The book as a work of fiction with its captivating tale of murder against the background of the curious history of the Knights Templar is engaging.
Read Dan Brown and you might end up writing a sentence like that.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Entering the decoding game
Bishop Richard J. Sklba tackles The Da Vinci Code in the "Herald of Hope" column of our Catholic Herald.
Read Dan Brown and you might end up writing a sentence like that.
Read Dan Brown and you might end up writing a sentence like that.
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In contrast: Bp. Bruskewitz considers it to be a sin to see the movie.
ReplyDelete"Captivating." "Engaging."
Rrrrriiiiight, Richie.
Better suggestion: ANY of Tom Clancy's eminently Catholic books. ANY of Tom Wolfe's demi-Catholic books.
Sklba... What a shame. Life is too short to be pouring Dan Brown's effluent into one's head, even for "entertainment." I'll be happy to spend the rest of my days reading anything by:
ReplyDelete• Chesterton,
• Waugh,
• Dorothy Sayers,
• Flannery O' Connor,
• R.H. Benson,
• Belloc,
• Ronald Knox,
and about 50 others I can think of right off the top of my head. My dad used to say (of one's choice of reading material), "Garbage in, garbage out." Sklba pretty much demonstrates the wisdom of THAT aphorism.