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[nathanmarx]

Dan Brown's being accused of "stealing" The Da Vinci Code's history from other author.
I read the book, and I believe that Dan Brown's a great writer and he wouldn' t need to steal a history.
He makes you like to read, if you don't. Sometimes I just could'n stop reading that book. That may be so difficult to do... I believe he really wrote the book.
(Look out for Angels & Demons too).

Give it your opinion...
Dan Brown really stole the history?

[buikerbok]

hello
I also read "The Da Vinci Code" now. And, I also can't stop reading this book. Dan Brown is a excellence writer. News said that Dan Brown gained the an action of ejectment. He doesn't steal other story!
I trust him.

[Giulietta]

I read the book and i don't like this...
and i think that he isn't the real writer...

[aevi82]

I've red The DaVinci code and Angels and Demons too...
I liked those books. But I also red the feature story The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail where I found many similar facts with Broun books. That book (I mean The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail) was written before the DaVinci Code and it's completely historical. So I believe that Broun used it like one of the sources for his book. And that's normal. You don't need to invent a bycicle if you already have it, if you know what I mean. That's true for historical literature, in my opinion.

[Edoardo]

[aevi82]

No, of course, that's not true what Broun wrote. But! You wanted a fact and here it is: it is well-known fact that there was congregation called Tampliers which was connected with some misterious facts about Solomon's Tample. Broun says about other congregation what is fiction. But it is based on real historical facts...

[Edoardo]

the existence of the Templars is obviously true, like the existence of the Louvre Museum, or of the city of Paris... i'm talking about the things Brown says to have "discovered"...