Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)

Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) by sevensor on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:10PM (#42914496)

I’m convinced Dan Brown read Foucault’s Pendulum and thought “cool idea, I’ll write two dozen sequels where the Plan is real and nobody is punished for their epistemological sins. Also what the hell is a semiotician? My hero will be a Symbologist!”

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Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) by razakel on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:11AM (#42916372)

Umberto Eco claimed that Dan Brown was a character he invented.

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Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) by sevensor on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:43AM (#42916912)

Beautiful

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Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) by ttepasse on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:06AM (#42919599)

I'm pretty much convinced that Brown cribbed his Da Vinci Code from a pulpy 80s book, this one. Annoyingly the authors didn't win their copyright case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Gr...

I remember reading it in the 90s and being very put off by the insanity and lack of logic. As it later turned out: The conspiracy theory of HBHG and DVC was in the end invented by a French document forger who in his own forgery seemed to be the last merovingian king/descendent of Christ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Plantard

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