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[fajrdrako]

Life and art doing an amusing dance together: Judge creates own Da Vinci code.

Now, I'm not an admirer of The Da Vinci Code, or even of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, but I admire the playful spirit behind them. And how often to we see a sense of humour in the law?

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Hah.

I liked the Da Vinci Code, mostly for the mystery aspect. Not fabulous writing nor deep characters. It was a fun read.

I don't understand all the hype/freaking out about it though.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Since I guessed the villain right after we met him I wasn't impressed by the mystery aspects of the Da Vinci Code. I was annoyed because the protagonists were supposed to be intelligent and successful in their respective fields; and I could figure out all the puzzles before they could, even in their supposed areas of expertise (including cryptography). They were so dim - forgetting from one chapter to the next that they had been given a sequences of numbers by the dead guy that could well be a bank account number... for example.

The only puzzle I miffed was one where I thought they were going after Sir Christopher Wren and it turned out to be Sir Isaac Newton - or vice versa, I forget now.

It did have its moments. I liked the mad albino monk assassin and the Opus Dei thing.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

I figured most of it out as well (the villain was obvious, I thought, from the start). But I'm not a fan of mysteries in general, so I really could care less. I suppose I should rephrase what I said as 'it was light reading and I enjoyed the story without any expectations.'

It didn't annoy me. The proclamation that any of this was history annoyed me a bit. I read it soon after visiting the Louvre so it had its romantic draw for me, post travels.

But I thought it was fun. *shrug*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The romantic draw for me was Rosslyn Chapel, which I love. I went to see it after the Dorothy Dunnett gathering in 2000 with Beulah; it was amazing.

I love the Louvre too, of course, but I was there much longer ago and my memories of it are less intense. Another beautiful place.

Seems to me we ought to have had a scene in Malta!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Oooh Malta. :D Yes!

I liked the picture book version, where they show photos of various places mentioned. That was fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Europe is full of beautiful places. After Malta, I am all the more enchanted by the Baroque style - which is quite possibly at its best in Vienna.