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In Reply to: The Da Vinci Code...run, don't walk posted by SF tech on March 22, 2007 at 09:57:22:
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"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
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I eventually tried to read the book to see what all the fuss was about and I never finished it. I couldn't finish it. I just gave up out of boredom.I did manage to watch the film through to the end. That makes it better than the book for me, at least in one respect. I also think it was a bit easier just watching things without having to wade through Dan Brown's descriptions which aren't high class literature, or even interesting writing.
But the story still didn't impress me. I do think the film is better done than the book, but there really isn't enough of a good story and plausible characterisation to justify spending your time with either in my view.
David Aiken
With the book...read a few pages...fall asleep....read a few pages...fall asleep. Repeat too often. After investing a certain amount of time in a certain amount of pages, the determination to finish kicks in, painful and tedious as it may be, and...finally it's done!I read two other books while I allowed this ordeal to continue.
With the movie... watch some, fall asleep, return movie to rental shop the next day. And no, it's NOT like I don't generally get more than enough sleep.
I agree that both the film and book are ultimately a waste of time. The book may have been slightly more "educational" in its presentation of arcane history, but that's splitting hairs.
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Just curious... after your disastrous affair with the book - what made you buy the ticket?I tortured myself with the book till the end, not sure why.
I would probably go and see the film if AuPh paid me hundred bucks.
I didn't buy a ticket.I waited till it turned up in the local video rental outlet and rented it out on a Tuesday when they have a regualar $1 overnight rental special for new releases. That's $1 Australian, roughly 78 US cents at the time. I figured that was as cheap as it was going to get to see it.
As for the why, I guess partly unresolved curiosity. Me experience with the book left me wondering what others saw in it and the movie let me see something of what someone else saw in it.
But probably the main reason was a sudden attack of stupidity and masochism. We all have them, you know, even though we don't like to admit it
. Sometimes we just have to go and do something that we know—or should know—is not a good idea, like baking a New York style cheesecake to see if the recipe was any good (not a bad idea) but then eating almost all of the cake on my own. I'm getting too old to handle the effects of a whole cheesecake, even spread out over a week or so but memory makes idiots of us all at times. I have fond memories of the days when I could eat half a cheesecake at a single sitting. What I need to remember is the nowhere near as enjoyable fact that I'm older than that now and I should only bake cheesecakes for events where they will be shared and all I get is one slice. Joking aside, however, I sometimes choose to watch a film or read a book just so I can say that I have seen or read it. Usually when I do so, I don't expect great things and I rarely find them but there are times when I am pleasantly surprised. It is good to experiment a little because we do find the occasional thing we like that we wouldn't find any other way and the occasional pleasant surprise is a great conditioning mechanism for keeping that willingness to explore alive.
David Aiken
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