The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Because religulous doesn't single out the bible and target it like the da vinci code does

Don't ask me to explain the logic of bible thumpers, I'll never understand the hatred you people have towards victims of rape

[monosylab1k]

and The Da Vinci Code was only one of the biggest books of the past decade, especially in the US. You're telling me that if all Bible thumpers hated it, that it would have been as successful as it was?

Or maybe it's the fact that it's a poorly written story with unoriginal, by-the-numbers moments that appeal to the same people who watch crap like CSI and Grey's Anatomy.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Tbh I don't watch CSI or Grey's anatomy and agree people who watch them are simpletons, but someone who watches John and Kate + 8 should be careful about scoffing TV shows

and yes there are plenty of non-bible thumpers in the US, they're the ones who keep the country running

[monosylab1k]

If you don't like a bible thumper saying it to you, take it from an atheist then -

Stephen Fry has referred to Brown's writings as "complete loose stool-water" and "arse gravy of the worst kind." In a live chat on June 14, 2006, he clarified, "I just loathe all those book[s] about the Holy Grail and Masons and Catholic conspiracies and all that botty-dribble. I mean, there's so much more that's interesting and exciting in art and in history. It plays to the worst and laziest in humanity, the desire to think the worst of the past and the desire to feel superior to it in some fatuous way."

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

congratulations, you found an athiest who agrees with you

I wonder what he has to say about John and Kate + 8

[monosylab1k]

congratulations, you found an athiest who agrees with you

I wonder what he has to say about John and Kate + 8

lol moving the goalposts

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

lol thinking you won by finding an (singular) athiest who doesn't like Da Vince Code

[leemajors]

Dan Brown is not a very good author, but neither was Ian Fleming. I liked the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the two subsequent novels, but Fleming and Larsson were both journalists and it shows in their writing. I thought the story of GWDT was the strong point, but the writing wasn't all that technically great. A lot of the hacking stuff is fairly dated at this point, but for a first novel it was a great effort.

[Leetonidas]

Good thread tbh

[JoeChalupa]

I read the first book and really enjoyed it but then again I've read the Twilight books so...