Da Vinci Code: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive) 

Hahahaha! I still rant about this shit book, so I think this is exactly what has happened 😂

Just think of the poor corperate lawyers who had to reread The Da Vinci Code to make sure nothing he said was wrong enough to warrent another lawsuit... They are the real victims here!

Next web exclusive : Dan Gurewitch monologuing about how dogecoins are still totally cool you guys.

after 18 years of persistent nagging they finally gave in

To be honest if you think to hard about any movie it can be completely destroyed, not saying some are not worse then others but when I go to watch a movie I generally try to turn my brain off and enjoy the movie as is, that is just me and then later I watch the pitch meeting and cinemasins tear the movie a new one lol.

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Oh if he got this detailed on a movie I liked I'd cry and laugh, I'd craugh. Okay fk it yeah I'd love a series of that too :P

CinemaSins crossover? I want them to obliterate "The Fast and Furious" franchise.

I see the exact same comment 2 comments down made 3 hours before you dude

I miss him on “The Bugle,” where he did just that.

One has to wonder if The History Channel might not have spiraled into utter idiocy quite as quickly had this book not existed

@@Magmafrost13 It would explain so much.

@@Magmafrost13 No they probably would have the History Channel was well on its way to insanity even before this they were well into the secret Nazi conspiracy stuff which is a straight line to Ancient Aliens.

It is just like after Watergate, any kind of government "scandal" has to have -gate added onto it. Monica-gate, Trump-gate, Deflate-gate and so on. It was called the Watergate scandal because it happened at the Watergate Hotel. But here is a wikipedia listing of scandals/conspiracies which become the -gate of the moment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_-gate_scandals_and_controversies

@@Magmafrost13 Perhaps there's logic in your argument, a code of sorts.

YEEEEESSSSS!

Maybe have Stephen Colbert as special guest for the LoTR episode

I'd watch.

IKR!!!

need him to review succession so bad

Thats just John cutting to the heart of Gen Z Humor

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🤣🤣🤣 I laughed so hard at this then started cackling as John lost his shit with the riddle.

I almost peed myself

@BIBLEDEFENDER144 - *Why are you spamming this innocent comment section? Why can't you just TYPE what you want to say?*

I feel the same about Twilight - different genre but equally stupid... Vampires are killers and don't f-ing glitter in sunlight! (But my sister loves it! Ugh)

If you REALLY want to piss your dad off, get him to read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," the (for lack of a better term) source material from which Brown worked.

@@fanmagicks "If it glitters...stake it."

I bought this book for my best friend's husband and read it the night before I gave it to him. Weeks later he was telling me how much he loved it, while we were seated at a table with a group of his friends. I preceded to tell him how simplistic the writing was, that the characterization were just sketches of people and reading it felt like some sort of torture, for it holds your attention just enough and that you hate yourself for continuing to turn the pages. He was pretty pissed that I embarrassed him in front of his friends and I apologized. But, in my defense, that book is terrible.

Same! 😂🤣

Loved hearing the one audience member who caught that one!

Mere wordplay and yet..?!!

I agree with Disorganized Religion. That art throb joke got exactly 1 person laughing and I'm here for that

It's an orange!

@@DrunkJesus you're Jesus so I guess if anyone knows it's you.

Next week same time: John rant's about the distribution of area codes in the US. And I am all here for that :D

I would listen to him read the Shipping Forecast.

So, he can run for president

Me too. I'm all in.

Not me. This topic is near and dear to my heart. I hated and mocked this book when I was a teenager. He's almost stealing my thunder. I was so angry that I wanted my money back for that dumb green hardcover novel.

Stockholm syndrome lol

Underrated comment right here ladies n gentlemen.

Who do you think the audience is?

many, many comedians could do that

He just did.

I did. Classic RU-vid slide. First you hit it big with some passion project. Then you start doing book and movie reviews because it's easier to rant about. Then you get political. And finally you start live streaming let's plays in between quasi-monthly video essays about how you taught magpies to lockpick their way out of an escape room built into a hydraulic press.

@@strifera Holy shit. I wanted to start making RU-vid videos again, but haven’t been able to come up with a branding model. Thank you for laying it out for me so clearly.

I mean I expected them a little less from Dunkey; but honestly, we all know Ryan does it best.

SAME! 🍿

I second that wholeheartedly

What a waste of your time. Really the guy made millions, so while you slam your head you could be writing your own creative passages. And if people like it you will make millions too.

@@talco881 It is a sad statement on humanity that the most brain-dead nonsense generates so much money. I guess no one ever went broke treating people like morons. I eagerly await the asteroid that humanity deserves.

It won't open the lock because the Clue-Poem was in English. And the flesh of the Apple is white, not Rosy. Fooey, humbug.

@@dreamervanroom rosy SKIN....

Sour grapes...

Yes it does.

Justin Bieber knife fighting tips is the greatest article I’ve ever read.

Does this mean we may some day get a collab between Last Week Tonight and Some More News?

Wait, this is amazing!

APPEL is Dutch for apple.

Fun fact, in the Spanish dub of the movie they didn't use the Spanish word for apple "manzana" but the Latin "pomona", which makes sense, since Newton and other scientists wrote their research in Latin. It also somewhat excuses why people couldn't figure it out immediately, because even if you knew the term, you could be thrown off by using the wrong language. The Spanish dub made the scene way better than Dan Brown!!! Also he didn't spell it.

Yes but that's just an extra part of the puzzle. He was thinking appelle, the French for call. The book was mostly set in France, and in fact it was the fault of the French. Boom.

You, good sir/ma'am, are my hero

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Amen Kellie! I savor John's hilarious unquenchable annoyances.

This, with the fact that it's Monday cracks me up even more xD

It's only monday and I already know it's true.

You may already know about this, but I highly recommend checking out Tony Robinson's brilliant skewering of the "facts" behind the book. He explodes the sloppy research point by point. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uB5Zbr-CSFc.html

@Historical Book may I please ask for your opinion on Angels & Demons?

I liked the book and movie simply because it completely pissed off the religious right.

@Historical Book, "genius" sounds like a bit much. Students being more interested in art history sounds nice, but as a student who got swept up in all the DaVinci Code hype, I can say for a fact that it only increased my interest in controversial topics closely related to the book, and left me with a MORE distorted view of history. It basically led to me obsessing over conspiracy theories, and that was the same impression I got from others as well.

As a bibliophile who has a personal grudge against Dan Brown's works, I too thank him. Angels & Demon's climactic scene very nearly gave me an aneurysm. I finished it on an airplane ten minutes before landing and left it behind along with an empty snickers wrapper.

Cumtown's Klangers series is a similar- albeit incredibly crude- concept.

Starting with Snowpiercer. We only saw it because my wife chooses films based on popular opinion I can only guess are generated now by algorithyms for money.

I suggest you watch CinemaSins

...released decades ago

He should do Harry Potter

Never read the book but by “backwards writing” you don’t refer to the one in the vid right?

@@fabriziogonzales9719 In the book, the initial Codex is actually the outer layer of two nested Codexes, the inner of which is the one with the Apple solution. The outer Codex came with a wooden plaque that had the reversed writing carved into it, likely meaning it was intended to be used as a stamp to get the message on paper. The riddle Tom Hanks says in the clip is written on a piece of paper wrapped around the inner Codex.

You were an impressively critical thinker at the age of 12, Morning Dusk. Cheers. ;)

It's very well known that Da Vinci wrote that way and you're right not a very difficult puzzle

In your second sentence, you meant to say it RAISES the question. Don't use 'begs the question' as that has a whole other meaning and makes you look like you are uneducated to those that know the difference. Besides that, it took attention away from your main point. You don't want that to happen.

But that was not all. As he turned back to where he came, he spotted a part of the wall where nothing was. "That must have been where I entered from." he pondered. But could he possibly use this passageway as a means to leave the room? He took a single step towards the door. The sound of the floor was ever louder in his ears. He kept walking, as the passage grew larger with each step. d-o-o-r. He now realized that is what he was seeing. He stepped through as the emptiness seemed to pass through him, and exited the room with four walls, a floor, and a ceiling.

Up next: Robert Langdon cracks the code for which shape fits in the circular hole of Sophie Neveu’s play set.

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I know I have read too much Dan Brown when you and King have my dying laughing with your comments and tbh it is a sin you don't have more upvotes.

He looks away, then he looks back - now he's on a horse. 🐴

That's fucking hilarious.

I’m sorry but I love your friend 😂

Thanks, that gave me a good chuckle!

EPIC! 😆😂

Please tell your friend he is a legend.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I liked the books a lot... in middle school. Lol

It's 100% in the "Movies You Watch With Your Dad" genre. Other notable examples include The Mummy, National Treasure, Ocean's 11, Mission Impossible, and Indiana Jones. And the book is in a genre I like to call "books to read on a plane because it was for sale at the airport."

hehe, both my parents told me the book was amazing and I needed to read it... I do not know.. lol.. compared to what I was reading at the time it was a nice short read, sometimes that is great, I just did not like it much, seemed like it was written by a child ?.. hehehehe... sigh.. I did not mind it that much... I had no real thoughts about it whatsoever, it passed the time for a day I guess :D ... lol.. when the film came out, sigh.. I was working nonstop and people were still ranting about divinci code, got dragged to the cinema by my boss to watch it on what I guess was meant to be a double date.. hehehe.. I had a gf and the girl was cool, but I was so exhausted, barely spoke throughout the whole night, thinking and worried about my work hehehe... then all went to a bar later and everyone trying to find meanings in the film and the plot etc hehehe... remember them asking me about it, why I was so silent.. lol.. said emm, think I prefered the book, but that is not saying much... lol.. hehehe.. emmm.. none of them had thought to ask me before going to see it if I had bothered to read the book, lol.. it never occurred to me to mention it, assumed the whole world had for years... lol, were all shocked when they found out.. sigh... honestly I had been working and thinking and whatever for months without sleep hehe.. and still had a lot more work to do before dealines.. why would I care about the silly film ? :) edit: I had a gf that was not the beautiful girl he tried to set me up with hehehe.. lol.. people never think to ask me sometimes about even simple things like that.. lol.... the books and films I think that people love is because they let you turn your brain off, I do not hate them or get mad about them, have no feelings atall hehehe.. not everything has to be an impossible puzzle that only autistic idiots like me can solve :)

@@spookymunky1 Were you an accountant or auditor at that time? (I was an auditor for a large corp. Sometimes work deadline-fears crept into when we were supposed to be having fun after work.)

My dad never said anything about that book.

I think John Oliver is envious of Dan Brown, because he clearly pointed to the color green, which is the color of envy. Seeing green with envy. See, now I'll have to go to the Smithsonian to find a green art piece to find the next clue to this puzzle that'll eventually lead me to an ad banner for HBO Go.

And this is how you get an A in art school

no it's the missing umbrella... it's always the umbrella with the brits

Of course it’s the tie. You don’t have to state the obvious.

Damn beat me to it

I would pay good money to watch John Oliver talk about anything, including types of grass. Please talk about grass.

John Green (yes the writer) actually has a podcast episode where he talks about Kentucky Blue Grass for 15 minutes and then rates it. It's surprisingly interesting. If you wanna listen, the podcast is called The Anthropocene Reviewed.

@@miriagarnet I work in chemical lawncare application and now know what I'm listening to tomorrow during work.

True!

@@catiemooney9352 ah, we just found one of the 8 people in the world who'd pay for hbo max, then

I mean when he spelt apple I almost spit out my food and I'm still shocked that was in a "serious" movie

Me too!!!

Honestly, after Covid I thought the production hit the fan. But this, at least after the first few minutes, feels lot closer to their better stuff

Same here it's 0° in buffalo NY but this makes it so much better

He's the best!!!!! hahahahahaha

“Art history survey”………that’s a thing ? Sheesh !

I'm so sorry you have to gr-A-P-P-L-E wiith that 😔

People believing in stupid shit is pretty much standard, most of the world population believe in some kind of a god

@@emilyannearon6341 nice!

Yes, I love how some people seem to think Divinci was at the last supper taking a picture. Like a Monty Python sketch

That needs to be a meme ASAP

It's like he was going to go full Lewis Black for a minute there.

The look on his face

Woah spoiler alert ⚠️ 📢

I dream of becoming so successful that I can literally just go on camera, bitch about whatever I feel like and people will give me money. On a side note I love when John tantrums like a muppet. Just swinging his arm back and forth, yelling, knocking stuff off his desk. Totally reminds me of a muppet.

I know you are probably still very interested in this weird clip you wrote a random comment on a year ago. So fun-fact. Dan O'Brien is a writer on Last Week Tonight.

I thought he said "too old to remember" at first and died laughing because obv, it's dark. But I laughed even harder after I realised my mistake

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As someone born in 2002... phew

Oh boy yeah like how is this a non fiction geez object reality for some is too hard I guess xD

Was it non-fiction?! 😯

Oh, gods. I remember getting mobbed by a bunch of church fundamentalists who went nuts protesting this movie. Me and my friends had to literally shove our tickets in thier faces to prove to them that we had in fact *not* seen DaVinci Code and were instead laughing our butts off at Beerfest.

Sanctum Peter Cottium Deus in re unium hippitus hoppitus Deus Domine In suus via torreum Lepus in re sanctum hippitus hoppitus Reus Domine

Yeah. Truly the mermaids documentary of its time.

It would be super easy, barely an inconvenience!!!

Both of them also got two first names as their full name

Who the fuck is ryan george?

If you got the payday he did, you might have managed it yourself.

It just goes to show how much the world loves Tom Hanks that this didn't put a negative dent in his career lol

And all this time I thought Oliver was rickrolling us, while all along it was Hanks?

I think less of him for doing that movie. I had no idea. The reason this dumb book was popular is because it romanticizes religion with some shitty exoticism and glamour. 🤮🤑🤮

@@marshwetland3808 I don't think it's about it romanticizing religion so much as it actually questioned religion on a mainstream level.

I would pay to watch that series, seriously

I would watch the shit out of that show!

He has Daniel O'Brien on staff, who is essentially a walking pop culture encyclopedia, so it's doable.

Ooh, do 'The Celestine Prophecy' next!

up next: marvel films.

Someone else gets it!!!!!

not only that, but why the fuck would the code of the puzzlebox be in modern English? I'd understand Aramaic, Greek and even Latin, but fucking modern English? I have to correct myself, the puzzlebox was new and made by the guy that dies in the beginning, so the codeword should have been French, since a French man would NEVER use some other language EVER for anything in his life.

@@caligo7918 Clearly he intended for an American to solve it.

@@kilroy987 Clearly he intended for American genius, art-looker, and sex-haver Jonathan Langdon to solve it.

What if, instead of Amelie, the woman's name was Margaritte?

You poor dear. People where I worked at a simple blue collar job, were reading that huge book in wonder 🤔. When I saw the movie....😶😝💭. What? Couldn't imagine working in a book store when that came out! 😲🤭 I'm glad you survived. Do continue with your therapy. My heart ❤ goes out to you.

I worked at a branch library when the book was published. We bought--and lost --multiple copies, and bought more to keep up with the demand. I tried to recommend some of the books that looked at--and promoted--the same conspiracies, explaining that those were fringy and entertaining. Few took the offer. Mostly, I concluded, because there wasn't any popular hype for those books, and how could a reader talk with fiends about something unpopular.

If I ever get a time machine, I'll go to tell your 2003 self to smugly eat apples while you sell the books.

The book is always better than the movie.

I was 14 when i read it just before a trip to Rome... It was the first time I was actually interested in old churches and architecture. It gave me a whole different perspective. So I liked it and got most out of it...

Yeah, after TDC they get worse and completely forgettable. I literally forgot about "Inferno" (couldn't even remember the book's title), and the one called "The Last Symbol" was atrocious too. Apparently there's been another book as well, but the decreasing quality, along with the cliche style means I wouldn't bother reading it.

Me the opposite order. I now think that the first book is ok because it is new. After that, it's like a second dinner. You have made me so glad I skipped #3. Happy holidays, 2023.

But it teaches some attitudes about the passivity and gullibility of women and the predatory nature of older men. The CHristians probably dont like the sex part -- by robert or Jesus. I had that thought too. I decided to play the opposer in this comment to tout the con arguments.

I have $10 on he only just watched it before that was taped.

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so have i, i will never forgive the world for not collectively dogpiling on this shitstain of a book series

@@resikchanel843 is there a reference here I don't get?

I think it is the bowler hat.

Same here.. and I don't get his constant references to that computer/phone company.

@@saw2135 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the hat. The shape of it is very mystical, almost like it's a symbol or something.

Definitely hat.

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I took one year of art history in school and I knew that da Vinci wrote backwards. What kind of education is Harvard giving?

NO! NO! FIVE letters! P-E-A-R-S!!

Or pomegranate

@@shannondh83 No Billy had it, aPear ;)

Now that's funny!

How could you possibly get it wrong. It's right in front of you. The answer to the puzzle is "shirt"

Yeah, it's on the level of that one puzzle from National Treasure where the computer can't figure out that the password is Valley Forge because it has two Ls and two Es. Oh! but Nicholas Cage can!

Which book was this?

@@lisamarie5937 Digital Fortress

@@Jarakin Such a shockingly bad book. And then Deception Point had the exact same plot: "specialist" "discovers" "unique information" that "solves/proves the puzzle", while surviving attacks from "professional assassins" while screwing the "young, female sidekick". His writing is cack.

I confess that I enjoyed reading the DC when it first came out, though it did nothing to turn my world inside out. But then I tried reading another novel by Dan Brown and gave up … it was downhill from the somewhat entertaining mole hill of the first book.

Shame there were no renowned chemists in the book

The solution all along: freezer + hammer

@@vaerix0 Even easier for a physicist. The bottle of Vinegar is both broken and unbroken before you open the cryptex. Basically, DaVinci's Cryptex is like Schrödingers Cat. Simply crack open the cryptex where the bottle is unbroken. You're welcome.

If it was frozen might the bottle break from the expansion? If there is a cork might it be forced open?

You could also just use a drill or file to shave off the side of the crytex in a way that won’t break the bottle if the bottle is strong enough to survive you putting in the code it can definitely survive filing My solution stabilise the cryptic with clamps and then use an industrial sander to sand off the top

That woman gets to live rent free in your brain lol. I've had a few experience like that. Isn't working in customer service just the best?

I'm gonna be the biggest artist on earth by the end of the year 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Mormons think he did!!! Or at least some Mormons- not sure if it’s in actual church doctrine but some for sure believe that since humans have to be married to get into the highest-tier of mormon heaven, and since Jesus is like the model of what people should be, that Jesus HAD to have been married

Not I, but a friend was leaving the NYC showing of the play based on the two first Hillary Mantel books about Sir Thomas Cromwell. A woman behind her said to a companion "I hope Mantel finishes that last book soon. I can't wait to find out what happens to Cromwell."

I work at a used book store currently....and can attest, at least half the adult population genuinely _does not know_ what the terms fiction and non-fiction mean. I cannot begin to count how many times I've asked someone if the book they're looking for is fiction or non-fiction, only to have their confused face say one more time, "It's about baseball. And the guy finds the thing." I'm sure most people would bet on the assumption that most human adults know what fiction and non-fiction mean. But around half of us.....don't. And that never ceases to astound me. In part because....if they don't know THAT....what DO they know? Anything??

Said what? He cowardly stopped half ways. Yes, the book is full of easy riddles. Apple. The mirror writing. etc. On purpose. Average people are dumb. Reading the book, solving the easy riddles bore the protagonists made the readers feel smart. And that's it. That sold the book to millions of dumb people. But John didn't want to lose his crowd, so didn't get to the deduction.

Aww...yes 💯 He had to be and it was probably hilarious ❣️❣️❣️🤣🤣🤣 High five friend🥰🥰🥰

I bet John has a LOT of grievances he needs to air …?

He has to keep creative and come up with talking points. Thats part of show businesses.

Strictly speaking, this *didn't* air on HBO. This segment was straight-to-RU-vid, which anyone can do. His "clout" is represented by us, in that we're watching it. Still a lot of clout, but slightly less than you give him credit for. =)

@@samsmith1999 well... this could be on one episode and no one would bat an eye.

@@damp2269 I know. I agree. I'm just having a little fun.

@@damp2269 yea I mean he spent probably around 45 mins telling telling Adam Driver to do violent things to him over the course of a season and no one stopped him. I think you're right that a book rant wouldn't even raise our eyebrows at this point. Lol

Yeah! A bitter version of Ebert and Roeper except it's just him sitting in the balcony yelling. With occasional guest reviewers played by members of the Impractical Jokers.

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Yessss

Now do Baby Driver!

And it should be HBO shows to boot, just to piss off business daddy!

YESSSSSSSS

This!!!

If you like this, check out "obsessive popculture disorder" from the original cracked. Its host, Daniel O'brien, ended up getting a writing gig on this show. If you know his previous stuff, you'll be able to see why his writing and humour style meshes so well with John Oliver's.

@@katherinemclean1448 I loved how Dan O'Brien meshed with the others on "Cracked After Hours" series. I like John Oliver's schtick here, but I think it would be fun to see Oliver's opinions bouncing off those of another comedian. The regular John Oliver segments are usually so persuasive became he's doing fact-oriented exposés, and it wouldn't make sense to debate his points. John Oliver has made a brand out of reliably telling the well-researched truth. But with pop culture reviews, it would make more sense to argue the points, since his points are somewhat more subjective. So it could work with a discussion in the style of Dan O'Brien's style on Cracked After Hours.

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Yeah....... you're not wrong. 3.5 hours and the answer was "None" Worst part? I was a Player not the DM

that feeling when the game grinds to a halt and the only way out is to tell the players the answer

For the players to solve on the spot in what is basically a free form improve setting. Movies are scriped dramas, the puzzle can be fiendishly complicated or even impossible as long as you make the audience believe the character is smart enough to solve it that's all you need.

But this worse, if the guy knew some actual history it wouldn't have worked. there never was a apple and Newton never incurred the wrath of the church.

@@chriswoo2289 I feel your pain. My group once got stuck in a room slowly filling with poison gas for two hours of real time while we tried to figure out a puzzle that we thought would let us escape when we solved it. It turned out the door was unlocked.

oh yeahhhhh the controversy, i forgot! lol this is such an eyeroll now haha

Wow, my church encouraged us to read stuff from other religions.

Okay now I don't think my catholic atheist ex gf was as bad a book critic as I did. That puts some context in to it lol

Geee... where do you live? In cousinsville, apalachia?

sure you didn't make it to the baptists

"We need to find someone willing to write a book that's exactly stupid enough so the average person will feel a little smart."

@@googiegress7459 That's exactly it. Nobody wants a book where the central puzzle is so difficult that nobody has a chance to work it out. That just makes the readers feel dumb and they might not buy the next book. The average person isn't that smart, so it has to be pretty blatant.

and then they found him when Ready Player One was published?

@@aceshighdueceslow Admittedly that ones popularity stemmed from nostalgia as much as anything else... probably the only thing that kept me reading was that the first clue was a D&D adventure.

@@aceshighdueceslow Oh, please do read Ready Player Two (a stupid name, for starter). It's shockingly awful and its protagonist shockingly creepy. There should be free online copies.

A cliffhanger with the solution foreshadowed 3 chapters earlier...

@@metheus108 …with at least half a dozen pointless references to a Mickey Mouse watch.

Scientific progress goes doing

I came to say the same thing. Every single book he writes is basically the same. Started with Digital Fortress. The bad guy is someone trusted that you find out betrays you halfway into the book.

The Sidekick bit is just clear that he took a lot of inspiration from Bond as well as Indiana Jones

Right? Most of the people ripping a book for being a fun little mystery novel that wasn't supposed to be anything but easy escapism probably all love and defend their favorite Marvel Movies, which make the Da Vinci Code look sophisticated in comparison. In fact, I would estimate that all of the tropes and cliches in the Da Vinci Code that supposedly make it irredeemable exist in about 90% of all Hollywood movies and a good chunk of books.

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That is when I threw the book across the room and for the next several weeks went on a tear dissing the book to friends and family.

Yeah right, you ate it all up and were deeply impressed until smarter people pointed out how bs the book really was. Don't pretend differently now.

✝️ *LORD JESUS DIED & ROSE AGAIN TO PAY THE DEBT OF UR SIN!* ✅By Faith in the sacrifice God has made are we saved from the penalty of sin! 🔵Turn from your sin that leads to death & accept His Gift that leads to eternal Life! 💜We are all sinners that need God. No one can say they are perfect to be able to pay their debt of sin. This is why only God could pay the penalty for us, that is merciful Love!

@@ricoparadiso you do realize, don't you, that that story means your god is impotent.

I think that's a lovely memory to have!

This topic is near and dear to my heart. I hated and mocked this book when I was a teenager. He's almost stealing my thunder. I was so angry that I wanted my money back for that dumb green hardcover novel. It really could have been written by a 5th grader.

Scrolled for a minute to find someone who got it...

@@thenextprodigy815 To be fair, that started waaayyy before DaVinci Code, you can already blame X-Files for priming pop media audiences for conspiracy theories taking hold.

@@RoonMian or numerology

@@RoonMian Ah I guess you're not wrong but as little as I'm acquainted with the wretched book and its offspring, I can vouch that X-Files at least sometimes indulged in artful self parody that bordered genius, a redeeming quality I suspect is nowhere to be found in the Da Vinci mess. I particularly recall a superb marsh monster episode that deserved a special Emmy all by itself .

Let's add how Karens probably got inspired by "The Secret"

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YES thank you! they even have the same cover deal that I didn't notice before, because ~secrets~

Yes pleeeeeeeeease!

" the secret " review goin be awesome

i vote 50 Shades of Grey hahaha

Thank you! Pretty sure I saw that book around my house for years. Maybe it's time I looked into it.

THANK YOU. I've long described this book to people (perhaps insufferably so) as "Thinking man's Da Vinci Code." Written by someone who knows what they're talking about, yet simultaneously doesn't take itself nearly as seriously.

@@marks6051 Foucault's Pendulum doesn't take itself seriously? I don't know, Umberto Eco seems like just about one of the most pretentious writers around.

@@noahkidd3359 Haha well, I can't disagree with that even though I do like him. I guess I meant because the book treats conspiracy theories with a bit more satire than Brown. I mean, at one point we're not sure if the documents are a religious plot spanning generations or just someone's grocery list.

I liked the name of the rose but skipped over all the religious bs that the problem with these intellectuals they like to hear themselves talk to much

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My daughter said they were good - she was wrong! 😎

I've read all of them (Dan Browns books that is) and totally get Johns criticism. They are, nonetheless, highly entertaining imo. Perfect for a vacation.

The tragedy of his books is, that they start out absolutely amazing and engaging. You feel some incredible mystery unfolding, you have main protagonists who can't use force to stop the evil nemesis and have to outsmart or outrun them. The feel of urgency - all of that. And then, just when you, the reader feel to have unsolved the riddle, like in a good ol' Sherlock Holmes story - the author pulls the rug under you with a 'Lolz no - regardless of what you figured out, you're wrong. The baddie is someone barely mentioned or was glossed over or portrayed as the good one with not a single shred of clue for you and he did it because he's fuckin' crazy! HA! Didn't think of that smarty pants?' The endings are rushed and insulting. Which hit's doubly hard, because the rest of the story IS really good.

@@uefets they're based on the literally works of Pierre Plantard who initiated a failed attempt at creating a Neo Chivalric Order called The Priory of Sion in 1956....read up on it, it's a super crazy and interesting story especially given that many people believed that Dan Brown was revealing these deep conspiracies through his books back when they were popular...then you find out it was all based on a French hoax from the 1950s

I agree with his sediment wishing death to the generation that missed the Da Vinchi Code craze