http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4597133.stm

Whether or not you liked the book..I did..it is a work of fiction and has never been presented by anything other than that by its author. The thing that has me wondering if there's any truth to it is the absurd reaction of the various male-dominated churches.
"Methinks they doth protest too much"

The Da Vinci Code caused a girlfriend and me to get lost in the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. We were looking at the roses/flowers on the ceiling while our tour group kept on walking. Suddenly, they were no where to be found. It took ten minutes, a warning by the security guard to close my umbrella (which I used as a signal) and almost losing my friend, but we did manage to find the group again. And they didn't even miss us even though I had organised the whole trip for them. I guess they were caught up in the awe-inspiring church just like we were.

PatrickLondon, thanks for the website. There was so much more there than the Da Vinci code. Fantastic 360 degree pans of so many places. You might want to post the address as a seperate thread that will take people to these wonders.

I just received a fantastic present: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes.

I get a big charge out of serious attempts to figure the angle of the slug fired by Colonel Moran at the bust of Holmes that was set up as a decoy.

The point being that serious contemplation over a work of fiction is within itself amusing. I think the churches don't like the religous ideas advanced in The DaVinci code for any number of reasons.

I think the whole thing is a plot. Brown writes a book and gets rich.
It has enough errors in it that debunking it becomes the foundation for a whole new industry. Other authors get rich.

I wish I was that smart. I would enjoy the $$ or the £ or the €.

To my shame(?), jsmith, I didn't check what else was on the BBC site, I was just picking up on the item in the evening news. But I will post a separate thread on London views and photo-galleries, as I'm sure many other people will want to add their own favourites.

"Whether or not you liked the book..I did..it is a work of fiction and has never been presented by anything other than that by its author. "

Except, IIRC, there is a page before the start of the story that claims something like the geographical info and descriptions of the art is factual.

Keith

Oh Barbara, I totally agree with you about male-dominated churches. My friend used to say that if men had babies, abortion would be a sacrament.

Unless Jesus et al. were starring in a reality series with multiple cameras following all characters and absolutely no post-production editing, who knows what is fact and what is fiction?