![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jul. 22nd, 2009 11:03 pmSaw Angels and Demons. Want to punch Dan Brown in the FACE for a number of things, including villifying the Large Hadron Collider, fucking up his own continuity, and spouting ridiculous horseshit about ( spoiler ) OH. NOT TO MENTION RIPPING A PAGE OUT OF A GALILEO BOOK WITH A BARE HAND AND HANDLING A BERNINI BOOK WITHOUT GLOVES OR MASK OR ANYTHING. WERE YOU PEOPLE RAISED IN A FUCKING BARN? (I typoed "bar" for "barn" but that would work too.) And I could have done without Ewan MacGregor's impassioned speech in favor of a union between church and science, mainly because it slowed down the plot when there was ( spoiler ).
That said, I enjoyed the eye candy (helloooooo, Ewan MacGregor; hellooooo, Bernini, Raphael, and Da Vinci) and what I took as Catholic in-jokes (all the papal stuff;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angie_di leaned over near the beginning and whispered "Spot the minority!" and I busted up. It's funny 'cause it's true). And -- just like my experience with reading The Da Vinci Code -- I was holding my breath and bouncing at the edge of my seat a lot of the time. Ripping good yarn. Pity it makes me want to throw things.
In the end: Umberto Eco did it better with The Name of the Rose, AND he had more sex in his book. What now, Dan Brown. (--Oh. Right. *glowers at Da Vinci Code* Whatever.)
That said, I enjoyed the eye candy (helloooooo, Ewan MacGregor; hellooooo, Bernini, Raphael, and Da Vinci) and what I took as Catholic in-jokes (all the papal stuff;
angie_di leaned over near the beginning and whispered "Spot the minority!" and I busted up. It's funny 'cause it's true). And -- just like my experience with reading The Da Vinci Code -- I was holding my breath and bouncing at the edge of my seat a lot of the time. Ripping good yarn. Pity it makes me want to throw things.In the end: Umberto Eco did it better with The Name of the Rose, AND he had more sex in his book. What now, Dan Brown. (--Oh. Right. *glowers at Da Vinci Code* Whatever.)
