OT - Finished "The DaVinci Code"

[Baron Munchausen]

Alneyan said:
Wasn't there a claim by Dan Brown, in the opening of the book, saying something along the lines of "all the documents presented therein are accurate"? That certainly isn't verbatim quoting, of course, as I've never got anywhere near the English version.

That claim alone sounds more like a marketing ploy than something else, but I have always found it odd, given some of the material presented in the book (say, I don't live in Paris, but I'm not sure I would go around town the way his characters does... unless I'm the sort of chap who goes through the Bronx to go from one end to Fifth Avenue to the other).

This complete lack of real geographical knowledge is the same sort of thing that has been found in the Gospels and led some people to doubt that the story is real.

And this whole controversy reminds me of the Satanic Verses dust-up. Some scribbler writes a bad story based on some scraps of information about the history of his religion and a bunch of religious fanatics have a conniption.