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Codebreakers rack their brains to solve Dan Brown's new poser
London Times ^
| 1/2/06
| Ben Hoyle
Posted on 01/02/2006 12:55:51 PM PST by wagglebee
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To: Sacajaweau
FHC stands for: "Fosseus Habitus Comenglus" which loosely translates to: "The Skull and Bones Society".
I think.
And Buuuuush is one of those, as is Kaaaarl Roooooove....:)
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:47:11 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: badpacifist
Just a reminder .....Dan Brown ...writer of FICTION.According to Dan Brown, his novels are essentially factual dramatizations of real historical events.
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:48:21 PM PST
by
frgoff
To: Sacajaweau
Course, I have to be careful about giving away the secrets over here...there could be a mass run off of a cliff over in DU if I do it correctly!
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:48:56 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: rlmorel
"...kind of like the same people who thought that Oliver Stone's "JFK" was a documentary." What? It wasn't? What are you trying to say here?
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:49:17 PM PST
by
Robwin
To: teenyelliott
Me think you and Lizavetta should stick to "The lone Ranger" and the "Roadrunner" and leave Dan Brown's writing to us that like good mystery and conspiracy writing.
I got all of Dan Brown's books and will likely buy the next one to
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:03:41 PM PST
by
munin
( I support the war on Muslim terror and GWB)
To: munin
Oh, nice. I think his writing is very boiler plate, so you tell me to read the Roadrunner.
Perhaps I read more than you do, and recognize crap when I see it.
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:06:22 PM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Sacajaweau
.....
The publisher says the clues are already out there ? on the cover of The Da Vinci Code Uh,......the 'Table' is really a 'bingo' table.....
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:07:50 PM PST
by
maestro
To: wagglebee
Looks like Brown has just "Fictionalized"
The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas this go-round...how original
Next up will be Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods or maybe he'll re-write The Templar's Secret Island by Henry Lincoln.
This guy has quite a racket going. There is certainly plenty of source material to pull from. Can't wait until he works Oak Island, Rennes-le-Château, Bérenger Saunière, Visigothic treasure troves and maybe even the discovery of the Ark during Timkat in Ethiopia....Should be good for at least ten more volumes, I would think.
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:20:43 PM PST
by
Range Rover
(Kerry is STILL a Fraud...Rather is the Court Jester)
To: munin
...and leave Dan Brown's writing to us that like good mystery and conspiracy writing. You could easily make the case that Brown is a good to excellent storyteller, but he is an atrocious writer. The writing in The Da Vinci Code was so awful, I found myself alternately laughing and weeping as I moved from page to page. Dan Brown is many things, but he is NOT a good writer.
To: Robwin
LOL!
You want to hear a funny one...my wife and I went to see "Apollo 13" when it came out a few years back...as we were leaving the theater, there was a young couple in front of us, and the young gal turned to the guy and said: "I'm really glad the movie ended like that..."
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:29:37 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: wagglebee
Okay, I have my DVC right here . . . all it has on the cover is "The Da Vinci Code," "Dan Brown," "Author of Angels & Demons," part of the Mona Lisa's face, and some script that (if I know my Tolkien, and believe y'all me, I do know my Tolkien) looks to be Elvish.
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:31:32 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: rlmorel
I realize it is fiction but I couldn't get through the book because I thought it was so lame. I wish I had liked his writing.
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:33:42 PM PST
by
ruoflaw
To: teenyelliott
I think his writing is very boiler plateCalling it boiler plate is kind. It's offal. I'm shuddering just thinking about it.
To: Mordacious
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posted on
01/02/2006 2:34:39 PM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Lizavetta
I just ordered it at the library. Was it good?
To: mnehrling
Dan Brown isn't a bad author as long as you take his writing as the fiction it is.. the problem is too many people take his books seriously. Dan Brown is a great author, as evidenced by how entertaining his works are and by their success. Only an idiot, who is incapable or unwilling to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction, would "take his books seriously" in any way other than as entertainment.
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:18:08 PM PST
by
PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
(How long do we have to pretend that the vast majority of Democrats are patriots?)
To: wagglebee
I thought "Angels and Demons" was better than "The Da Vinci Code".
Both books are works of fiction and nothing else.
I still feel better after reading anything that Vince Flynn pens. Mitch Rapp is the man.
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:24:59 PM PST
by
old_sage_says
(Reading FreeRepublic each day is as normal to me as my "morning constitutional".)
To: Xenalyte
If you are looking at the script on the "torn" section of the Mona Lisa, it's merely reverse writing in a pleasant longhand. Hold it up to a mirror for legibility.
The DVC is a pleasant airport book. But it should not in any way be taken seriously. Though the author rightfully classifies it as fiction, he unforgivably cited falsehoods as fact.
For example; The so-called Priory of Sion is a huge falsehood presented as fact immediately following the second title page. This "Fact" page claims the Priory of Sion is real. The DVC is built around the Priory of Sion's existence. Yet the Priory of Sion was a latter half 20th Century hoax perpetrated by a forger. He was caught in the act and confessed to such in French court. Any cursory research would have revealed this to Dan Brown.
So, the DVC is a fun read but in no way a source of "light".
Enjoy.
To: rlmorel
Well, wouldn't that be interesting if it translated into that. I took four years of Latin but 40 years later, the mind is dim. I'll go to the Library though.
The snitch Mason, Mr. Morgan, is buried in a cemetery near me. Pure politics at that time. Someone once told me that the Masons were attached somehow to the Shriners. Does that make sense?
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:08:45 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: teenyelliott
I'll wait for the paperback version. Or maybe used at amazon.
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