The Davinci Code
<div class="IPBDescription">Best book ever......</div> SO i got this book the other day in the carribean on my way home so i would have something to read for the 6 hour ride home....
I did not put it down, turning down both lunch and snack on two seperate flights... and tripping over people in the airport for not watching where i was walking, this was easily the most intriguing book i have ever read.
Without giving too much away, Leonardo Da-Vinci was part of a secret brotherhood (this is true) which is believed to guard the secret of the grail. The grail isnt what everyone thinks, its something else, and all who know of it have been murdered in one night by the "church" bent on keeping the brotherhood from releasing the grail to the world, exposing the church as fake, and misleading..
What IS the grail, im not telling, but i will say this book is INSANE GOOD...
one of the most interesting things i read from this book was an actual number, PHI, which exists, known as the Divine proportion, or golden number, i was amazed at how it applies to all life, nature, the bible, theology, ecxetera. I looked more about this online and found out this was also true and existed...
All in all i would recommend this book to everyone, but this isnt just a book report/ advertisement, i know some of you here have had to read this book, and i want to hear your views on it...
~Jason
I did not put it down, turning down both lunch and snack on two seperate flights... and tripping over people in the airport for not watching where i was walking, this was easily the most intriguing book i have ever read.
Without giving too much away, Leonardo Da-Vinci was part of a secret brotherhood (this is true) which is believed to guard the secret of the grail. The grail isnt what everyone thinks, its something else, and all who know of it have been murdered in one night by the "church" bent on keeping the brotherhood from releasing the grail to the world, exposing the church as fake, and misleading..
What IS the grail, im not telling, but i will say this book is INSANE GOOD...
one of the most interesting things i read from this book was an actual number, PHI, which exists, known as the Divine proportion, or golden number, i was amazed at how it applies to all life, nature, the bible, theology, ecxetera. I looked more about this online and found out this was also true and existed...
All in all i would recommend this book to everyone, but this isnt just a book report/ advertisement, i know some of you here have had to read this book, and i want to hear your views on it...
~Jason
Comments
Maybe your amnesia was brought about by the fact that you're a FILTHY LIAR!
or.... not.
seriously, no more special rectangles on worth1000
rates among my top books... but not above, for e.g some of the following
'the blue nowhere'
'ender's game' series
'battlefield earth'
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i suggest everyone read this. it should be interesting how much was fiction and how much was true...
It's hush-hush, so I can't actually mention it's name on these forums.
<a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-3202766-2855114#reader-link' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425...114#reader-link</a>
And to anyone that sees what it is, you and I both know you're obligated as a tin-foil-hat wearing member of the internet to never mention its name aloud.
rates among my top books... but not above, for e.g some of the following
'ender's game' series
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Right on, one of my favorites too.
My college roomate has the DaVinci Code on tape. He listens to it evey time he drives down to San Diego (a 6 hour drive at least).
edit: yeah javert, i love it.. have read it a few times over, but not the entire series... only e-books [shh <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->]
I looked at the Da Vinci code but got Prey instead.
Holy god Prey's good....
or maybe that was the movie 'outbreak'.... argh no im confused. im pretty sure it was a book by the author of 'prey' haha
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Let's ruin more books!
....
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It's hush-hush, so I can't actually mention it's name on these forums.
<a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-3202766-2855114#reader-link' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425...114#reader-link</a>
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You confuse and intrigue me.
eediot: That was The Andromeda Strain
And according to the little bit of googling I did, Opus Dai was founded in 1928 and the Priory of Sion was founded in the 1950's by Pierre Plantard who was born in 1920. Leonardo Da Vinci died in 1519 though, I am not sure how that is explained <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It's hush-hush, so I can't actually mention it's name on these forums.
<a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-3202766-2855114#reader-link' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425...114#reader-link</a>
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Wha?
Whats wrong with . . . ?
Explain? Please?
Prey seems far to unrealistic compared to the others (yes...even the dinosaurs). It's trying to hard to be theatrical. Still better than a lot of books, but I don't think it's overly good.
Isaac Asimov also has good books (as does HG Wells, but those start to not seem as realistic if you're looking for 'plausible things that really could happen', because Wells is from the early 20th century area, before most high tech physics and stuff.
It's hush-hush, so I can't actually mention it's name on these forums.
<a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-3202766-2855114#reader-link' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425...114#reader-link</a>
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Wha?
Whats wrong with . . . ?
Explain? Please? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, explain....?
I looked at the Da Vinci code but got Prey instead.
Holy god Prey's good....
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dude me too when i went to az a month ago i needed a book i couldnt put prey dont it was so fruggin cool. im just waiting for davinci code to come out on paperback
plus golden number/ratio = 1.6 with a bunch of numbers after it
Hyperion
'Nuff said. Go read it, or suffer death and humiliation. Not in that order.
The only reason you couldn't put it down was because of straightforward shoving your face into the simple fact that you don't know this detail and you're going to have to keep reading to get that detail. Sure that got me to, doesn't make it a good book, actually a very poor one.
What annoys me the most is that people actually took most of what was presented as true and don't even look to the sources he sites and note that just about everything is speculation about missing parts. It's a work of fiction, the author presents it as a work of fiction but people want to believe it anyway.
that's enough ranting from me, so I'm out.
It's hush-hush, so I can't actually mention it's name on these forums.
<a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-3202766-2855114#reader-link' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375800425...114#reader-link</a>
And to anyone that sees what it is, you and I both know you're obligated as a tin-foil-hat wearing member of the internet to never mention its name aloud. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wha?
Whats wrong with . . . ?
Explain? Please? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, explain....? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh, I guess nobody told you guys. I've already said too much.
So why hasnt The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy been mentioned yet?
I looked at the Da Vinci code but got Prey instead.
Holy god Prey's good....
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dude me too when i went to az a month ago i needed a book i couldnt put prey dont it was so fruggin cool. im just waiting for davinci code to come out on paperback
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Paperback is what i got....
Bought it in the carribean... WOO HOO... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
~Jason