my point about being offended, is that if you knew the subject matter was not your thing, why did you see/read it in the first place? and if you did anyway, why should a piece of fiction have such a great impact on you that you are offended?
Again, who on this board is complaining about offense? Certainly not the review.
also, mustard, since you want a reply, it must really really irk you to have had to change your next book to be more like this psuedo-intellectual trash.
Cage it, buddy!
Yes, I changed my book to be more Da Vinci Code-ish. I liked the Da Vinci Code. It was a fun, goofy book. And it sold really well.
But the thing is, I realize that Da Vinci Code is a
fiction novel, with fictional facts, and manipulation of the truth. Likewise, my book is full of conspiracies and manipulated history, all of which has a basis in fact, but the majority of which is baloney. It's
fiction. It's a good story. Unlike Dan Brown (and his irrational followers), I don't claim that my book is all true.