Actually, I decided against finishing the da vinci code by Dan Brown this weekend. I've already wasted 10+ hours reading up to where I am now. Enough is enough. This book is so bad I'm actually angry at myself for spending 10+ hours reading it so far. It is truly trash. The only reason I don't throw this away now is because I borrowed it from my mom last fall and should return it. (by the way my mom's taste in reading truly sucks...sorry mom) Otherwise, I would use this book for toilet paper.
Anyway, if you want a quality historical thriller about religion in medieval Europe pick up The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. This was actually made into a movie of the same name starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater that was actually quite good, despite being a very superficial treatment of the novel. Eco also wrote Foucault's Pendulum, about the Knights Templar, which I believe must have served as the inspiration for Dan Brown to write the da vinci code. At least when Tarantino rips off Hong Kong films he usually comes up with a quality production, but the end product of Brown's ripping off of Eco is what I would call "negligence per se" - i.e. so bad that it doesn't even have to be proven that its bad - its very existence is negligent.
Oh yeah, oddly enough, this horrible
work of fiction is evolving into an international cultural monstrosity with its release next year as a film starring Tom Hanks, Jean Reno and Audrey Taotou (star of one of my favorite films of recent times Dirty Pretty Things)
By the way, if you're looking for a one-stop review site of books, movies, and music, check out meta-critic.
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