The Other Books Around the Da Vinci Code Hype
A few weeks ago i was at this big bookstore in the city (a very famous bookstore), browsing as usual. This was when the whole 'Da Vinci Code' craze was just about to restart due to the media fanfare on the upcoming movie starring Tom Hanks.
So naturally, the bookstore was capitalizing on the sudden interest, prominently parading the Dan Brown books at the entrance, especially those older, less popular novels by the guy. Not to mention the boxsets.
Anyways, further in, there was this other shelf, which wasn't as prominently displayed, the store people had selected some books that more or less were on the same theme as DVC, you know, the whole religious-conspiracy-code-in-ancient-manuscript-race-against-time thing.
Here's a few i saw on display:
Decipher by Stel Pavlou
There are plenty more than these, maybe the store people should have displayed more, like Umberto Eco's books...
The Magdalene Cipher by Jim Hougan
After doing some reading on Amazon.com, i found out some of these novels were actually written in the 80's long before Dan Brown's book. Except back then they're weren't the 'in' thing...
The Genesis Code by John Case
I wonder if people are really buying all these books just based on the hype of DVC? I dunno.
The Messiah Code by Michael Cordy
Maybe so, since i myself discovered Focault's Pendulum via DVC, so there...
So naturally, the bookstore was capitalizing on the sudden interest, prominently parading the Dan Brown books at the entrance, especially those older, less popular novels by the guy. Not to mention the boxsets.
Anyways, further in, there was this other shelf, which wasn't as prominently displayed, the store people had selected some books that more or less were on the same theme as DVC, you know, the whole religious-conspiracy-code-in-ancient-manuscript-race-against-time thing.
Here's a few i saw on display:
Decipher by Stel Pavlou
There are plenty more than these, maybe the store people should have displayed more, like Umberto Eco's books...
The Magdalene Cipher by Jim Hougan
After doing some reading on Amazon.com, i found out some of these novels were actually written in the 80's long before Dan Brown's book. Except back then they're weren't the 'in' thing...
The Genesis Code by John Case
I wonder if people are really buying all these books just based on the hype of DVC? I dunno.
The Messiah Code by Michael Cordy
Maybe so, since i myself discovered Focault's Pendulum via DVC, so there...
posted by Yoong Family at 10:07 am
1 Comments:
there's some others like "holy blood holy grail" written quite long before da vinci's code. well i suppose they provide some fun reading :)
there's this new one called maranatha. suposed to haf a puzzle inside n the first one to crack it gets like us$1 mil
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