How can Ian McKellen lower himself to being associated with such utter drivel? The Da Vinci Code may not be the worst book ever written but it's certainly the worst I've ever read. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's actually worse than his other books.
>>worse than his other books Have you tried them all too? I extend my sincere commiserations to you. the_mendicant has gobbled them up, and I'vetried a few in the vain hope of seeing if there was actually a spark of originality or decent writing in them. Alas!
Do you think he is one man or actually a computer experiment that has been unleashed on the publishing world. Surely a real writer/publisher would never write in such a formulaic way?
Ian Mckellan could probably pull anything off, IMO, but I do agree he is not Sir Liegh as described int he book... but then, when has that stopped film adaptations?
Da Vinci code is a generic Robert Ludlum/Eric Lustbader style airport lounge thriller for people who are too tired to think.
Just replace Opus Dei with clandestine Nazi's infiltrating Europe/America/wherever & the 'Grail' with secret plans for world domination by cloned Hitlers or businessmen/politicians secretly adhering to fascism and you're away :)
I have only had the misfortune of reading 'Demons & Angels' and the 'Da Vinci Code'- however, I thought the description in The Times, that "...the Da Vinci Code makes Jeffrey Archer sound like Flaubert..." was perfectly apt :)
So you'll know just how hard it will be for me to *kill you* :oP
You give me no choice - first you ruin McKellen for me with his *knob* and now the hobbits - well more specifically Elijah whom I always considered impartial to hobbit debauchery....
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Date: 18/5/05 12:00 pm (UTC)I can't think of anyone else tbh, though!
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Date: 18/5/05 12:07 pm (UTC)Have you tried them all too? I extend my sincere commiserations to you.
Whereas is delighfully silly.
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Date: 18/5/05 12:16 pm (UTC)Audrey Tautou, Maybe, I don't actually know who she is.
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Date: 18/5/05 12:32 pm (UTC)As for McKellen lowering himself, he's guesting in 'Coronation Street'! Yeuk.
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Date: 18/5/05 12:33 pm (UTC)Yes, they are.
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Date: 18/5/05 12:38 pm (UTC)*slash warning* ? ;@)
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Date: 18/5/05 12:55 pm (UTC)Ian Mckellan could probably pull anything off, IMO, but I do agree he is not Sir Liegh as described int he book... but then, when has that stopped film adaptations?
Nathan, the Toxic Pixie
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Date: 18/5/05 12:57 pm (UTC)Da Vinci code is a generic Robert Ludlum/Eric Lustbader style airport lounge thriller for people who are too tired to think.
Just replace Opus Dei with clandestine Nazi's infiltrating Europe/America/wherever & the 'Grail' with secret plans for world domination by cloned Hitlers or businessmen/politicians secretly adhering to fascism and you're away :)
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Date: 18/5/05 01:05 pm (UTC)*shudders at images*
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Date: 18/5/05 01:35 pm (UTC)I think you'll find that it is.
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Date: 18/5/05 02:26 pm (UTC)But it was all their fault :o)
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Date: 18/5/05 03:42 pm (UTC)now that is getting seriously dodgy...
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Date: 18/5/05 05:40 pm (UTC)Before I saw it though it never occurred to me that Jean Reno would do comedy :o)
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Date: 18/5/05 05:42 pm (UTC)But come on - 4 hobbits who *always* seek adventure together - that was just asking for it!
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Date: 18/5/05 08:16 pm (UTC)Coming back to McKellen, have you ever heard the Discworld song "A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob on the End"? ;oP
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Date: 18/5/05 09:33 pm (UTC)So you'll know just how hard it will be for me to *kill you* :oP
You give me no choice - first you ruin McKellen for me with his *knob* and now the hobbits - well more specifically Elijah whom I always considered impartial to hobbit debauchery....
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Date: 19/5/05 09:30 am (UTC)I wonder if it will cause teh same outcry?