I Don't Get It.

[badstar]

The Da Vinci Code.

What's the big deal.

Why is it any worse than any other piece of badly-researched fiction?

Disclaimer: I have not read the book. By saying "why is it any worse than any other piece of badly-reasearched fiction?", I mean "Why do you (you being those who decry it so loudly as The Sum Of All Evil) consider it any worse than any other piece of fiction that you would call badly-researched?"

Comments

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Sure you can. A science fiction book that is supposed to obey the laws of this Universe but breaks them (such as Digital Fortress by Dan Brown) is poorly-researched. Same for historical fiction that gets widely accepted facts wrong.

[nofate301.livejournal.com]

what was up with Digital Fortress?

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Huge amounts of the "facts" presented were completely silly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress#Artistic_license

[nofate301.livejournal.com]

well, the first paragraph is the premise of the book, it's not supposed to be fact.

The rest, yea that's true. I wasn't trying to debate what you were saying, i was just curious. I'm in the secuirty field so, I was reading the book going..."is that right? I don't think so"

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

I am in the security field myself, specifically cryptography.

[nofate301.livejournal.com]

*bats eyes lashes*can you get me a job in the IT field? Or possibly security?! I'm just out of college with a BS in IT. PURTY PLEASE! With sugar on top?

*bats eye lashes more*

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Reply to the entry in my LJ with your email address and I will write back to you so you can send me your resume. I'll see what I can do.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Awwwww isn't that cuuuuuute?

[nofate301.livejournal.com]

i hope so