is also complete BS. So is the stuff about the Knights Templars tunneling under the Temple mount in Jerusalem, the stuff about the Cathars, some of the stuff about Mary Magdalane....its all made up.
It was an interesting show, hosted by the guy who played Baldrich on Blackadder. Kind of ruined the book for me though.
Well, I kinda like A Japanese Readerbareto said:Also, I'm starting my second year of Japanese next semester. Does anyone know of some beginning books, without too much kanji, that would be good practice?
I've watched and read some commentaries about Da Vinci after reading it. As far as I'm concerned it was only novel in which he tried to inject historical facts(?).senseiman said:I watched an interesting documentary on Dan Brown's Da Vinci code the other day.
It turns out that a lot of the stuff he presents as historical fact is just garbage. The Priory of Scion, which he states in the foreword is an actual historical body formed in 1191 whose leaders have included Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, was actually a hoax created in the 1950s in France by someone trying to prove he was descended from French Royalty. It was exposed years ago as such but he presents it as uncontested fact.
The stuff about the hidden messages in Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is also complete BS. So is the stuff about the Knights Templars tunneling under the Temple mount in Jerusalem, the stuff about the Cathars, some of the stuff about Mary Magdalane....its all made up.
It was an interesting show, hosted by the guy who played Baldrich on Blackadder. Kind of ruined the book for me though.