The Da Vinci Job

[altariel]

Oh man! I just checked back on the cast list for The Da Vinci Job Code, and Paul Bettany has been cast as Silas the albino killer monk!

Can't wait to see him act this bit:

"Andorra, he thought feeling his muscles tighten. Incredibly, it was in that barren and forsaken suzerain between Spain and France, shivering in his stone cell, wanting only to die, that Silas had been saved."

That's made my morning, that has. Ah, Andorra! Why did I ever leave?

Comments

[aervir.livejournal.com]

What a lovely, lovely rant! But it is really more than Dan Brown deserves; I think you have put more intellectual energy into tearing his book to pieces than he did into writing his complete oeuvre.

I actually found the Da Vinci Code rather funny. But then I am very easily amused and have a penchant not only for B-movies and brainless blockbusters, but also for silly popular fiction with lots of bad prose. :)

Just out of sheer curiosity: Are you especially interested in Roswitha von Gandersheim? Or why that particular name for your RL blog?

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

That's true, I'm very ashamed of myself for being so childish. But I had such a good time writing that rant that I just switched the 'ironic' button off and let myself go. I should stop listening to so much 80s U2, they're making me over-serious.

And I'm so glad you live for brainless blockbusters too! Squeals the girl who has read every Jeffrey Archer book in existence. Well, almost every one.

I don't know much about her beyond what I learnt in English Lit 101, which is that it was through her diaries that people even found out that people in Europe were still reading Plautus and Terence. I'm certainly no expert on her work. Are you a fan?

[aervir.livejournal.com]

And I'm so glad you live for brainless blockbusters too!

Only for those with shiny production design, lots of fighting, tons of historical inaccuracies and more or less handsome guys.

Squeals the girl who has read every Jeffrey Archer book in existence.

Hey, that's a literacy crime I haven't committed yet. :) I dumped a lot of stuff by Bernard Cornwell and Minette Walters at OxFam yesterday, though, when I was packing and doing a book purge. Now, why do these confessions almost feel like a meeting of "Bad Fiction Readers Anonymous"? :D

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

But but but - I thought Cornwell was acceptable? I've read one book out of his Arthurian trilogy and liked it very much indeed. Has he committed crimes against literature otherwise?

The Da Vinci code is inspiring me to fic. I have this plotbunny in which a modern day Milton, the Cleverest Man In The World, reads it - and goes blind.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Da Vinci code is inspiring me to fic. I have this plotbunny in which a modern day Milton, the Cleverest Man In The World, reads it - and goes blind.

You just made me spit my lunch on my monitor. No cookie!

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

"Out, out, swine dastardly man-strumpet! You're making the rest of us Bible ficcers look stupid!!"

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*more food hits monitor*

[aervir.livejournal.com]

But but but - I thought Cornwell was acceptable? I've read one book out of his Arthurian trilogy and liked it very much indeed.

Oh, the Arthurian Cornwell is good. Much better than Marion Zimmer Bradley or Stephen Lawhead, IMHO.

Has he committed crimes against literature otherwise?

Oh yes, he has! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006510426/qid=1119016049/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_2_11/202-9679939-3036608) :D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

No worries - I'm enjoying reading it!