Comments on: Back again! http://luminescente.com/2005/08/15/back-again/ a little string of the web Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Oscar http://luminescente.com/2005/08/15/back-again/#comment-15 Oscar Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:26:28 +0000 http://luminescente.com/afterdark/?p=30#comment-15 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. 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.

]]> By: Pedro Cardoso http://luminescente.com/2005/08/15/back-again/#comment-14 Pedro Cardoso Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:12:16 +0000 http://luminescente.com/afterdark/?p=30#comment-14 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 :) 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 :)

]]> By: Oscar http://luminescente.com/2005/08/15/back-again/#comment-13 Oscar Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:59:52 +0000 http://luminescente.com/afterdark/?p=30#comment-13 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? 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?

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