Apr 21
Da Vinci Code best book?
What sort of judging panel could name The Da Vinci Code “best book”? A million other people have written about it being a badly written book, filled with rubbish, so I won’t repeat all that here. Seriously, though, the Da Vinci Code is not even a good book, let alone the best book.
And for the BBC News site to refer to it as “quasi-historical” is further evidence that the Beeb really should rein in some of their online hacks, whose eagerness to believe other people’s flights of fancy are often highlighted by Ray Girvan. Perhaps “faux-historical” would have been better.
April 21st, 2005 at 1:16 pm
It’s sold 2.5 million copies! Da vinci code winning in the WH Smith awards is the equivilent of smash hits giving busted the ‘best band’ award, neither has much credibility but it’s not a suprising result.
?5 on Harry Potter and the half blood prince winning next year
fizz
April 21st, 2005 at 1:19 pm
It’s a great book! Don’t be so miserable. It’s not nearly as bad as Lord of the Rings winning that BBC big read thing a couple of years ago.
May 16th, 2005 at 2:48 am
faith_in_humanity–;
Dan Brown’s a serious hack - frighteningly deluded about his talents and intellect. He should be put out of our misery
Best bit on the page: “Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year”. You know it’s going to be a weighty tome with life-changing properties if those two cerebral behemoths were impressed.