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To: KLP who wrote (166314)	5/13/2006 1:16:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794184

I liked all of Brown's books. Am actually surprised that the Da Vinci Code is such a blockbuster but it certainly was a pageturner. They are making so much money off it! Illustrated versions, even an illustrated version of the screenplay. I think the churches are sort of piling on because it's a way of getting free publicity for themselves

To: KLP who wrote (166314)	5/13/2006 1:41:53 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794184

Yes I read it. The premise is that the Christian church is based on a fraud and cover up. His claims about for example Council of Nicea are provable false but he stands behind them. Right at the beginning of book there’s this fable about The Priory of Scion – a hoax – yet he claims it is true. Is it important? Well, millions of people are taking it in, I think it’s important that they not be taken in by the lies. I think my analogy is apt. If someone wrote a novel around the premise that the Nazis were unjustly slandered, it became a smash best seller, AND 30% of the people who read it believe it, there would be some concern, even amongst the folks who shrug their shoulders at this book and sniff “It’s only a book”. dallasnews.com