so....dan brown....

great premise....neat opening...a murder ...a mystery......who doesn't like that?....but quelle fromage aussi.....so much cheese..."his voice is "chocolate for the ears".....and all that.....why the phenomenon?....all of this fits very nicely with our age's questioning spirit....what is true?...who can you trust?....are institutions really what they say they are?......all of this questioning of course has a cumulative effect on society methinks.....over time, people aren't connected to anything: to church, to state, to school, to the police.........nothing......is this why there is such angst/dislocation/vague fellings of unhappiness in our prozac nation?......obviously not advocating slavish obedience to institutuions without thought or critical thinking.....but what price is paid....so back to the book....much controversy....the catholic church doesn't like it...masons don't like it ...albinos don't like it...the French...well....they don't care .....opus dei...definitely don't like it.....the cilice....what a great name for that ritual....the discipline......that would be a great name for a wrestler ....or a rapper........Paris..what a great setting.....the louvre...the eiffel tower...the bois de boulogne......smart cars.......imagine an american hero driving a smart car,,,,,,,james dean driving a smart car......the dukes of hazzard.....general lee as an envirinmentally friendly four speed....he's very coy and a little deceptive how he handles the vittoria vetra thing.....a bit swarmy.......their playful promise to meet in a romantic spot ever six months....who live like this? harvard symbolosists I guess....Harrison Ford in tweed.....Mitterand and the 666 that's weird.....pg 22 "I'm trapped in a Salvador Dali painting" that's funny.....it's all a bit far-fteched though isn't it.......makes Parisian justice sund like something they just make up......that's the first three chapters...so mcuh to think about here