The Da Vinci Code
August 16, 2005 2:28 a.m.

I haven't be updating because I have found people to listen to me. Crazy isn't it? I write in my diary because I want people to listen and hear me. I now have someone write to almost every evening and tell the details of my day or my opinions of books and film. ...it sort of takes away my cathartic need to log it here.

But I think I will do another review, this time of The DaVini code.

Honestly, everyone out there who says this book is fantastic only has experience with mediocure writers. ....The man cannot write himself out of a paper bag. ....the story is moderately interesting. The factial information is interesting, but it was be much better if presented by Graham Hancock as he tells us how he had the ideas and reseached them, not a fictious savenger hunt that would NEVER happen.

A Friend of mine told me that I don't have the ablity to suspend disbelief. ...I disagree. I read a hella lot of fantasy. Oh yes I have an imagination and I can suspend disbelief. BUT if I'm reading a mondern adventure story, I would like it to be logical! EVEN Fantasy quests and adventures are logical. The character motivations make sense, they act of their own nature.

In this book he was trying way to hard to be clever.

he can NOT write dialogue.

"NO WAY"

"WAY!"

...yes thank you Bill and Ted. ...and btw that as a direct quote from the book.

There was one part where they are in a car speaking to an intercom system and that made me realize how the book would have actually made a much better comic book.....and I suppose the movie will be pretty good, but He CAN NOT write. He can not put words together in an interesting and original way.

Let us compare, shall we?

The Da Vinci Code:

Despite PHI's seemingly mystical mathematical origins, Langdon explained, the truly mind-boggling aspect of PHI was its role as fundamental building block in nature. Plants, animals and even human beings all possessed dimensional properties that adhered with eerie extatitude to the ratio of PHI to 1.

"PHI"s ubiquity in nature," Langdon said, killing the lights, "clearly exeeds coincidence, and so the acients assumed the number PHI must have been preordianed by the Creator of the universe. Early scientists heralded one-point-six-one-eight as the Divine Proportion."

"Hold on", said a young woman in the front row. "I'm a bio major and I've never seen this Divine Proportion in nature."
"No?" Langdon grined. "Ever study the relationship between females and males in a honeybee community?"
"Sure. the female bess always outnumber the male bees."
"Correct. and did you know that if you divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees in any beehive in the world, you'll always get the same number?"
"You do?"
"Yup, PHI"
The girl gasped. "NO WAY!"
"WAY!" Langdong fired back.

The Message of the Sphinx - Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval

In 1989 Joh West approached Professor Robert Schoch of Boston University. A higly respected geologists, stratigrpher and paleontologiest, Schoch's speciality is the weathering of soft rocks very much like the limestone of the Giza plateau. clearly, says West, he was a man who 'had exactly the kind of expertise needed to confirm or rebut the theory once and for all'.
Schoch was at first sceptical of the idea of a much older Sphinx but changed his mind after making an initial visit to the site in 1990. Although he was unable to gain access to the Sphinx enclosure he could see enough from the tourist viewing platform to confirm that the monument did indeed appear to have been weathered by water. It was also obvious to him that the agency of this weathering had not been floods but 'precipitation'.

........a couple of pages later

Back in Boston, Schoch got down to work at his laboratory. The results were conclusive and a few months later he was ready to stick his neck out. Indeed to John West's delight he was now prepared fully to endorce the notion of a rain-eroded Sphinx - with all its immense historical implications.
Schoch's case, in brief - which has the full support of palaeoclimatologists - rests on the fact that heavy rainfall of the kind required to cause the characteristic erosion patterns on the Sphinx had stopped falling on Egypt thousands of years before the epoch of 2500 BC in which Egyptologists say that the Sphinx was built. The geological evidence there for suggests that a very conservative estimate of the true construction date of the Sphinx would be somewhere between '7000 to 5000 BC minimum'.
In 7000 to 5000 BC - according to Egyptologists- the Nile valley was populated only by primitive neolithic hunter-gathers whose 'toolkits' were limited to sharpened flintstones and pieces of stick. If Schoch is right , therefore, then it follows that the Sphinx and its neighboring temples (which were built out of hundreds of 200 ton limstone blocks) must be the work of an as yet unidentified advanced civilization of antiquity....

I would much rather read the information straight up than have it packaged in a story that's suppose to entertain me and trick me into learning something. I WANT to learn something, I don't have to read some stupid acount of a lecture with stupid dialogue to understand the importance of PHI. I rather be told straight forward what is so interesting. Because if it's Interesting it doesn't need a song and dance,... a catchy hook or an ad campain. ...it is, simply put,...exciting to learn to things, especially in away that doesn't question my intelligence. ....I mean, really, isn't the idea that the Sphinx was not built by Egyptians, nor at the time we've been told....understanding that we've be lied to our entire lives....isn't that fact so sobering enough to wet your curiousity to know more? Don't you want to know the truth behind the lies we've been sold? do you wait for the walk signal and have someone hold your hand.....or do keep jogging at the pace of your friend, and cross anyway, even though the "Don't Walk!" sign is up.

fuck mediocure writing, if I wanted that I'd read nothing but other peoples diary entires (No offense to those who write interesting diaries, and you know who you are) ....When I want substance I read Graham Hancock or Michael Cisco. JK Rowling might not be the best writer in the world.....but she weilds a damn interesting story with great characters and believable dialogue.....really, can't you just hear fred and George saying "make way for the heir of Slytherin, Seriously Evil wizard coming though!"