mmmmm.....you said "Illuminati".....

(signed, complete and total "Illuminatus Trilogy" freak over her)

I have that book. Well, it's on a friend's bookshelf right now, but I read that book so many times in college. I tried to read it on acid once, in the mistaken assumption that I would get clued in to some scret code or something, but instead I just read the same page about 15 times.

Signed, Can Only Not Read on Acid or In Cars.

Signed, Can Only Not Read on Acid or In Cars.

I think we may have been separated at birth on this one.

What are you reading, Jesse?

I am currently looking forward to a stack of vacation reading, including two Pelecanos and I forget what else. Also probably cheesy magazines.

I'm with Skyzy on The DaVinci Code. It had some interesting ideas but was ruined by bad structure, bad dialogue, and a major plot twist that was far too predictable.

They're planning to make a movie out of The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code irritated me muchly. So much so that I didn't care if any of the ideas had anything to back them up.

The Da Vinci Code irritated me muchly. So much so that I didn't care if any of the ideas had anything to back them up.

I especially was irritated with the historical inaccuracies. Part of the bad thing about being an almost history major is that anything that isn't accurate, I notice.

I especially was irritated with the historical inaccuracies. Part of the bad thing about being an almost history major is that anything that isn't accurate, I notice.

As a former medieval history tutor, I haven't dared read the thing. I'm afraid my head would explode.

Coming in way late to the party, I finally read Weaver.

Deb, this was such a beautiful book. I was really blown away by how dense it is (in a good way). When I picked it up, I thought, "Hm, fewer than 200 pages. I'll have it finished in a day." But I just couldn't read it that fast. I was putting it down at every break to both process and savor all the information you had put in. It seemed like you picked each word to convey the maximum amount of information possible. I wish I could explain it better.

I loved the story and the characters. If I try to go on anymore, I'll just gush everywhere and make a mess. I really loved it.

Is there any recording of the music available? I'm not that familiar with traditional music, although I used to listen to my dad's Peter, Paul & Mary albums when I was a kid. I have loved the little bits of traditional music I've heard, and I think I may need to start investigating it further.

I don't know enough about history to notice anything other than a few historical inaccuracies, but the whole structure of DaVinci Code drove me nuts. Way too many obvious misdirects, way too much time spent on useless stuff, way too obvious a "twist" at the end is it still a twist if it's something that's introduced as a possibility about 20 pages in and then dismissed with an "explanation" that a five-year-old could find holes in, then introduced again 20 pages from the end as if it's an entirely new idea that no one had ever considered? Also, the way that the first 20 or so chapters ended with something like, "He knew the answer to her questions, but that would have to wait until later..." I'm fine with suspense, I'm fine with the characters having more information than the reader. But the author taunting the reading with information like that is just annoying. Once is fine. By the time it had happened 20 times, I'd figured out most of what it was, and the "big reveal" wasn't terribly interesting at all.