Discussion:The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

I thought the book was great although it had no positive or negative effects on my opinion of the Bible. I live quite near Rosslyn Chapel and it's an interesting place to visit.

This book kind of opened my eyes to things like the Bible being edited and all.

Dont get me wrong tho, it was a great book and Im still down with the Bible. Anyway, ALL YOU BITCHES NEED TO READ "ANGEL'S and DEMONS".

I would say the better of the two.

finally I can get my hands on it...bloody well time

You wont be dissapointed.

Who am I kidding? Its yers, course you'll be dissapointed.

I'm disappointed in you neo ❌

You're starting to sound like my English teacher. 😂

Nah, im kidding. You're okay.

It's good how the whole book excluding the epilogue only takes place over about 10 hours. I kept thinking "Aren't they hungry and don't they need the toilet?"

I started to get into the book, and then I had to put it down. The writing was SO substandard and SO predictable. 🤪
*Suppresses memories of book.....*

I'm reading this book now and i just had to do some research on it. i came across a lot. My other told me about this book and sai d it was one hell of a read and it makes you think a lot about the bible and the roman chatolic church. I know this book is fiction but i can't help to think that there is some kind of thruth to it. I looked up the OPUS DEI and they are really horrible people. On their website they say how inaccurate the bookis but there are enough stories that makes the book quite believable. there are two website www.odan.org and www.opusdei.org. they have a lot of interresting information. on odan there is a transcript from CNN where a girl tells her experiences. let me know what you guys think

I'm finally reading the damn thing 😊

Originally posted by ARC Trooper 117
I started to get into the book, and then I had to put it down. The writing was SO substandard and SO predictable. 🤪
*Suppresses memories of book.....*

I never can understand these reactions to the book... perhaps examples of the most awful parts would help my comprehension. I thought it was fab and I'm reading it over 😊

Originally posted by buffymitch
I'm reading this book now and i just had to do some research on it. i came across a lot. My other told me about this book and sai d it was one hell of a read and it makes you think a lot about the bible and the roman chatolic church. I know this book is fiction but i can't help to think that there is some kind of thruth to it. I looked up the OPUS DEI and they are really horrible people. On their website they say how inaccurate the bookis but there are enough stories that makes the book quite believable. there are two website www.odan.org and www.opusdei.org. they have a lot of interresting information. on odan there is a transcript from CNN where a girl tells her experiences. let me know what you guys think

Yes....the book is FICTION.
Opus Dei is not, yet they are HIGHLY fictionalized in the book....

Originally posted by Syren
I never can understand these reactions to the book... perhaps examples of the most awful parts would help my comprehension. I thought it was fab and I'm reading it over 😊

Well, I'm glad you liked it! 😉
But honestly, I've had more fun wiping my @$$ than reading this book.... 😕

I'm pretty sure that the OPUS DEI is in some way exaggerated but there mus be some truth to it. keep in mind that i do know that this book is fiction but Dan Brown did a lot of research for this book. Even if Dan BRown did exaggerate the OPUS DEI they are still barbaric.

I love this book Dan Brown uses Leonardo's mural "The Last Supper" to illustrate a contravetial theory of the origins of Christianity. It claims that the Holy Grail was not a physical object but a powerful female presence later suppressed by the church. Mary Magdalene, he says, was not a prostitute but a royal who married Jesus and bore him a child; that is, she was the Holy Grail for his blood. Jesus intended for her to succeed him in leading the church. If this theory is true, then it explains much about the oppression of women in society.

it's already among historians an established fact that Mary Magdalene was the most important figure (even more important than jesus since she was the one that saved it from being forgotten) and that the church tried to take her down

Opus Dei is harmless. It's like the masons, just a load of harmless traditional nonsense. Heck, one of the Labour cabinet in the UK is an openly declared Opus Dei member- she's just like anyone else...

... and I can't believe people are still taking this book seriously!

Originally posted by Death Incarnate
I love this book Dan Brown uses Leonardo's mural "The Last Supper" to illustrate a contravetial theory of the origins of Christianity. It claims that the Holy Grail was not a physical object but a powerful female presence later suppressed by the church. Mary Magdalene, he says, was not a prostitute but a royal who married Jesus and bore him a child; that is, she was the Holy Grail for his blood. Jesus intended for her to succeed him in leading the church. If this theory is true, then it explains much about the oppression of women in society.

I thought that use of imagery was fantastic, I loved the 'contravertial' ideas used and regardless of truth I very much enjoyed the book, thought it was brilliant, pure genius.

Is that this weird idea that John is a female in The Last Supper?

John? Excuse my awful memory... as far as I can recall the fellow sitting on Jesus'.... bloody hell, one of Jesus' sides 😂 Well, that it was actually Mary Magdalene, which can be deduced by close scrutiny.... the shape of the hands, and breast, are two of the clues, if my memory serves me correctly.

Check your memory..