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Post by Angaridatha on Sept 21, 2004 23:54:26 GMT -5
Have you read the Da Vinci Code? If you have not, you must. It's about conspiracy in the christian church and the original meaning of the holy grail. Fascinating suspense/mystery book.
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 22, 2004 12:00:26 GMT -5
yeah, it is such a good, but so is Angels and Demons...It makes you wonder how much the Church has changed just so it could have power!!!! maybe we should being a book club with discussion!!!!
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Post by roadsister02 on Sept 22, 2004 16:22:13 GMT -5
I have it, but I haven't started reading it yet. I will when I finish The Druids. I promise.
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Post by Angaridatha on Sept 24, 2004 21:32:16 GMT -5
The druids, good book? I need to find a copy of angels and demons so I can read it. But da vinci code- why would anyone be a supporter of the church after reading this book!?
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 24, 2004 22:01:58 GMT -5
I've got all of Dan Browns books...anyone want to borrow?
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Post by Hazel on Sept 25, 2004 21:33:30 GMT -5
yes please, The Da Vinci Code is such an awesome book I must read his others.
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 25, 2004 23:12:52 GMT -5
sure I'll bring it on Wednesday
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 27, 2004 19:27:31 GMT -5
Partial Bibliography for THE DA VINCI CODE The History of the Knights Templars --Charles G. Addison Rosslyn: Guardians of the Secret of the Holy Grail --Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins The Woman With The Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail --Margaret Starbird The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ --Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine --Margaret Starbird Holy Blood, Holy Grail. --Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln The Search for the Holy Grail and the Precious Blood --Deike Begg The Messianic Legacy --Michael Baigent The Knights Templar and their Myth --Peter Partner The Dead Sea Bible. The Oldest Known Bible --Martin G. Abegg The Dead Sea Deception --Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh The Nag Hammadi Library in English --James M. Robinson Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians --Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy When God was a Woman --Merlin Stone The Chalice and the Blade. Our History, our Future --Riane Eisler Born in Blood --John J. Robinson The Malleus Maleficarum --Heinrich Kramer & James Sprenger The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci --Leonardo da Vinci Prophecies --Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist --Otto Letze Leonardo: The Artist and the Man --Serge Bramly, Sian Reynolds Their Kingdom Come: Inside the secret world of Opus Dei --Robert A. Hutchison Beyond the Threshold: A Life in Opus Dei --Maria Del Carmen Tapia The Pope's Armada: Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious and Powerful New Sects in the Church --Gordon Urguhart Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Secret Society Struggling for Power Within the Roman Catholic Church --Michael Walsh I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture --Carter Wiseman Conversations With I. M. Pei: Light Is the Key --Gero Von Boehm www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/resources.html
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Post by Angaridatha on Sept 27, 2004 23:54:22 GMT -5
yes, after this weekend I should have angels and demons and some of the books you mentioned on that list, I'm definitely going to start research on the knights templar, opus dei, and the truth about christianity. One more piece of the puzzle, we're working towards the truth.
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Post by roadsister02 on Oct 24, 2004 16:34:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I finished Da Vinci Code during Fall Break. Wasn't too impressed with it. As a Catholic, I can understand why the Vatican disliked it so. As a book critic, the denoumont was lacking & small compared to similar books *cough*Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child*cough* & ended rather too abruptly. Oh, yeah, & the whole interusage of Catholic & Xian would definitely offend most Caths I know. Overall, the book was lacking. I give it 2 stars on the Rolling Stone scale of 5.
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Post by Hazel on Oct 28, 2004 0:29:48 GMT -5
I can understand the controversy, but I just liked it as a general book and loved the spin at the end. It was an excellent detective story.
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Post by kraehe on Jan 7, 2005 1:13:18 GMT -5
I *loved* The Da Vinci Code. I have heard that there are a whole lot of inaccuracies, and artistic license was most certainly a factor, but the whole plot was genius. It actually made me take a big interest in Leonardo Da Vinci. I had no idea he was such a controversy in his own time. A man after my own heart! My sister actually visited the Rosslyn Chapel (or is it a temple...it's been a few months since I've read the thing...) and took a bunch of pictures. I cannot WAIT to see them. So yeah, good book. I've read Deception Point and Digital Fortress too, and while they were okay, they couldn't hold a candle to The Da Vinci Code.
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Post by Angaridatha on Jan 10, 2005 2:07:19 GMT -5
Have you read angels and demons? i think it's almost as good as the da vinci code. It's about the illuminata.
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Post by kraehe on Jan 10, 2005 18:52:55 GMT -5
I bought Angels and Demons, but haven't had a chance to read it yet. (I got a bajillion books for Christmas!) It definitely sounds worth reading.
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Post by roadsister02 on Mar 21, 2005 17:34:56 GMT -5
Unfortunately Dan Brown kinda sorta skewed the facts when he said that Mary Magdalene was pushed aside by the Roman Catholic Church & forgotten... slightly not true. She was actually given *sainthood* by the papacy very early on in the church's history. The only reason I know this is because in the Catholic Last Rites & Exorcism she is mentioned in the list of saints to which we pray. So, yeah, further proof that even if a book is well researched & claims to hold some truth... well, you can't believe everything you read can you?
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