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The Da Vinci Code
December 17, 2017, 06:59 PM
Sig2340The Da Vinci Code
I love this movie.
It led me to visit both Paris and Roslyn.
One is the only megapolis I could live in, the other has the most inclusive, welcoming congregation I think I've ever encountered.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
December 17, 2017, 07:19 PM
mcrimmI read it while I was in Rome.
I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham December 17, 2017, 08:02 PM
0-0MUST read the book. The movie, while entertaining does the book no justice.
I studied in Brussels and the city is full with free mason stuff hidden in plain sight and its fun if you know what and where to look.
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December 17, 2017, 09:25 PM
rusbroYep, the book is a real page-turner.
December 17, 2017, 09:32 PM
RogueJSKYou definitely need to read the book. In fact, get the illustrated edition. Anytime the novel references a work of art or architecture (which happens frequently), that version has color photos accompanying it. Helps you visualize what the author is describing.
December 17, 2017, 10:38 PM
kkinaBook.
December 18, 2017, 09:54 AM
fallenangelhimquote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
You definitely need to read the book. In fact, get the illustrated edition. Anytime the novel references a work of art or architecture (which happens frequently), that version has color photos accompanying it. Helps you visualize what the author is describing.
Thanks for the heads up. Just oicked it up off Amazon.
December 18, 2017, 10:13 AM
DeqlynYa I read the book in a day and a half. Movie is good too but the book was solid.
What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin
Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke December 18, 2017, 12:32 PM
46and2The ideas are interesting, the story is fun, but he's a terrible - albeit successful - writer.
December 18, 2017, 08:57 PM
Rey HRHI have to ask: I saw the movie a long time ago, what's so compelling to get the book?
I'm partial to getting it as I haven't been stirred wrong by this forum but I'd like to get more info if what's compelling about it would pique my interest also.
ETA: I think I know what interested me enough to ask: I read Holy Blood Holy Grail along time ago because of a tv preacher.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
December 20, 2017, 03:47 PM
1967Goatquote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
You definitely need to read the book. In fact, get the illustrated edition. Anytime the novel references a work of art or architecture (which happens frequently), that version has color photos accompanying it. Helps you visualize what the author is describing.
+1. I found the illustrated edition at the local thrift store a few years ago so I picked it up. I had already read DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons when I picked up the illustrated version. I've also read Inferno and The Lost Symbol. I'm on the fifth book now...Origin.
At some point I want to go back and read the illustrated edition I have. The pictures look amazing.
December 20, 2017, 04:26 PM
jayhalsey+1 for the book.
I enjoyed the movie, but the book was, as usual in these cases, much better. Although, the movie does get some points for a stellar soundtrack.