Sunday, February 29, 2004
DA VINCI
I have to report: I ended up not liking The Da Vinci Code very much. It is two things together: a puzzle that we have no chance of solving ourselves; and a blood and thunder chase story which needs a lot of coincidence to make it work. It is impossible to figure out who did it and why; a 'gotcha' book if I ever saw one. John says that I read it too slowly. It needs to be done fast. I guess so you won't notice there is not a lot to it.
I am the wrong guy for this kind of thing. I think things like "if these people didn't have all that money they'd be shit out of luck". I suppose that part of it has to do with my towering disinterest in religious iconography or any conspiracy theories aimed at the RC church or the gnostics or the Knights Templar or even the goddam Rosicrucians. You gotta care a little.
This book has been in the top slot of the NY Times Best Seller List (should that be capitalized?) for 46 weeks and that is in hard cover. Soon, the author will have enough money to pull off the same chase acrobatics that these characters do. I am a lone dissenter; a majority of one.
