[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Mike Meredith]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:58:19 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Dan Brown's book "The DaVinci Code" was a blatant rip-off of "Holy
> > Blood, Holy Grail", published in the early 80s.  He took their
> > story and turned it into a fiction novel.
> 
> They sued him for plagiarism, and commented, "We don't understand how
> he managed to steal almost all the facts from our book and STILL get
> it all wrong."

And in fact lost the case! Possibly because "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"
was not entirely original itself.

I'd categorise TDC as a passably entertaining science fiction story
about a parallel universe which has a history slightly similar to our
own. You would have to be awfully gullible to believe it was anywhere
near the truth.

-- 
Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  'I find film very seductive ... like a woman my parents would not
like me to date. She's expensive, inconvenient, and you really can't
know you'll get what you want. But you'll be certain you'll want a
cigarette before the night is out.