Forget the GUT, the real force underlying everything in the universe is...IRONY...damn straight, homes! Don't believe the cheese? Well, that's some attitude mister! Look, you can see it all around you. Take, for example, a perfectly random experience like this one...
Friday, while mindlessly opening boxes of books from good ol' 703 (that's warehouse 703 bitches!) lying in the same box, literally on top of each other, were this, and this. And you say to yourself, but cheese, that proves nothing. And the cheese says, it's not what they are, perse, it's what they represent. A concerted effort, on the part of countless people, to refute "facts" presented in a hack mystery novel. Last time the cheese checked, at no time had Dan Brown, Doubleday, or anyone even remotely related to this book (up to and including Dan Brown's illegal gardner) had ever claimed any of it was "real" or based on "facts."
So why all the uproar? Where were all the books refuting the claim in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that the earth had been destroyed? It's easily as stupid an assumption as thinking that people reading The Da Vinci Code would automatically believe Jesus fathered some children with Mary Magdalene.
The point here, though, is that all Dan Brown wanted was to write a good novel and that it might become a bestseller. Well, opinions may be mixed on the former (but, he really isn't THAT good a writer), but he certainly succeeded on the later. And that success was in no small part thanks to shit like this!
2 comments:
The real problem is that Dan Brown took obscure rumors and conjecture and presented them in an interesting and accessible manner. He wasn't the first to suggest Jesus was married. It's just that the average american hasn't read the st. ujustinianius's 14th treatise on the gospel of jimbob the hebrew. (I blame this on the public school system. There just isn't enough latin being taught these days.)
No he isn't, but he's not even the first to have done it recently, that's the point. Holy Blood Holy Cross had quite a lot of hoopla when it was published back in the 70's. It spent several weeks on the New York Times best seller list. And then 30 years later Brown comes out with his book and everyone's lining up to jack him off because they think he was so "creative." As a sidenote, Baigent (and the other guy the cheese can never remember) sued Brown in London because they claimed he stole their ideas. They lost, but here's another piece of trivia; Brown was previously sued by a guy who, in the 80's, wrote a book called The Da Vinci Codex, which contained a striking number of similarities, both thematically and contextually, to Brown's work. Seriously, this idea ain't new, and the cheese is sick of people giving him so much free publicity because they think he's either a saint or the devil incarnate. He's just a hack genre writer who may or may not have commited plagiarism.
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