The Da Vinci Code
Jul. 17th, 2004 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseMy aunt let me borrow it, and I thought that I may as well. I'm not so sure that it was worth the time. Sure, the symbols were pretty, and the riddles were nice, but the writing? Gah.
The whole Goddess thing was right up my alley, and let's face it, Da Vinci's paintings make it clear that he understood the sacred feminine. 'Course, he was also supposed to be gay. And yes, the Chalice and the Rose and the Pentacle are all Goddess symbols, very nice. But everything in this book felt so contrived, and suspending disbelief wasn't enough. It had to be downright expelled.
It really lost me when they pulled the whole "I wass orphaned when my parents died in a car accident" "Hey, MY parents died in a car accident" "OMG so my long-lost brother!!1!one." Erk. And the good-guy-turned-bad was totally OOC.
Really, it felt like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," except that it took itself seriously. That and the realtive lack of hot, half-naked men with bullwhips. Its like, yes, you're subverting the dominant paradigm and calling the Church names. Bully for you. That doesn't make you cool, original, insightful, or the only one who understands the true nature of the human spirit. Philip Pullman did the same thing, only a hell of a lot better.
Symbols=cool. Goddes=cool. Bad writing=negates all that coolness.
The whole Goddess thing was right up my alley, and let's face it, Da Vinci's paintings make it clear that he understood the sacred feminine. 'Course, he was also supposed to be gay. And yes, the Chalice and the Rose and the Pentacle are all Goddess symbols, very nice. But everything in this book felt so contrived, and suspending disbelief wasn't enough. It had to be downright expelled.
It really lost me when they pulled the whole "I wass orphaned when my parents died in a car accident" "Hey, MY parents died in a car accident" "OMG so my long-lost brother!!1!one." Erk. And the good-guy-turned-bad was totally OOC.
Really, it felt like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," except that it took itself seriously. That and the realtive lack of hot, half-naked men with bullwhips. Its like, yes, you're subverting the dominant paradigm and calling the Church names. Bully for you. That doesn't make you cool, original, insightful, or the only one who understands the true nature of the human spirit. Philip Pullman did the same thing, only a hell of a lot better.
Symbols=cool. Goddes=cool. Bad writing=negates all that coolness.