What do you assign to Orthanc?

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by skip spence

but the whole thing reminds me too much of the mass hysteria another book I haven't read brought on, namely The DaVinci Code.

Oh, I remember that hype! I was fourteen at the time, and my mother and aunts did everything to forbid me to read it. Naturally it only increased my curiosity about it, and three days after a terrible sermon from my mother I had a copy I read during lunch.

[skip spence]

Originally Posted by Lindale

Oh, I remember that hype! I was fourteen at the time, and my mother and aunts did everything to forbid me to read it. Naturally it only increased my curiosity about it, and three days after a terrible sermon from my mother I had a copy I read during lunch.

Yeah, there's nothing that tickles your interest like people telling you not to do something, especially for a teenager. Shocking book that. The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, WAS NOT A VIRGIN!!

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Larsson is in another league altogether. He writes characters I couldn't help but care deeply about, makes them face and swallow every kind of tough **** and has them emerging victorious and changed by the experience. Give him a try, I don't think you'll regret it.

We'll see, we'll see... I won't buy the books though, there I draw the line.

[Airaloske]

Originally Posted by skip spence

Shocking book that. The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, WAS NOT A VIRGIN!!

people do realize that Dan Brown's novels are works of fiction, right?

just checking.

[skip spence]

I should hope so. Most books are.

[Airaloske]

its just that they are just novels written to make money and entertain people, and people have gone off the deep end because they love conspiracies. it gets irritating.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Airaloske

its just that they are just novels written to make money and entertain people, and people have gone off the deep end because they love conspiracies. it gets irritating.

People have always loved conspiracies. There's something to assign - theories that are as stupid as anything you've ever heard, but the people who believe in it want to kill you because you've expressed reasonable doubts and issues with it.

[Gwathagor]

Read "Foucault's Pendulum." The ultimate book about conspiracies.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Airaloske

its just that they are just novels written to make money and entertain people, and people have gone off the deep end because they love conspiracies. it gets irritating.

It is more irritating still when they are as terribly and predictably written as the Brown novels...

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

It is more irritating still when they are as terribly and predictably written as the Brown novels...

Once upon a time, they were my guilty pleasures. Well, within a week of my purchase of those books during my early teens anyway.