Starship Coyote
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Does anyone here who has read both The DaVinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail not think that Dan Brown drew his inspiration for the former book from the latter?
SaintLucifer said:Damn you are all fucking stupid. ALL books are drawn from other sources. You think people suddenly come up with these ideas out of the blue? No. They read another book and say 'aha! I shall file that away for future reference'. It is how our fucking brain works you stupid fuck. When someone asks you about the fucking history of fucking Rome do you tell him the fucking history of fucking Rome because you know it from fucking experience or do you tell him what you know from having read fucking history fucking books? Goddamn motherfuck you are all stupid. Of course he drew his inspiration from elsewhere. ALL authors do. Stupid fucks. Grow some fucking goddamn motherfucking asshole-picking brains.
CoyoteUgly said:Does anyone here who has read both The DaVinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail not think that Dan Brown drew his inspiration for the former book from the latter?
Mentalist said:I have read both and Holy Blood Holy Grail was -as is no secret at all- the source material for The DaVinci Code. I find the hubub over The DaVinci Code to be insulting to intelligent people everywhere. I enjoyed it just fine. I enjoyed it as a piece of fiction, a summer thriller that was a light read at best but didn't have a very impressive writing style. But it was allright.
The fact that people start taking it as gospel is hilarious and saddening at the same time. HBHG is an alternative history if you're being kind and a outright book full of disinformation if you want to be mean and you're too stupid to make the distinction yourself.
The fact of the matter is that Dan Brown ripped most of his information from HBHG and then adapated the Pseudo-History hardly at all as the backdrop to his novel.
HBHG is no more accurate than The DaVinci Code. The Priory of Sion information is all wrong in HBHG for starters and since Dan Brown has just copied it over basically from that book the inconsitencies remain. The Council of Nicea stuff is also laughable at best. Theologically both are about as pointless as a broken pencil.
I guess there is a case for plaigarism against Brown though.
Would it not be possible HBHG referred to the same sources as the DaVinci code?