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I'm still reeling from it slightly...
I can't let too many plot details out, but the Team is seriously about to collide with a certain nasty virus, and Hal's true nature is doubtlessly about to be revealed....
Also, I'm still wading through the damn "Da Vinci Code". It's almost like a bad fanfic in places. I tripped over several clunker sentences already. Sophie Neveu just about has "I'm A Mary Sue!!!" in neon lighting on her forehead, or since she's French, make that "Je Suis Une Marie-Suzette!" (Pace, Monsieur le Merovingien, for le Francais Mal). If I see one more reference to her "green eyes", I *WILL* punt the book across the room!
And if Dan Brown wanted to have an evil Catholic organization for the bad guys of the piece, why didn't he just Make One Up instead of picking Opus Dei?! You hear that wierd, rhythmic thmp-thmp-thmp-thmp sound, Mr. Brown? It's St. Josemaria Escriva turning back-flips in his grave. Okay, I'll buy that some people in the Church got a little over-zealous in tracking down heretics/witches in the past, but those were *ONLY* the looky-loos, *NOT* the official Church, or the bulk of its members. And if the Church was so dead-set against paganism, *WHY* are there pagan statues in the Vatican Museum?! I think you mistook us for fundamentalist Protestants.
As I'm reading the book, I keep *trying* to visualize Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. I don't think he looks the part, he's a little too average-looking, but I don't doubt that he'd be able to pull off Langdon's cluelessness-when-it-comes-to-practical-matters. As my mother says, Tom Hanks is great at playing dumb but likeable characters.
For the Lambert Wilson fans reading this, how many of you are betting that the sexy French beast signs on for the movie version?
I can't let too many plot details out, but the Team is seriously about to collide with a certain nasty virus, and Hal's true nature is doubtlessly about to be revealed....
Also, I'm still wading through the damn "Da Vinci Code". It's almost like a bad fanfic in places. I tripped over several clunker sentences already. Sophie Neveu just about has "I'm A Mary Sue!!!" in neon lighting on her forehead, or since she's French, make that "Je Suis Une Marie-Suzette!" (Pace, Monsieur le Merovingien, for le Francais Mal). If I see one more reference to her "green eyes", I *WILL* punt the book across the room!
And if Dan Brown wanted to have an evil Catholic organization for the bad guys of the piece, why didn't he just Make One Up instead of picking Opus Dei?! You hear that wierd, rhythmic thmp-thmp-thmp-thmp sound, Mr. Brown? It's St. Josemaria Escriva turning back-flips in his grave. Okay, I'll buy that some people in the Church got a little over-zealous in tracking down heretics/witches in the past, but those were *ONLY* the looky-loos, *NOT* the official Church, or the bulk of its members. And if the Church was so dead-set against paganism, *WHY* are there pagan statues in the Vatican Museum?! I think you mistook us for fundamentalist Protestants.
As I'm reading the book, I keep *trying* to visualize Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. I don't think he looks the part, he's a little too average-looking, but I don't doubt that he'd be able to pull off Langdon's cluelessness-when-it-comes-to-practical-matters. As my mother says, Tom Hanks is great at playing dumb but likeable characters.
For the Lambert Wilson fans reading this, how many of you are betting that the sexy French beast signs on for the movie version?
