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Default The Da Vinci Code - 08-09-2005, 09:51 PM

Any of you nubs read it?

From what I hear its pretty good. I bought it today off amazon.com for 12 bucks brand new Hardcover.

Ive been looking for a good read lately. Plznospoilerskthx.

ps I know the basic premise of the story.


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Default 08-09-2005, 09:53 PM

everyone in my highschool and their moms read that book. They all liked it. I haven't read it though, so I can't tell you my personal point.


  
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Default 08-09-2005, 09:54 PM

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everyone in my highschool and their moms read that book. They all liked it. I haven't read it though, so I can't tell you my personal point.
then give me the names and phone #'s of everyone in your highschool and their mothers plz.


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Default 08-09-2005, 09:57 PM

I read it and liked it.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:00 PM

i read the first 100 pages, it just didnt pull me in like everyone said it would. but, everyone says the first 100 pages are boring and it gets better after that, but meh...just didnt feel like it.


  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:00 PM

I hear only good things about that book.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:06 PM

Is it not a TV show?
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:08 PM

I did not read it, and I never will. I will listen to it though. Most likely watch it, too.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:16 PM

Not to huge on popular literature. Some of the best novels are the least known.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:18 PM

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Not to huge on popular literature. Some of the best novels are the least known.
try Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters

you'll love it.


  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:18 PM

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Not to huge on popular literature. Some of the best novels are the least known.
I've read a few really unknown books and loved them. They are so unknown that I even forgot the names of them. cry:
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:25 PM

[quote="Scalping Chief":f4d63]Is it not a TV show?[/quote:f4d63]

That is davinchi's inquest.. a fantastic canadian police ivestigation show.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:26 PM

I will wait for the movie biggrin:
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 10:47 PM

[quote="Jin-Roh":63d84] I will listen to it though..[/quote:63d84]

Audiobooks? Those thins mess with me - just too abnormal.
  
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Default 08-09-2005, 11:31 PM

[quote="Short Hand":b366a][quote="Scalping Chief":b366a]Is it not a TV show?[/quote:b366a]

That is davinchi's inquest.. a fantastic canadian police ivestigation show.[/quote:b366a]

He might mean beyond the davinchi code. It was on the history channel saying how it wasnt true or some thing like that.
  
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