Get A Life!
How come books with great mass appeal are always panned by critics and the "intellectually superior?"
I heard Solomon Rushdie is "unimpressed" with "The Da Vinci Code." Of course he is. "Da Vinci" is a huge blockbuster, was made into a movie, and is making a ton of $$ for Dan Brown. For all his critical acclaim, Solomon Rushdie's biggest work got him a death sentence. And rightly so. Have you read The Satanic Verses? Yawn!
Though, he did like "Bridget Jones's Diary," and even had a cameo in the movie. So I guess he isn't all bad.
posted by Desperate Housewife at
7:47 AM
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The book was kind of dumb, I thought, supporting my "if the masses loved it, it probably wasn't very hard to understand" theory.
Every chapter ended on the cusp of a revelation with "Could it really be?" A little Nancy Drew, I thought.
I would much rather have read a non-fiction telling of the theory.
That said, it tickled me to no end as we were sitting in the theatre to think of all the preachers and priests whose heads are near exploding at the thought of us all sitting in the theatre.
(I guess that officially makes me one of the pompously 'intellectually superior', sorry ;)
Book snob!
I just think that something that can spark that kind of interest clearly has to have some merit.
I should also point out that I'm PMS-ing, and my pretentious academic snot of an ex-husband told me he didn't care for it yesterday when he dropped the Boy off.
I will cop to being a book snob.
But because your ex didn't like it and he MUST be an idiot not to have treated you like a queen, obviously I was being too harsh and the book was brilliant ;)
Good review: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/davinci.html
Thank you!
Peter and Dutchy, you should take note of Beth's deft handling of a premenstrual female.
Well, maybe not you, Dutchy. ;)
I subscribe to the "Dicks method" of handling a premenstrual female:
Throw chocolate bars in your general direction and then flee.
My daughter went and seen it and loved it. Plus she read the book twice. She is only 14 and told me that I needed to see the movie, it was better than the book.
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