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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2006, 01:50:17 PM »
I'm not much of a newbie; I've been here over a month now. But I recognise that you like newbie smackdown, so I will blow a raspberry at our DARTH CAPITAL over there.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2006, 01:55:39 PM »
That's still pretty newbie.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2006, 01:59:08 PM »
OK OK, I'm a newbie, is that so wrong?
Smithe me, oh mighty smither!
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2006, 04:24:41 PM »
Smithing is when you hit someone and take one tenth of their lunch money.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2006, 04:29:30 PM »
I thought Smithing was when you made someone listen to Morrissey over and over.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2006, 04:32:27 PM »
And I though to be smithed was to have a conversation with Spriggan.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2006, 09:23:55 PM »
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OK OK, I'm a newbie, is that so wrong?
Smithe me, oh mighty smither!


I believe the word your searching for is smite. :P

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I'm not much of a newbie; I've been here over a month now.


You seem to have trouble with the little math it takes to recount a month. January 18th...Febuary 6=20 days, not a month. :P
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2006, 03:18:26 AM »
Faster Master Pastor really puts the "arrogant" into "arrogant scribe".
I was only trying to say that there is a page of people "more newbie" than me.

O.K?
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2006, 06:53:35 PM »
quite frankly, Da Vinci Code sells a lot because people are curious, not because it's a great book.  A&D is a much better novel, and I agree that Da Vinci seems to follow the A&D plot structure.  People come into my store all the time asking about Da Vinci Code and I tell them this, "Of his four books, it ranks 3rd.  Read James Rollins - he's better."

My problem with Da Vinci code is that nobody changes.  There is no real good charcter development.  Also, the "codes" leave much to be desired.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2006, 07:50:29 PM »
Oh, those codes were awesome. I especially liked the one where they had to find "a five-letter word for something round, typically associated with Isaac Newton." And it only took them 15 chapters to do it--they're geniuses.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2006, 10:32:51 PM »
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Faster Master Pastor really puts the "arrogant" into "arrogant scribe".
I was only trying to say that there is a page of people "more newbie" than me.

O.K?


And I was just poking fun at you. :P
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2006, 02:21:12 AM »
im glad im not the only one who thought that about the "codes."  I by the time it was figured out i was thinking, "are you effing kidding me?"

That was almost as bad as The Historian...
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2006, 09:02:31 AM »
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And I was just poking fun at you. :P


Me too!  :P :P
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2006, 02:14:57 AM »
The thing about this book that many fail to understand is that it is more a history lesson rather than a novel.  Its history wrapped up in a story.  The story actually takes back seat to the history and "facts" presented in this book.  If any of you don't have any background knowledge on any of the info Dan Brown presents in the book I suggest you do yourselves a big favor and google some of the stuff he is talking about.

Its not just one big ol' conspiracy theory.
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Re: The Da Vinci Code
« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2006, 09:16:16 AM »
The thing you appeared to miss is that the "history lesson" involved in this book is extremely suspect, at best. The numbers he cites are off from most scholarly accepted figures, he's made up a number of events, and made some connections that only some very extreme fringe books lend any credence to. I recommend getting your history from a history book instead of a poorly researched novel.
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