Jim Lewandowski
November 21, 2005 04:58PM
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Stephanie Wrote:
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> Jim Lewandowski Wrote:
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> > ***
> > I don't mean it to. I'm simply still not
> > understanding all the fuss. If Brown's
> "fact"
> > prologue page is misleading or ambiguous,
> then it
> > seems a reasonable person would simply decide
> for
> > themselves what's "fact" and what isn't.
>
> It is misleading but the problem is that alot of
> people probably are simply too busy to check out
> the facts and you have alot of people out there
> that will say things that add to the problem.
***
Does this mean EVERY author has the impetus on himself to never, ever offer a fictional attribute in a fictional novel unless they specifically say so?
> I've mentioned this before but I remember when I
> first heard about the Da Vinci Code. My mother
> wrote me an email and asked me what I thought of
> the whole thing. She had read the book as Brown
> had presented it and had heard alot of people
> talking about it as well. If you have 1000 people
> believing that what is written in the DaVinci Code
> is real, then it becomes even more powerful.
> Still doesn't mean that the theories are right.
***
And I'm sure you can draw a parallel to this (book posited as factual) in modern life.
>
> Personally, if somebody wants to believe in the
> ideas presented by the book, it makes no nevermind
> to me. What I do find troubling is how actual
> groups are portrayed in the book.
***
If you were the member of a group and Brown wrote about an albino assassin as part of your group (in a fictional book), would you even waste your time to "correct" the "fact"? I wouldn't.
Let's say your organization is ALWAYS portrayed as having an albino assassin but there is no evidence to that. Would you waste your time to correct the fact?
Some people
> would say that hey, it brings fame but I'm not so
> sure. I was once a model for a character in a
> small Seattle newspaper's comic strip and I wasn't
> too happy when I was offed by a machine gun toting
> bunny rabbit after I turned down a date with the
> artist or that I was depicted as a bubble headed
> blonde, lol, even though my name wasn't publicly
> attached to the character. I think that's the
> thing about being written into anything, even
> fiction. I don't think it should be done because
> how one is painted can be really quite
> unfair...but hey, it's fiction right after all.
***
Since it's a work of fiction, all bets are off, IMHO. Hence, the GENIUS of Brown.
JL
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