Alex Smart Wrote:
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> Browsing the well-stocked shelves of my local
> Borders yesterday, I saw a number of 'guides' to
> the background of Brown's 'Da Vinci Code'.
>
> Has anybody here read one of these 'guides'
> (titles I can recall are "Cracking the Da Vinci
> Code" and "The Penguin Guide to the Da Vinci
> Code").

Hehheh. If it were me, I'd get both. That way I
could compare them and learn a lot at the same time.

>
> I thoroughly and unashamedly enjoyed the novel
> (I've just bought 'Angels & Demons' on the
> strength of it) and now feel that it may prove
> interesting to find out more about the background
> material.

That's so weird, because yesterday I went to TGY to
get my hair cut, and the hairdresser has a copy of
The Celestine Prophecy lying on the counter right in
front of my chair. We got to talking about it, and I
asked her if she'd read The da Vinci Code. She had.
Then the manager started talking about how he had read TdVC
while in Paris staying a block away from the Louvre, so he
could go look at the paintings at the same time. Now that was
very kewl! They both highly recommended Angels and Demons, so
I bought it immediately afterwards. I plan to read it very soon.

> I watched Tony Robinson's recent programme on the
> subject (UK TV), but it was too much to take in in
> one viewing.

Is there an online transcript?

Sue