Listen to the episodes of the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back where they covered Digital Fortress, Brown's first novel, which he has stated will never go back into print, for some laughs at what a shitty writer and general moron he is.
No love for the Donatello Diaries?
It's much stupider than that. The "code" is that one of the apostles in Da Vinci's Last Supper is AcKsHuAlLy A wOmAn and that therefore Jesus was secretly (but also openly) married to Mary Magdalene (therefore not really the Son of God) and his mortal descendant was the woman the author's self-insert protagonist was fucking, conveniently enough. There's a little more to it than that but the whole premise is that the main character is a symbologist (i.e. a schizo retard reading whatever he wants to read into the imagery of classical paintings) and therefore sees through the cryptic meaning that da vinci of all people hid in his work concealing the duplicity of the early Church (because they were Men and therefore evil misogynists thwarting feminist-Jesus's true live-and-let-live gospel), which results in modern-day Opus Dei assassins upholding Catholic orthodoxy through murder of anybody who dares speak these profound truths. The fact that Opus Dei is a lay apostolate that wasn't founded until some time last century somehow doesn't factor into their seemingly essential role in this millennia-spanning conspiracy at all. Boomers ate this shit up back in the early 2000's. My AP History teacher thought this shit was the most profound, transgressive work ever.
Seconding this. I think I still have my copy somewhere. The AP History teacher I mentioned got really pissy when I started pressing him on some of these inconvenient details.
So it was "intelligent" because it confirmed the biases of hipster atheists, and they didn't care how retarded its conspiracy was because anything that criticizes the Church is automatically rad in their eyes.
Pretty much. The protagonist is some blowhard boomer who is the smartest man in every room he walks in, proving that "god" is just a universal hedonic principle through the power of his own superior insights, thus justifying every soulless fling he's ever had while condemning traditional White, Western, and Christian values as fuddy-duddy repression by woman-haters. Not self-justifying at all, no sirree bob.
It was just a failed trilogy. you ever watch those Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies? Except the first DaVinci Code was a yawner, Angels & Demons is entertainingly bad.
Wasnt there one recently where they have to find a new pope but the popes a tranny or something?
Pretty much. Hence why I watched them while inebriated and paid next to nothing for them.
Intersex, not trans. Wasn't his choice.
It was the film makers choice to put that in their movie.
It happens, they exist. I don't see the issue.
Hey I say fuck catholics too, but that was very clearly meant to be a piece of anti Catholic propaganda.
Besides dunking on catholics, it also doesn't make sense within the movie.
There's also a TV show called Lost Symbol, with a younger Langdon going on adventures in Washington DC. It's shit.
Didn't bother seeing it, but that's the impression I got as well.
Where is he wrong exactly? Id says hes on the money there.
I'd say RPO was a much better movie than the book, which read like a phonebook off "This is what I love about 80's shit."