The Da Vinci Code

[BarTopDancer]

You mean it's not real?!?! CRAP! What am I supposed to believe now?

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

You mean it's not real?!?! CRAP! What am I supposed to believe now?

Do what I do. Don't believe anything.

I think the extent of Dan Brown's research involved pulling Holy Blood, Holy Grail and Margaret Starbird's The Woman With The Alabaster Jar off his bookshelf. He lifts paragraphs practically verbatim from them. Neither of those tomes is considered scholarly. They're pop history of the most speculative kind, not uninteresting, but not earth-shaking.

My favorite part of Alabaster Jar is the bit about Walt Disney being a long standing member of this secret society dedicated to the "sacred feminine." This book, and it ends up in Dan Brown's novel as well, talks about how Walt hid symbols related to Mary Magdalene in The Little Mermaid, quite a feat, considering how dead he was at the time.