Please define "damned good read." The story is entertaining, a pageturner, but the prose and characterization are atrocious.


>Hardly! We all know that it's a load of bunkum, based on flawed research and conjecture. It has spawned as many books/articles/TV docu's etc. as were used to research it. Its original premise was based on "The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail" which has been denounced as a hoax and the work of charlatans.
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>However, Star Wars is also a work of fiction but very popular and "...Da Vinci..." is, IMHO, nevertheless a damned good read. We're very tolerant of heresies in the West and no way would a conjectural work of fiction be banned - book or film.
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>The Church mi's well object to the cameo appearance of John Wayne, in "the Greatest Story Ever Told", as the centurian who said "Surely this man was the ... Son of Gad", as we all know that he wasn't there, or even alive during the Crucifixion :-)
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>>Hi
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>>Is Da Vinci Code banned in Christian Countries?
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>>Well is it bannable in a Hindu Country. What politician do for votes. *g*
>>http://www.ndtv.com/topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=Da+Vinci+Code%3A+I%26B+Ministry+holds+release&id=19407&category=National