My OperaDan Brown Books: Filled with inaccuracies.....
Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:35:34 AM
Did you see This in the UK Telegraph?
A small taste:
* Langdon is shown lecturing his students that the Christian tradition of communion, eating the body of their god, comes from the Aztecs. Communion has taken place since the first century; the Aztec civilisation arose during the 13th century. Europeans did not reach central America, where the Aztecs lived, until the late 15th century.
* A character says Nicolaus Copernicus was murdered by the church for contradicting Biblical teaching. In fact Copernicus died of a stroke in 1543; there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.
I think Dan Brown is convinced this is true, as evidenced by this passage at the beginning of his new novel:
FACT. "All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real"
So basically, he writes fiction that purports to be true and accurate, but is actually worse than normal fiction. No one ever lost money by underestimating the American public's taste, have they?
A small taste:
* Langdon is shown lecturing his students that the Christian tradition of communion, eating the body of their god, comes from the Aztecs. Communion has taken place since the first century; the Aztec civilisation arose during the 13th century. Europeans did not reach central America, where the Aztecs lived, until the late 15th century.
* A character says Nicolaus Copernicus was murdered by the church for contradicting Biblical teaching. In fact Copernicus died of a stroke in 1543; there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.
I think Dan Brown is convinced this is true, as evidenced by this passage at the beginning of his new novel:
FACT. "All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real"
So basically, he writes fiction that purports to be true and accurate, but is actually worse than normal fiction. No one ever lost money by underestimating the American public's taste, have they?
