Sullied
I admit, with prodding, to have read one of Dan Brown's books -- not the Da Vinci Code, the other one with "angels" in the title; can't remember.
Even though I read the book on a 17 hour non-stop flight, it was still a painful experience. Indeed, an experience that left me feeling sullied clean through to my stitched bindings. The book sucks on each and every level I can think of. Even the shimmer of redemption in the man's ability to build some suspense is bollocksed by the fact he uses the device each and every chapter -- whether 5 lines or 15 pages long.
I grant authors grow and his next novel may be of greater value to the reader or the sellers of ink. But there is growth and then there is an author being kidnapped by aliens in the night and replaced with someone who can write. My doubt remains such I shan't go near the man's work again.
A colleague at work mentioned during one of my rants last year about having lost something fundamental in my soul in my reading Brown that the book did represent one of the finest movie treatments he'd ever seen. And dammit, he's right. The book shows nothing, tells all -- and what we need are visuals (forgetting the crap, er, fault lines in the plot and its facts, er, details). I can't help think if Brown was a screenwriter all of his movies would be tell all, show nothing, but I digress.
And thus it was I saw today the first full trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/da_vinci_code/) for The DaVinci Code, Ron Howard's cinematic take of the book, which (the book does) continues to defy proper taste by remaining on best seller lists for, well, supernaturally long periods of time, and by doing so proving again the masses are fuckwads.
And from the trailer, the movie I conclude is going to be a truly excellent ride of entertainment. I didn't notice if Brown wrote the screenplay -- gawd help each and everyone of us if he did -- but it looks like his novel will indeed prove to be an awfully long, but jolly good movie treatment.
Even though I read the book on a 17 hour non-stop flight, it was still a painful experience. Indeed, an experience that left me feeling sullied clean through to my stitched bindings. The book sucks on each and every level I can think of. Even the shimmer of redemption in the man's ability to build some suspense is bollocksed by the fact he uses the device each and every chapter -- whether 5 lines or 15 pages long.
I grant authors grow and his next novel may be of greater value to the reader or the sellers of ink. But there is growth and then there is an author being kidnapped by aliens in the night and replaced with someone who can write. My doubt remains such I shan't go near the man's work again.
A colleague at work mentioned during one of my rants last year about having lost something fundamental in my soul in my reading Brown that the book did represent one of the finest movie treatments he'd ever seen. And dammit, he's right. The book shows nothing, tells all -- and what we need are visuals (forgetting the crap, er, fault lines in the plot and its facts, er, details). I can't help think if Brown was a screenwriter all of his movies would be tell all, show nothing, but I digress.
And thus it was I saw today the first full trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/da_vinci_code/) for The DaVinci Code, Ron Howard's cinematic take of the book, which (the book does) continues to defy proper taste by remaining on best seller lists for, well, supernaturally long periods of time, and by doing so proving again the masses are fuckwads.
And from the trailer, the movie I conclude is going to be a truly excellent ride of entertainment. I didn't notice if Brown wrote the screenplay -- gawd help each and everyone of us if he did -- but it looks like his novel will indeed prove to be an awfully long, but jolly good movie treatment.
posted by Heipel at
1:40 PM
3 Comments:
I read the Da Vinci Code and thought it was brilliant. that is, brilliant like staring into an eclispse until you go blind. I've never felt such compulsion to blind myself with a blunt object after reading that, er... movie summary. Entertaining, like being a passive couch potato, the book is brilliantly bad. People, please stop buying it. Just get the real movie version at pacific mall.
i haven't read that book..but..
anyway...trailer looks good..haha..
Oh my, Joe, what a great idea. If I buy the bootleg version Brown might receive less cash...
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