The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
@chicksdigscars (5483)
July 19, 2011 4:41am CST
I've just started reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and people keep telling me it's based on a true story, or things about it are true.. and i'm slightly confused? I thought it was just a mystery thriller book that was made into a movie.. I guessed some of the symbolism in the book was real, but I didn't realise that the book was actually a real story.. well, is it? Can someone please help me out? I'm pretty confused lol!
10 responses
@marguicha (215603)
• Chile
20 Jul 11
The Da Vinci Code is fiction. That means that nothing is true, but as fiction goes, the author writes a story that is make believe. While you are reading it, you can imagine and accept it´s true. But of course it isn´t. The settings are true and it is part of what makes the plot seem real. The Louvre, Paris, other places are real.
The really good fiction makes the reader feel that it is real.
I found the book very interesting, had fun reading it, but I don´t think that Dan Brown has discovered things about Christ that noone knows.
@marguicha (215603)
• Chile
21 Jul 11
Secret societies are part of History. But Dan Brown used that knowledge (open to everyone who is interested) and twisted it into fiction. As for the Catholic church, it holds more classified information than the CIA
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
20 Jul 11
They can't be very secret if they're apparent.
But nah, that's probably not true. Secret societies have existed in the past, but they're not holders of any brilliant world-changing secrets. Writers just like to use them because the secrecy gives them this air of mystery, and writers can write them however they want to.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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20 Jul 11
i didn't mean that Dan Brown has! there are apparent secret socities, that know where the holy grail is hidden, there are people who protect secrets that could bring down the entire roman catholic church, secrets that apparently overrule every single fact we've heard about the bible. that is true! and i know it because i watched a documentary on it. apparently the vataian cover up acient artifacts and secrets that would disprove everything we know about the bible and christ. i was wondering if dan brown had encorporated any of these true facts into his novel, making the story fiction, and facts not.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
oooh ok, sort of like propaganda? haha! surely there are elements that are real though considering there are people that believe in things he put in his book, and hidden secrets etc?
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
well i suppose. thanks though. i just thought all that secret stuff about the bible and how its all fake etc was all true.. cheers!
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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2 Sep 11
i still haven't finished the book, and until i finish the book i refuse to watch the film lol! .. and i don't really have a clue whats going on at the minute, except that a cult type religion is searching for some religious artifact and a group called the priory are protecting it.. and a religious historian is involved. it's kind of weird haha!
@wawicarmz (66)
• Philippines
19 Jul 11
Nope, The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown is fictional. It was published as a fiction novel. However, the artists, places, artifacts that were mentioned in the story actually exists with real references. But that is just how far it does as true. As for the story itself, it's a made-up story created by Dan Brown like any other fiction genre novels. :)
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
oooh right, but are there certain elements of the storyline that are true? such as the beliefs etc and people not believing in the bible and these secrets etc etc??
@wawicarmz (66)
• Philippines
21 Jul 11
Rumors exist that there are these kind of beliefs and secrets but that is all there is, just rumors about these stories. And like all gossips and rumors after a long time, it gets pretty much exaggerated.
However,there's one thing i am aware of which is really true, that there are some people not believing in the bible. That is why there are people, missionaries we call them, spreading the Good News and spreading the faith about God. :)
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
it is sooo realistic, you would actually think these things were true!!
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
hmm.. i guess. i don't understand any of this paris, rome, religious stuff anyway to even see if i can relate any of it to real facts.. despite the fact i'm roman catholic haha!
@trannhatanh89 (49)
• Vietnam
24 Jul 11
It's not true. It just based from some real facts with a completely unreal story line.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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25 Jul 11
thats actually what i had initially meant i think someone told me the story was true, but obviously when i found it it wasn't true [when i started to read it] i started to wonder about the facts! theres a bit near the start that says da vinci actually had designs for never-before-seen weapons of war and torture and things like that.. are those things true?
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
you should its actually quite an interesting book. i've never seen the movie tho!
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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21 Jul 11
well thats ok.. so some facts or rumours may be "true" but the story is completely made up? well thats good, because i'm enjoying reading it and i was getting a little worried about the world lmao!
@redmaryjane (891)
• United States
19 Jul 11
It's fiction! I admit that Dan Brown has enough writing talent, but to say that his works are true and real is taking it a bit too far. Good (as in good enough) writing is based on research and familiarity, but the end product, in this case a best selling novel, is always fiction. The Da Vinci Code is by no means real and IS a work of FICTION.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Jul 11
noooooo i didn't think THE BOOK was real lol i know it's a story.. i mean the whole topic of what he talks about, secret codes and people keeping these hidden secrets against the church etc etc is THAT all true somewhat? lol!
@WannaRead (34)
• United States
10 Mar 16
The book is not based on a real story. There is some factual information, like the Templars, the Crusades... but the rest of the main story is fiction.
