To: DustyMoment
Dan Brown doesn't claim that the Da Vinci Code is anything but a work of fiction - it is the Vatican and the Catholic Church that gives credibility to the plot by arguing that it never happened. Brown doesn't claim otherwise.
For cryin' out loud, Brown has done nothing but claim otherwise.
When appearing on "The Today Show," host Matt Lauer asked him, "How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?" Dan Brown responded: "Absolutely all of it. Obviously, there are - Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact."
Similarly, in an interview with "Good Morning America" when asked: "if you were writing it as a nonfiction book, how would it have been different?" Dan Brown responded: "I dont think it would have. I began the research for The Da Vinci Code as a skeptic. I entirely expected, as I researched the book, to disprove this theory, and after numerous trips to Europe and two years of research, I really became a believer."
... In that interview he reiterates his belief in the book's historic value: "When I started researching Da Vinci Code, I really was skeptical and I expected on some level to disprove all this history that is unearthed in the book and after three trips to Paris and a lot of interviews, I became a believer
"http://www.tfp.org/davincicode/meet_the_real_dan_brown.htm
To: irishjuggler
For cryin' out loud, Brown has done nothing but claim otherwise. Really??? Show me where Brown has claimed the plot of his novel ACTUALLY happened. I'll wait.
To: irishjuggler
You answered your own response:
For cryin' out loud, Brown has done nothing but claim otherwise. When appearing on "The Today Show," host Matt Lauer asked him, "How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?" Dan Brown
responded: "Absolutely all of it. Obviously, there are - Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact."
Nowhere in there does he say that the plot is factual, just the parts of the story that make the plot come to life.
168 posted on
05/08/2006 4:07:11 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
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