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The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
This being the second book in series, first being Angels & Demons, I would consider to be quite an upgrade.
The writing style has improved.
I cannot accurately tell if it is a nice piece of literature, but it is a good story.
As I have read many non-English novels, barely translated, poorly by go*gle translate, and my sense of grammer is in shambles.
I don't even know if the english I write now is even grammatically correct...
Anyways coming to the point, the novel was interesting.
Why I said it was an improvement is that, the author now seems to know better that it is not so nice to randomly describe a woman's appearance at random times.
Like, imagine, would you describe a guy at a totally random time if he's very good looking or whatever you want.
It's not that I am saying you shouldn't, I am saying, do it at appropriate times.
Or I am not sure if I am saying this to simply criticize.
Like, I felt the first book had unnecessary descriptions of the female lead (was she actually as helpful as the one in this book, I don't remember, such miniscule in presence, just to push the plot forward)
Anyways, this book for some reason I felt nice.
Maybe it is because I hate misogyny or simply I hate male dominance or something.
The idea of female sacredness was intriguing and I was very much pulled into the idea.
I didn't even realize that this novel would have offended formal instituitions, because I am not of any european/american religions.
But it sure is famous because of that I guess.
In my opinion, the first book was more exciting, yes it had some cringey scenes, and true I said this was an upgrade, but if one only focuses on the plot, the first is nice.
DaVinci code overall attracted me, because of better writing style, at least better use of female lead, the use of idea of female sacredness, totally new stuff (I haven't heard of paganism or anything of that sort earlier, like in my place, it is normal to worship nature, and gods manifest in nature. Neither am I religious to comment on that), and the novel was grounded, like, felt down to earth (when compared to the previous).
After completely reading it, I felt many thing, I want to discuss it with real people, but sadly I don't know how to, I don't know if anyone would like think in the similar thought process as me, like, I think I felt differently than any other about the novel, maybe the author wrote it in the similar intention, I am not sure, but the straightforward meaning of the ending, I had comprehended it differently.
I felt that the protagonist worshiped the Chalice at the end not for the spirituality, but for the significance it had on the whole things it had involved in the novel, the artwork, the sacrifices, the things they had to go through was right where they begin.
Like I felt the whole experience was poetic in itself.
I don't know how to describe maybe the author could have done a better job, like with the plot with the right wordings, or with the write sequence of scenes, a better poetic end could have been brought out.
Maybe I hadn't put in much thought while reading the novel or something, but I felt it to be incomplete, like, I don't know, the end was poetic, but it could've been better, like a piece of music that fits in right with your feelings.
I'm not a mysogynist, but I feel the female lead was unnecessary here.
Call me mad, but this feeling of needing for 'romanticism', the plot additions because of her, seemed to have ruined the curious essence (forgive me for my shitty adjectives and vocabulary), the core of the story, the female sacredness.
The treatment of the female lead, at least to me didn't sync in with the overall core.
Like, isn't it about female sacredness, but I don't think she held a important piece in the overall picture, she either could have better role, or not needed at all, except for pushing the plot forward, the female lead was unnecessary.
And I still have some thoughts which I can't seem to verbalize, I need a proper debate or argument questioning me, to comb through my thoughts, organize them to actually feel it.
So here ends my ted-talk, .. ahem.
Ciao!
The writing style has improved.
I cannot accurately tell if it is a nice piece of literature, but it is a good story.
As I have read many non-English novels, barely translated, poorly by go*gle translate, and my sense of grammer is in shambles.
I don't even know if the english I write now is even grammatically correct...
Anyways coming to the point, the novel was interesting.
Why I said it was an improvement is that, the author now seems to know better that it is not so nice to randomly describe a woman's appearance at random times.
Like, imagine, would you describe a guy at a totally random time if he's very good looking or whatever you want.
It's not that I am saying you shouldn't, I am saying, do it at appropriate times.
Or I am not sure if I am saying this to simply criticize.
Like, I felt the first book had unnecessary descriptions of the female lead (was she actually as helpful as the one in this book, I don't remember, such miniscule in presence, just to push the plot forward)
Anyways, this book for some reason I felt nice.
Maybe it is because I hate misogyny or simply I hate male dominance or something.
The idea of female sacredness was intriguing and I was very much pulled into the idea.
I didn't even realize that this novel would have offended formal instituitions, because I am not of any european/american religions.
But it sure is famous because of that I guess.
In my opinion, the first book was more exciting, yes it had some cringey scenes, and true I said this was an upgrade, but if one only focuses on the plot, the first is nice.
DaVinci code overall attracted me, because of better writing style, at least better use of female lead, the use of idea of female sacredness, totally new stuff (I haven't heard of paganism or anything of that sort earlier, like in my place, it is normal to worship nature, and gods manifest in nature. Neither am I religious to comment on that), and the novel was grounded, like, felt down to earth (when compared to the previous).
After completely reading it, I felt many thing, I want to discuss it with real people, but sadly I don't know how to, I don't know if anyone would like think in the similar thought process as me, like, I think I felt differently than any other about the novel, maybe the author wrote it in the similar intention, I am not sure, but the straightforward meaning of the ending, I had comprehended it differently.
I felt that the protagonist worshiped the Chalice at the end not for the spirituality, but for the significance it had on the whole things it had involved in the novel, the artwork, the sacrifices, the things they had to go through was right where they begin.
Like I felt the whole experience was poetic in itself.
I don't know how to describe maybe the author could have done a better job, like with the plot with the right wordings, or with the write sequence of scenes, a better poetic end could have been brought out.
Maybe I hadn't put in much thought while reading the novel or something, but I felt it to be incomplete, like, I don't know, the end was poetic, but it could've been better, like a piece of music that fits in right with your feelings.
I'm not a mysogynist, but I feel the female lead was unnecessary here.
Call me mad, but this feeling of needing for 'romanticism', the plot additions because of her, seemed to have ruined the curious essence (forgive me for my shitty adjectives and vocabulary), the core of the story, the female sacredness.
The treatment of the female lead, at least to me didn't sync in with the overall core.
Like, isn't it about female sacredness, but I don't think she held a important piece in the overall picture, she either could have better role, or not needed at all, except for pushing the plot forward, the female lead was unnecessary.
And I still have some thoughts which I can't seem to verbalize, I need a proper debate or argument questioning me, to comb through my thoughts, organize them to actually feel it.
So here ends my ted-talk, .. ahem.
Ciao!