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Back again!

Uncategorized — Pedro Cardoso on August 15, 2005 at 1:21 pm

After a 2 week time lapse without new posts, I’m back again online. No, it weren’t vacations (I wish…), but I moved to a new apartment (without internet until a couple of days ago) and work is quickly becoming too dense with no need for distractions.

When at home I’ve become addicted to the Da Vinci Code, in a few days 50 pages from finishing it.

And already a mere 10 days from the Hitchhikers’ guide to the galaxy movie. Can’t wait!

3 Comments

  1. I’ve shun that book for all I’ve heard about it; it was too popular and too controversial.

    One day, my wife bought the book as a gift to her father, for he liked the story behind it and had a couple of other books in the same vein. He read it in a couple of days and said the book really was awsome.

    We (me and my wife) read the book *out loud* to each other in turns during a single week-end, and it really is a great story very well told. We simply got hooked.

    (We read the book to each other as we did stuff at home; I read when she was cooking, she read when I was washing the dishes, etc, so no time would be lost! :)

    What I really find amazing is the number of people questioning the veracity of the book’s “facts”; it’s difficult to draw the line between fiction and reality, and some people take it very far. I saw amazing thigns in Paris that I’m not going to tell because I don’t want to spoil the finish for you, Pedro!

    Have you finished it already?

    Comment by Oscar — August 16, 2005 @ 11:59 am
  2. Finished it already. Took about less than I antecipated, a week from cover to cover, but I guess in the last few days the daily page count was increasing in the same ratio as the Fibonacci sequence :) It really got me hooked.

    Too bad I went to Paris a couple of years ago. If it were now I would have a lot more things to watch closely. Maybe next time. I wouldn’t be surprised that someone will start doing a “Da Vinci Code” touristic bus in the meantime :)

    Comment by Pedro Cardoso — August 18, 2005 @ 12:12 am
  3. Well… they actually already have. We’ve seen advertising about those tourist buses that have included the spots of the book on the tour. Although I didn’t have a chance to try it out, it seems very nice indeed, if only because several buses do the same tour, so that you can drop off a bus, visit Saint Sulpice or walk along the Tuilerie Gardens (for example), and catch another bus on the same spot (or another further ahead) to continue the tour.

    Anyway, as I was telling you on the other comment, (spoiler warning!) I saw amazing things under the Inverted Pyramid; the book finishes with Robert Langdon realizing that the Graal could be on the “small” pyramid under the big inverted one. Well, I saw dozens of persons, mainly women, touching and kissing the small pyramid in great respect.

    It just goes to show how well hte book is written.

    Comment by Oscar — August 18, 2005 @ 10:26 am

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