Dirty Reading

I've been listening to an audio book on my commute between the Old Port region of Marseille and the lab where I've got an office -- CPPM. The book makes me feel dirty.

The Da Vinci Code is... well, you probably know it better than I since everyone I've talked to has read it. The first thing that gets me is the science is wrong. For example, there is no way a GPS receiver works underground. If they had enough power to do that, we'd be uncomfortable above ground! The the slimey bit comes from the layout of the story. "The church's beuty is in its architecture"... "but not tonight", or "I'm going as fast as I can", Tom said hurridly (if you get that reference...).

On the other hand, I do want to know what the heck happened! So I keep listening. :(

Comments

[manuel visaya]

the arrangement of the prison walls is so that one cannot just escape. (PDR-676)

[Alejandro Rivero]

I met the book a weekend last quarter and I did a fast reading; yep it is a dirty book, in the same that Sophie's World is, but it seems that most of this "illumination" literature is so, since the age of Perenelle. Perhaps the only funny thing of this literature is to see how a hoaxer tricks another (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Blood,_Holy_Grail ) and so on.

As for the Grail, it is in Valencia :-)

[Gordon T Watts]

Thanks for that reference, Alejandro. I had no idea that is what he based this book on.

Velencia? I need to go there. I have friends there. Sounds like the perfect excuse. ;-)