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           … and oddly enough, the movie was better than the book.

My friend Bunny and I went to see The Da Vinci Code. I had read the book (by
Dan Brown) [1] a couple of years ago, and as I explained to my friend Hoade
(who's written a book (Ain't That America) [2]) that the writing was bad—
amateurish, choppy, simple vocabulary, chapters that were at most four pages
or so, wooden charaters, and I was able to guess the next “reveal” before the
characters did (except for the identity of “The Teacher”).

In short, a really bad book.

But, as I futher explained, one that I (and fourty zillion other people)
couldn't put down. Not only a fast read, but a real page turner (so Dan
Brown, the author, did something right).

So it was with rather low expectations that I went to the film, and given
such low expectations, it was rather good [3]. A decent mindless escapist
entertaining piece of film, but not for those of you who don't want the
divinity of Jesus Christ called into question.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400079179/conmanlaborat-20
[2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595095291/conmanlaborat-20
[3] http://theferrett.livejournal.com/742664.html

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