Tha Davinci code...

[Katieface]

Ive always been deeply interested in the Davinci code, and I loved the film. I believe that this may be true, but alot of people ive spoken to about it say they think its just hollywood trying to make money. I was wondering what anyone else thought?

[sddsddean]

From the Concise OED

Novel 1A fictitious prose story of book length. 2This type of literature.

ie Its not true!

[Katieface]

But surely there must be some truth in it? What about the knights of the templar? are they just fiction?

[Lonnie]

Its historical fiction, a fictional story, based around fictional people, based on some historical myth and fact, very well woven together, and very badly written.

[saxy_jag]

I enjoyed the book, and the film, but I agree with Lonnie - it's essentially fiction, although Dan Brown based it on real events. By that, I mean that he took a documented event i history and used lots of artistic licence on it, as do many authors. Nothing wrong with that as long as the reader can keep reality and fiction seperate.

[jennymac]

ry this site.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and cannot believe that some people should be so against it. As already stated it is a lot of poetic licence set around some truths. Are the catholic church and its followers afraid of what may come out I ask myself.

Try this site for Knights Templar it will give you some idea about Dan Brown's subject matter.

http://www.templarhistory.com/who.html

If you liked this book Angels and Demons will grip you even more.

[jake-the-peg]

Although the Knights Templar were distroyed as an order in the 14th Century there was a very similar order, the Knights Hospitaller.

The Knights Templar are more glamorous partly because of their dramatic end but the Hospitallers are interesting in their own right - for the first time in nearly a thousand years the current Grand Master is an Englishman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitall er

Dan Brown's book is basically a web of fiction legend and some fairly reasonably suposition. For example there's good reason to suppose that the church did a pretty good job at downplaying the importance of women in the early church and an especially good character assassination of Mary Magdalene.

However the main theme of the "Holy Bloodline" was originally in a book on 1987 "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_blood_holy_g rail

It was pretty roundly shown to be a fraud then