Monday, March 13, 2006

I hate "The DaVinci Code"

I did enjoy reading The DaVinci Code at a certain level, but the ending just made me angry and ruined the whole book. It had no ending. The book promised revelation and delivered a wimpy self-revelation. The historical facts of The DaVinci Code are even more wimpy. I won't go into details, but the primary revelation of The DaVinci Code is that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a baby. I saw a special on the Discovery Channel called "The Real DaVinci Code." The special was narrated by Tony Robinson. One of the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail was asked if they had any evidence whatsoever that Jesus and Mary had a baby. He said no and then the author asked, "Is it a reasonable supposition to make?" He answered himself and said, "I think it is." The whole conspiracy Dan Brown traces in his book is based on this rather flimsy assumption with no basis in historical fact. None of gospels or gnostic gospels even speak of it. The TV special tried to track down any evidence to support the theories about Templars and the grail that "The DaVinci Code" claimed and found nothing. The narrator just found better historical explanations for the theories the book asserted as fact. The novel is fiction; however, Dan Brown in the preface asserts all descriptions of historical documents and secret societies are accurate. The special gave Dan Brown credit for spinning a good yarn, but dismissed the book as fiction.