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The DayDreamer And The DaVinci Code

Published May 30th, 2006 in , .

Well, it finally happened. (Seems to be happening a lot lately… what the hell is going on!) After years of avoiding Dan Brown’s pulp novel The DaVinci Code something amazing happened. A copy of my very own sits by my bed waiting for me to begin reading. Now, I know that I lot of you may be picking yourselves up from the floor right now going WTF? I had rebelled against reading it for a long, long time. Why? I guess I was rebelling against the popularity… a turn off my little world. That and the sneaking suspicision the book wasn’t actually all it was hyped up to be. Couple with the fact the book was being passed off as psuedo history. The current degree I’m doing originally began with me doing a history major, before I switched over to politics. However, I still have a great love for history and am very protective of it. This may be more the fault of the mass media than Dan Brown, but hey! I never said that this was logical! I am afterall, a mass of contradictions.

So after all that, how did I end up with a copy sitting by my bed waiting to be read? (That rhymes!) You see, the DayDreamer met a girl. It is amazing what the lure of sex will make one do. To cut a long story short, I somewhat foolishly agreed to read the book if she bought me a copy. One business trip to New Zealand later, and hey presto! A duty-free copy of The DaVinci Code to call my own. Has this opened a can of worms? You better believe it! Now everybody is telling about some other piece of gob-shitethat Brown has written. “You’ll love it” they all say. “It’s much better than The DaVinci Code”. Pigs arse! It left some of my friends impressed though, that somehad had finally gotten me to actually read it. Will I enjoy the book? The real question is… will I admit it even if I do? Not bloody likely! I’ve joked about a ceremonial book burning once I’ve finished, but I doubt that will happen. However once I’m done, Fi, you know that means we have to play monopoly!

If the hype of The DaVinci Code is all getting too much… then check the DaVinci Cup from the guys behind Pizza. Pauly seeks out the secret Circle Society and conspricacy behind DaVinci’s code and the rigging of the World Cup. Worth watching just for the sexy medieval chicks. According to AnnMaree Bellman from The Age, “it’s no less ridiculous than Dan Brown’s book, and there is more spontaniety (and gratuitous orgies)”. Very funny! Airs Monday nights on SBS in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup 2006.

8 Responses to “The DayDreamer And The DaVinci Code”

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1 Oz May 30th, 2006 at 22:55

Fact of the matter remains - Angels and Demons is a far better STORY than The DaVinci Code. Disregard the popular history feel and the historical deiscrepancies (despite what Dan Brown claims). Take it with a grain of salt if you wish to regard it historical commentry.

Whilst being a history fan myself and having studied at a tertiary level, I have also taken religious history studies in my time. It is these studies that make me appreciate where The DaVinci Code tries to come from. To assume the ‘history’ presented by the Catholic Church is not sanitised is naive. In the same vein, a conspiracy theory with such wide ranging implications, whilst somewhat possible, is most improbable. But don’t get me started on the vagries interpretation to be found within religion…
2 Dee Jun 5th, 2006 at 18:53

Well shite! I’ll be! *picks jaw up off ground* How the internet now provides family with useful information…so when does one meet this “fi”!?!
3 Princess Jun 13th, 2006 at 15:21

What Fi wants you to share with the world is “so how do you like the book you’ve been dissing for the last xxx years anyway???” AND if the lure of sex is that easy to get you to read a book you have been avoiding on principal, how much fun am I likely to have with all your other principles??? : ) To easy babe… xx Shall we start on the Liberal Party next?
4 Dee Jun 14th, 2006 at 22:26

F*ck…he’s going to breed a labour party family…god help “The Dee”…Go Liberal!…it’s good for me!

God help one family and politics…tisk, tisk…
5 Princess Jun 16th, 2006 at 10:35

There will be no Labour voters amongst any children I breed, they will be blue blood Liberals all the way or they’re out of the will!!

The idea above is to use to the ‘lure of sex’ that has so easily changed the DayDreamer’s reading principles (I am currently working on getting him to read Harry Potter, just for the challenge factor…) to change his skewed political views - it’s a longshot, but worth a try I think…
6 Dee Jun 20th, 2006 at 01:07

Hehe…I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that household…I lived under the roof of an avid labour man and the exact opposite in a democrat…me being a liberal…what fun!

At least you’re a “liberal” girl Good stuff…Sex and “The Daydreamer” in one sentence I prefer not to even comtemplate! I’ll leave that one to you.

Btw…nothing wrong with Harry Potter!