I just finished reading The Da Vinci Code. It was kind of a Robert Ludlum lite. That's actually a good thing, since I gave up on Ludlum years ago--not because I came to dislike his writing, but because his books were so long that the print was almost microscopic (and after The Bourne Identity the next few seemed--gosh, I don't know, not as good? Still pre-coffee here and the vocabulary generator hasn't been kick-started yet).
Anyway, I really enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. It was full of cool historical details and interesting theories and religious conspiracies. It made me want to study the Knights Templar and Emperor Constantine and Zoroastrianism and Art History. Which is what is so totally cool about the internet. Just type Rosselyn Chapel into Google and you can find pictures! In my long-ago youth it would have taken me hours searching the card catalogs to find what I did in a few seconds online. (Now it takes hours to wade through through the hits!).
So read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It's shorter than Ludlum.
Posted by Susie at November 25, 2003 11:09 AM | TrackBackI've been trying to get hold of a copy for a while now, the library 'wait' list is miles long. I should just go out and buy the darn thing.
Posted by: Ted at November 25, 2003 02:08 PMI'm reading that one now and, while I'm only a hundred or so pages into it, I'm really enjoying it.
Of course, I'd probably get through it faster if I wasn't also reading Shut Up And Sing! by Laura Ingraham and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Posted by: Perry at November 25, 2003 04:06 PMI'm reading that one now and, while I'm only a hundred or so pages into it, I'm really enjoying it.
Of course, I'd probably get through it faster if I wasn't also reading Shut Up And Sing! by Laura Ingraham and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Posted by: Perry at November 25, 2003 04:08 PMAngels and Demons, Dan Brown's first book, with the same main character, is much darker, sinister, and better. Much better.
There's plenty in it to call it Ludlum lite, too, but the good guy doesn't always win in A&D.
Posted by: Blackfive at November 25, 2003 05:23 PMI'm pouting. I love Ludlum. But I'm glad you like this book and reviewed it because it's on the shelf behind me. And I'll get to it, oh, sometime this year. I have about 50 unread books on the shelf behind me. (And then about 200 of Brian's) Perhaps more.
hln
Posted by: hln at November 27, 2003 09:07 PMTry Ludlum's "Road To Gandolfo"...it's really funny. Very different from his other books.
Posted by: Zonker at December 1, 2003 07:16 PM