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...nice faction consisting of startlingly liberal first-wave feminists. In other words, The Da Vinci Code recasts the history of Christianity into something that looks a lot more like the history of ... Islam, wherein an early schism took place between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. Could the book's passionate following in a predominantly Christian America express a secret, even unconscious sympathetic identification with Islam? Or a repressed desire for Christianity to have a less boring, more Islamic history - richer, darker, riven at its root by an exciting sectarian war? (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...checkpoint ..."). And the unfortunate sentence "His massive sex organ bore the tattooed symbols of his destiny" should itself be forcibly tattooed on Brown's massive sex organ. Worse, Brown's scholarship reads like the work of a man who believes what he reads in Wikipedia. In particular, the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space of half a page) the "link between modern science and ancient mysticism." (Unlike symbology, noetic science is, amazingly...
...Harvard students in the book checks into the Charles Hotel for a night when she is upset. Do you know anyone who has ever actually done that...
...cleaning up my roommate’s vomit.” “Sleeping. Hopefully in my own room.” “Pretending to do homework.” “Straddling John Harvard’s head reading an organic chemistry book with no pants on.” Which House you’d want to live in: “Lowell, Leveritt [sic], Winthrop, Adams. Basically anything but Mather.” “Don’t care...
...done in college: “Avoided [the] freshman 15.” “The men’s soccer team.” “Been in a main stage show at the Loeb/ART and been president of a club and published a book.” “Figured out what I want to do with my life.” “I would like to say that I did what made me happy.” “I’ve peed on everything here. Everything...