Re:The World According to Dan Brown
by WillPostForFood on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:48PM
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Does he present it as fact? The books are marked fiction, does he have additional responsibility beyond that? It is pretty easy to separate the non-fact/conspiracy garbage that he uses to drive the plot from the facts/history he uses to build setting.
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> Does he present it as fact?
Yes. The book had an introductory page headlined "FACT:" that said "all descriptions of secret societies in this book are accurate", or words to that effect.
Yes. He has these capsules in his books in various places, separate from the story, where he calls out "facts" that are anything but.
I only read Da Vinci Code. To me it felt more like a propaganda piece for conspiracy theorists.
Re:The World According to Dan Brown
by DonaldFisk on Saturday September 30, 2017 @10:09PM
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I have avoided reading it (and watching the movie), but I have read about it, and it's full of historical conspiracy theories. (I was actually surprised it makes no mention of the Oak Island Money Pit.) Many of the conspiracies are debunked in this documentary by Tony Robinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtoP5nFhh4